Yuliya Biryukova
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![]() Biryukova at the 2014 European Fencing Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Yuliya Sergeeva Biryukova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Kurchatov, Kursk Oblast, Russia | 17 March 1985|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon | Foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach | Stefano Cerioni | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal coach | Ildar Mavlyutov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yuliya Sergeeva Biryukova (Russian: Юлия Сергеевна Бирюкова; born 17 March 1985) is a Russian foil fencer.
Biography
[edit]Biryukova took up fencing at the age of six in her native Kurchatov. She won the gold medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok.[citation needed]
In the senior category, she climbed her first World Cup podium in the 2008–09 season with a silver medal in Gdańsk. She won a team silver medal at the European Championships in Plovdiv. At the World Championships in Antalya she was defeated in the quarter-finals by team-mate Aida Shanayeva, who eventually won the gold medal. In the team event Russia stumbled against Italy in the final and came away with another silver medal.[citation needed]
Biryukova took an individual bronze medal and a team silver medal in the 2011 Summer Universiade, and another team silver in the 2013 edition. The same year, she won a team bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest. In the 2013–14 season she won her first major individual title with a bronze medal at the European Championships in Strasbourg. She went on to win a second world team silver medal in the World Championships at home in Moscow.[citation needed]
External links
[edit]- Yulia Biryukova at the International Fencing Federation
- Julia Birioukova at the European Fencing Confederation (archive)
- Julia Biryukova at the Russian Fencing Federation (in Russian) (in English) (archive)
- Russian female foil fencers
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- Living people
- 1985 births
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Russia
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Russia
- Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from Kursk Oblast
- 21st-century Russian sportswomen