Inna Deriglazova

In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisVasilyevnaand thefamily nameisDeriglazova.

Inna Deriglazova
Deriglazova at the2013 World Fencing Championships
Personal information
Full name	Inna Vasilyevna Deriglazova
Born	(1990-03-10)10 March 1990 Kurchatov,Kursk Oblast,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Weapon	Foil
Hand	Right-handed
National coach	vacant
Club	CSKA Moscow
Head coach	vacant
FIEranking	13current ranking
Medal record Women'sfencing RepresentingROC Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team foil 2020 Tokyo Individual foil RepresentingRussia Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Individual foil 2012 London Team foil World Championships 2011 Catania Team foil 2015 Moscow Individual foil 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team foil 2017 Leipzig Individual foil 2019 Budapest Individual foil 2019 Budapest Team foil 2014 Kazan Team foil 2015 Moscow Team foil 2013 Budapest Individual foil 2013 Budapest Team foil 2017 Leipzig Team foil European Championships 2012 Legnano Individual foil 2016 Toruń Team foil 2018 Novi Sad Individual foil 2019 Düsseldorf Team foil 2011 Sheffield Team foil 2014 Strasbourg Team foil 2015 Montreaux Team foil 2017 Tbilisi Individual foil 2017 Tbilisi Team foil 2018 Novi Sad Team foil 2019 Düsseldorf Individual foil 2010 Leipzig Team foil 2010 Leipzig Individual foil 2012 Legnano Team foil Military World Games 2019 Wuhan Individual foil 2019 Wuhan Team foil Summer Universiade 2013 Kazan Individual foil 2013 Kazan Team foil

Inna Vasilyevna Deriglazova(Russian:Инна Васильевна Дериглазова,IPA:[ˈinːədʲɪrʲɪˈɡɫazəvə];born 10 March 1990) is a Russian right-handedfoilfencer.

Deriglazova is a two-time team and two-time individual European champion, and three-time team and three-time individual world champion. A three-timeOlympian,Deriglazova is a 2012 team Olympic silver medalist, 2021 team Olympic champion, 2021 individual Olympic silver medalist, and 2016 individual Olympic champion. Deriglazova competed in the2012 London Olympic Games,the2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games,and the2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career

Vladimir Putinand Deriglazova, 2021.

Deriglazova began fencing at the age of 8 in hometownKurchatov.She underwent training under Ildar Mavlyutov. Despite her diminutive frame as a child, she became accustomed to fencing athletes much older than herself.She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Cadet World Championships inTaebaek,followed a year later by the gold medal in the individual and team events at the Cadet World Championships inNovi Sad.The same year, she took the bronze medal in the Junior World Championships at Prague. She became Junior World Champion in Amsterdam in 2008.

Shortly after her world title, Deriglazova married and gave birth to a daughter, Diana. She stopped training just a week before delivery and went back to the piste two weeks afterwards.Two months after giving birth, she earned the silver medal in the Russian national championship.A year after, in 2010, she took the gold in the individual and team event of the Junior World Championships in Baku.The same year, she joined the senior national team and took a bronze medal in the individual and team events of the seniorEuropean Championshipsin Leipzig.

Deriglazova climbed her firstWorld Cuppodium in 2011 with a silver medal in Tauberbischofsheim. She was stopped by Korea'sNam Hyun-heein the table of 16 of the2011 World Championshipsin Catania. In theteam event,Russia defeated France in the quarter-finals, then Korea to meet the Italian "Dream Team". Russia lost and were doomed to a silver medal. At the2012 European Championshipsshe defeated reigning Olympic silver medallistArianna Errigoin the semi-finals and prevailed over teammateKamilla Gafurzianovato earn her first senior individual title.For her Olympic début atLondon 2012,she was defeated 8–15 in the second round of theindividual eventby France's Ysaora Thibus.In theteam eventRussia got the best of Japan, then of South Korea. They met No.1 rivals Italy in the final. Deriglazova opened the match against five-time Olympic championValentina Vezzaliand was defeated 2–5. Her teammates could not contain Italy either and Russia were eventually defeated 31–45.

Deriglazova was left extremely frustrated by her Olympic experience and resolved to train harder under the new direction ofStefano Cerioni,former coach of the Italian foil teams.During the2012–13 seasonshe won her first World Cup title at Budapest, followed by three other victories in Saint-Petersbourg, Tauberbischofsheim and Seoul. Her ambitions for the2013 European Championshipsin Zagreb were however cut short in the first round of the individual event by World No.88Anastasiya Moskovska.In the team event, Russia were defeated by France in the semi-finals, then by Hungary in the match for the bronze medal, and came away with no medal. Deriglazova bounced back by taking the gold medal at the2013 Summer Universiadeafter defeating teammateLarisa Korobeynikovain the final.At theWorld Championshipsin Budapest Deriglazova made her way to the semi-finals, where she was defeated 15–11 by Arianna Errigo and took the bronze medal. In theteam event,Russia were defeated by France in the semi-finals, but prevailed over South Korea to earn the bronze medal.

