Yana Shemyakina
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| Full name | Yana Volodymyrivna Shemyakina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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5 January 1986 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Weapon(s) | épée | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Lviv | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal coach(es) | Andriy Orlikovsky, Oleg Lopatenko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yana Volodymyrivna Shemyakina (Ukrainian: Яна Володимирівна Шемякіна; born 5 January 1986) is a Ukrainian épée fencer, Olympic champion at the 2012 Summer Olympics, bronze medallist at the 2014 World Championships and European champion in 2005.
Shemyakina was born and raised in Lviv, Ukraine. She is the second of a family of three children: she has a brother six years older than her, Vladimir, and a sister, Lyubov. Her family was not particularly into sports: her brother had tried a few swimming lessons, but did not get into it. Shemyakina first tried ski at the age of nine. At the end of a lesson, after a few months' training, she attempted a harder downhill course than she was used to, fell and broke her leg. Her absence had gone unnoticed and she stayed alone in the snow for a long time, almost freezing, before she was found by chance and taken to the hospital.
After Shemyakina recovered from her skiing accident, a friend suggested that she try fencing. She began training under Andriy Orlikovsky, who remains her coach as of 2015[update], and quickly took to the sport. She soon showed talent, winning the 2002 Cadet World Championships in Antalya. Her parents were doubtful at first of their daughter's sport ambitions, as they did not believe she could make a living off it, but her coach encouraged her to go on. She went on to earn a silver medal at the 2003 and 2005 Junior Fencing Championships.
Shemyakina began fencing in the senior category in the 2002–03 season. She climbed the podium at her second World Cup event with a bronze medal in Katowice. This result had her selected into the senior national team at the age of seventeen for the 2003 World Fencing Championships. She created a surprise at the 2005 European Championships by reaching the final after defeating Romania's Iuliana Măceșeanu. She then prevailed over Hungary's Hajnalka Tóth to win her first major title.
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