SAFIN Timur

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3	1

World Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	21	4
2018	Wuxi, CHN	10	3
2017	Leipzig, GER	9	4
2014	Kazan, RUS	3	4

European Championships

Year	Location	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019	Dusseldorf, GER	11	4
2018	Novi Sad, SRB	24	1
2017	Tbilisi, GEO	2	2

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual	Foil Team
2019/2020	1 x 11th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 34th	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th
2018/2019	1 x 5th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 10th	1 x 1st, 1 x 4th, 2 x 7th
2017/2018	1 x 5th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 34th	2 x 4th, 1 x 5th
2016/2017	1 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 9th	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Foil Individual
2019/2020	1 x 34th
2018/2019	1 x 3rd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 19th
2017/2018	2 x 2nd, 1 x 5th
2016/2017	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 17th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2018/2019	Foil Team	World Cup	Paris, FRA
1	2016/2017	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Long Beach, CA, USA
1	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Tokyo, JPN
2	2017/2018	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Shanghai, CHN
2	2017/2018	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Turin, ITA
2	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	Paris, FRA
2	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	St. Petersburg, RUS
3	2019/2020	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER
3	2018/2019	Foil Individual	Grand Prix	Shanghai, CHN
3	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	St. Petersburg, RUS
3	2016/2017	Foil Individual	World Cup	Bonn, GER
3	2016/2017	Foil Team	World Cup	Bonn, GER

Snowboarding, spending time in nature. (srsly.ru, 28 Sep 2020)

Armed Forces Athlete

Physical Education - Ural State University of Physical Education, Ufa, RUS

Russian

Central Sports Army Club [RUS] / Ufa Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS]

Ilgar Mamedov [national], RUS; Ruslan Nasibullin [national, personal], RUS; Lira Grushina [personal], RUS

Right (rusfencing.ru, 25 Jan 2021)

He began fencing in 2001 in Ufa, Russian Federation. (Athlete, 02 Jul 2015)

"I was in the third grade [at school] and my first coaches Farit Arslanov and Vil Nagimov came to our class. They began talking about fencing. At that time it was something new, interesting and unusual. And just in these years this film ['The Three Musketeers'] was played on all the TV channels. I was immediately inspired and wanted to try it, since all the other guys were already playing football and hockey and I did not want to be in that crowd." (cska.ru, 05 Dec 2019)

To win individual gold at the Olympic Games. (Athlete, 30 Jun 2017)

Winning gold in team foil at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (srsly.ru, 28 Sep 2020)

"Never give up and always go forward." (cska.ru, 05 Dec 2019)

He received the Order of Friendship from the president of the Russian Federation in recognition of the gold medal he won at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (kremlin.ru, 25 Aug 2016)

In 2016 he received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (rusfencing.ru, 21 Feb 2020; minsport.gov.ru, 08 Aug 2016)