In the pre-Olympic season of 2015, Deriglazova climbed the podium three times at the World Cups, winning bronze medals in Saint-More, Algeria andTauberbischofsheim(defeats to Lee Kiefer and twice to Errigo in the semifinals). She also lost twice in the finals of the Grand Prix stages in Havana and Shanghai to Di Francisca, but at the World Championships in Moscow, she interrupted a series of failures by defeating Kiefer in 1/4, Errigo in the semifinals and compatriot Aida Shanaeva in the final, and won the first individual gold medal.

In the Olympic season, she won silver inTurin(lost to Volpi), bronze inGdansk(lost to Errigo) and Algeria (lost to Batini), and gold at the last stage in Tauberbischofsheim, defeating Errigo in the final. At the games in Rio, Deriglazova became the Olympic champion, defeating Di Francisca 12:11 in the final.

At the 2019 European Championship in Germany, she lost the final to ItalianElisa Di Franciscaand won a silver medal. Three days later she helped the Russian national team win the team championship. However, in the semifinals of the World Championship, she won her third title in individual competitions at the World Championships, defeating FrenchwomanPauline Ranvierin the final match. In the team championship, she also became the world champion.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in July 2021, Deriglazova was the favorite in the individual championship, but won only silver, losing to AmericanLee Kieferin the final. A few days later she won gold in the team tournament.

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Event	Position
2012	London,United Kingdom	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2016	Rio de Janeiro,Brazil	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2021	Tokyo,Japan	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
2021	Tokyo,Japan	Team Women's Foil	1st

World Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2011	Catania,Italy	Team Women's Foil	1st
2013	Budapest,Hungary	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
2013	Budapest,Hungary	Team Women's Foil	3rd
2014	Kazan,Russia	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2015	Moscow,Russia	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2015	Moscow,Russia	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2016	Rio de Janeiro,Brazil	Team Women's Foil	1st
2017	Leipzig,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2017	Leipzig,Germany	Team Women's Foil	3rd
2019	Budapest,Hungary	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2019	Budapest,Hungary	Team Women's Foil	1st

European Championship

Year	Location	Event	Position
2010	Leipzig,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
2010	Leipzig,Germany	Team Women's Foil	3rd
2011	Sheffield,United Kingdom	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2012	Legnano,Italy	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2012	Legnano,Italy	Team Women's Foil	3rd
2014	Strasbourg,France	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2015	Montreux,Switzerland	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2016	Toruń,Poland	Team Women's Foil	1st
2017	Tbilisi,Georgia	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
2017	Tbilisi,Georgia	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2018	Novi Sad,Serbia	Individual Women's Foil	1st
2018	Novi Sad,Serbia	Team Women's Foil	2nd
2019	Düsseldorf,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
2019	Düsseldorf,Germany	Team Women's Foil	1st

Grand Prix

Date	Location	Event	Position
04/27/2013	Seoul,South Korea	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/23/2014	Marseille,France	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
03/13/2015	Havana,Cuba	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
05/15/2015	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
11/27/2015	Turin,Italy	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
03/17/2017	Long Beach,California	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
05/19/2017	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
12/01/2017	Turin,Italy	Individual Women's Foil	1st
03/17/2018	Anaheim,California	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/18/2018	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	1st
03/16/2019	Anaheim,California	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/17/2019	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	1st
02/07/2020	Turin,Italy	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
03/26/2021	Doha,Qatar	Individual Women's Foil	1st

World Cup

Date	Location	Event	Position
02/11/2011	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
02/08/2013	Budapest,Hungary	Individual Women's Foil	1st
03/01/2013	St. Petersburg,Russia	Individual Women's Foil	1st
03/08/2013	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/03/2013	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
02/26/2014	St. Petersburg,Russia	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
03/21/2014	Turin,Italy	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/02/2014	Shanghai,China	Individual Women's Foil	2nd
11/07/2014	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,France	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
02/06/2015	Algier,Algeria	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
05/01/2015	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
01/15/2016	Gdańsk,Poland	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
02/05/2016	Algier,Algeria	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
05/20/2016	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	1st
11/04/2016	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,France	Individual Women's Foil	1st
04/28/2017	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
01/12/2018	Katowice,Poland	Individual Women's Foil	1st
02/02/2018	Algier,Algeria	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
04/27/2018	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	1st
11/23/2018	Algier,Algeria	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
01/11/2019	Katowice,Poland	Individual Women's Foil	1st
01/25/2019	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,France	Individual Women's Foil	1st
03/01/2019	Cairo,Egypt	Individual Women's Foil	1st
05/03/2019	Tauberbischofsheim,Germany	Individual Women's Foil	1st
12/13/2019	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés,France	Individual Women's Foil	3rd
01/10/2020	Katowice,Poland	Individual Women's Foil	1st

External links

• Inna Deriglazovaat theInternational Fencing Federation
• Inna Deriglazovaat theEuropean Fencing Confederation
• Inna Deriglazovaat theRussian Fencing Federation(in Russian)(in English)
• Inna DeriglazovaatOlympics.com
• Inna DeriglazovaatOlympics at Sports-Reference.com(archived)