Timur Marselevich Safin (Russian: Тимур Марселевич Сафин, IPA: [tʲɪˈmur ˈsafʲɪn]; born 4 August 1992) is a Russian right-handed foil fencer.^[1]

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Timur Safin
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Full name	Timur Marselevich Safin
Born	(1992-08-04) 4 August 1992 (age 31) Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Nationality	Russian
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Fencing
Weapon	Foil, Sabre
Hand	Right-handed
National coach	Stefano Cerioni
Club	Central Sports Army Club [RUS] Ufa Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS]; SDYUSSHOR No.19
Head coach	Ruslan Nasibullin, Lira Grushina
FIE ranking	current ranking
Medal record Men's fencing Representing ROC Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team foil Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team foil 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual foil World Championships 2014 Kazan Individual foil 2018 Wuxi Team foil European Championships 2018 Novi Sad Team foil 2016 Toruń Individual foil 2016 Toruń Team foil 2017 Tbilisi Individual foil 2017 Tbilisi Team foil 2014 Strasbourg Team foil European Games 2015 Baku Team foil Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Individual foil 2019 Wuhan Team foil 2019 Wuhan Team sabre

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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.

Safin, who is of Tatar descent,^[2] took up fencing when he was nine years old after a coach came to make a presentation at his school.^[3] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]