Timur Safin
{{Short description|Russian fencer (born 1992)}}
{{family name hatnote|Marselevich|Safin|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox fencer
| name = Timur Safin
| image = Timur Safin CIP 2015 quals t164807.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Safin in 2015
| full_name = Timur Marselevich Safin
| nationality = {{flagicon|RUS}} Russian
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|8|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbekistan
| residence = Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia
| height = 1.82 m
| weight = 82 kg
| country = {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
| hand = Right-handed
| club =
- Central Sports Army Club [RUS]
- Ufa Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS]; SDYUSSHOR No.19
| natlcoach = Stefano Cerioni
| headcoach = Ruslan Nasibullin, Lira Grushina
| retired =
| fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/25212 current ranking]
| show-medals =
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's fencing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{flagicon|RUS|roc-olympics}} ROC }}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalSilver|2020 Tokyo |Team foil}}
{{MedalCountry|{{RUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Team foil}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Rio de Janeiro|Individual foil}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Kazan|Individual foil}}
{{MedalBronze|2018 Wuxi|Team foil}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2018 Novi Sad|Team foil}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Toruń|Individual foil}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Toruń|Team foil}}
{{MedalSilver|2017 Tbilisi|Individual foil}}
{{MedalSilver|2017 Tbilisi|Team foil}}
{{MedalBronze|2014 Strasbourg|Team foil}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Games}}
{{MedalBronze|2015 Baku|Team foil}}
{{MedalCompetition|Military World Games}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Wuhan|Individual foil}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Wuhan|Team foil}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Wuhan|Team sabre}}
}}
Timur Marselevich Safin ({{lang-rus|Тимур Марселевич Сафин||tʲɪˈmur ˈsafʲɪn}}; born 4 August 1992) is a Russian right-handed foil fencer.{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/athletes/25212|access-date=2021-04-21|website=FIE.org}}
He is a two-time team European champion and 2016 individual European champion. A two-time Olympian, Safin is a 2021 team Olympic silver medalist, 2016 team Olympic champion, and 2016 individual Olympic bronze medalist. His clubs are the Central Sports Army Club [RUS], and the Ufa Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve.
Career
Safin, who is of Tatar descent,[http://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/320377 «Не только башкиры, уже и узбеки тянут на себя!»: как у татар «отбирают» чемпионов Рио] took up fencing when he was nine years old after a coach came to make a presentation at his school.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpik.ru/content/news/211442/|script-title=ru:Победитель Первенства мира по фехтованию-2012 Тимур Сафин|work=Olimpik.ru|date=10 April 2012|language=Russian|access-date=3 February 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924055822/http://www.olimpik.ru/content/news/211442/|url-status=dead}} He specialized in foil, joining the junior Russian team in 2009. He earned an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the 2011 U23 European Championships in Kazan. He won a team silver medal in the 2012 Junior European Championships and was crowned Junior World champion the same year in Moscow.
In the senior category, he made his breakthrough in the 2013–14 season. He won the Challenge Revenu after defeating in the final team Olympic champion Andrea Baldini.{{cite news|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/espace-premium/seine-et-marne-77/la-russie-triomphe-14-04-2014-3766263.php|title=La Russie triomphe|newspaper=Le Parisien|date=14 April 2014|language=French}} At the 2014 European Championships in Strasbourg, he was defeated in the table of 16 by eventual gold winner James-Andrew Davis, and in the team event he helped Russia conquer a bronze medal. In the 2014 World Championships in Kazan he made his way to the semifinals, defeating along the way German champion Peter Joppich. He lost by a single hit to world no.1 Ma Jianfei of China and came away with a bronze medal. For this performance he was named breakthrough of the year by the Russian Fencing Federation.{{cite web|url=http://www.bashinform.ru/news/677294/|script-title=ru:Уфимский рапирист Тимур Сафин завоевал приз во всероссийской номинации «Прорыв года»|date=20 November 2014|work=BashInform.ru|language=Russian}}
File:Baldini v Safin Challenge International de Paris 2013 ts155457.jpg.]]
Medal record
= Olympic Games =
| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
!Year !Location !Event !Position |
| 2016
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |Individual Men's Foil | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2016/244?tab=results|access-date=2021-04-21|website=FIE.org}} |
| 2016
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |Team Men's Foil |
| 2021
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan |Team Men's Foil | bgcolor="silver" |2nd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2021/250|access-date=2021-08-11|website=FIE.org}} |
= World Championship =
| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
!Year !Location !Event !Position |
| 2014
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|RUS}} Kazan, Russia |Individual Men's Foil | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/244?tab=results|access-date=2021-04-21|website=FIE.org}} |
| 2018
| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CHN}} Wuxi, China |Team Men's Foil | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd{{Cite web|title=INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/250?tab=results|access-date=2021-04-21|website=FIE.org}} |
= European Championship =
= Grand Prix =
= World Cup =
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{FIE|25212}}
- {{EFC|00002398}} ([https://archive.today/20160812101637/http://www.eurofencing.info/athletes/biography/timur-safin archive])
- {{FFR|181355}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140808062934/http://www.rusfencing.ru/cntnt/sbornye_ko/files31/profajly/timur_safi.html archive])
- {{Olympic Channel|timur-safin}}
- {{SR/Olympics profile|sa/timur-safin-1}}
{{Footer Olympic Champions Fencing Men Team Foil}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Safin, Timur}}
Category:Russian male foil fencers
Category:Sportspeople from Tashkent
Category:Fencers at the 2015 European Games
Category:European Games medalists in fencing
Category:European Games bronze medalists for Russia
Category:Olympic medalists in fencing
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic fencers for Russia
Category:Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes
Category:Tatar people of Russia
Category:Military World Games gold medalists for Russia