Yuliya Gavrilova
Yuliya Petrovna Gavrilova is a Russian sabre fencer. She won two medals, as a member of the Russian team, in sabre at the 2011 World Fencing Championships in Catania, Italy.
Gavrilova represented Russia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's individual sabre event, along with her teammate Sofiya Velikaya, who eventually won a silver medal in the final. She defeated Kazakhstan's Yuliya Zhivitsa in the first preliminary round, before losing out her next match to China's Zhu Min, with a final score of 11–15.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Russian team that won gold in the women's team sabre event.
She began fencing in 1999, when Victoria Yuzhakova, a fencing coach, came to her school looking for children who wanted to try fencing.
