Irina Embrich

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox fencer Irina Embrich, née Zamkovaja (born 12 July 1980) is an Estonian left-handed épée fencer.[1] Embrich is the 2024 individual European champion, a two-time team European champion, and a 2017 team world champion. A two-time Olympian, Embrich is a 2021 team Olympic champion.

Embrich competed in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.[2]

Biography

Embrich's first sport was gymnastics, but she resented the hard discipline of the Soviet era.[3] She later took to rhythmic gymnastics and then fencing under coach Samuil Kaminski.[3] She ranked 20th then 12th at the cadet World championships in 1996 and 1998, but snatched the bronze medal at the junior event in 1999.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

After high school, Embrich studied chemistry at the Tallinn University of Technology.[3] In 2004 her coach left Estonia for Norway. Épée champion Nikolai Novosjolov, who is the same age as her, accepted to train her under an equal footing more than a student-master relationship.[3] The same year she married a fellow student and gave birth in 2005 to a daughter, Maria.[3] She went on in her fencing career and won the silver medal at the épée 2006 World Fencing Championships after losing the final 15–11 versus Tímea Nagy,[4] and then the bronze medal in 2007. She was named Estonian Sportswoman of the Year 2007 for these performances.

In the 2012–13 season, she took a bronze medal at the World Cup events of Leipzig and Saint-Maur and won the team gold medal with Estonia in the European Championships in Zagreb. She ranked 10th in the World Championships in Budapest after she lost her T16 bout against Emese Szász, who eventually took a bronze medal.

In the 2013–14 season, she placed second at the Budapest Grand Prix after being defeated 7–15 in the final by world no.1 Ana Maria Brânză. This result helped her reach the 4th place in world rankings. At the 2014 European Championships at Strasbourg, she was stopped in the table of 32 by World No. 1 Emese Szász. In the team event, Estonia were defeated by Russia in the semi-final, then by Italy and finished fourth. At the 2014 World Championships in Kazan, Embrich reached the quarter-finals, defeating World No. 2 Ana Brânză along the way. She was then defeated by Italy's Rossella Fiamingo, who eventually won the gold medal.

Medal record

Olympic Games

Year Location Event Position
2021 Template:Flagicon Tokyo, Japan Team Women's Épée 1st[5]

World Championship

Year Location Event Position
2006 Template:Flagicon Turin, Italy Individual Women's Épée 2nd[6]
2007 Template:Flagicon St. Petersburg, Russia Individual Women's Épée 3rd[7]
2014 Template:Flagicon Kazan, Russia Team Women's Épée 2nd[8]
2017 Template:Flagicon Leipzig, Germany Team Women's Épée 1st[9]

European Championship

Year Location Event Position
2007 Template:Flagicon Ghent, Belgium Individual Women's Épée 3rd[10]
2012 Template:Flagicon Legnano, Italy Team Women's Épée 3rd[11]
2013 Template:Flagicon Zagreb, Croatia Team Women's Épée 1st[12]
2015 Template:Flagicon Montreux, Switzerland Team Women's Épée 2nd[13]
2016 Template:Flagicon Toruń, Poland Team Women's Épée 1st[14]
2018 Template:Flagicon Novi Sad, Serbia Team Women's Épée 3rd[15]
2024 Template:Flagicon Basel, Switzerland Individual Women's Épée 1st[16]

Grand Prix

Year Location Event Position
2014-02-01 Template:Flagicon Budapest, Hungary Individual Women's Épée 2nd[17]
2020-03-06 Template:Flagicon Budapest, Hungary Individual Women's Épée 3rd[18]

World Cup

Date Location Event Position
2012-06-29 Template:Flagicon Leipzig, Germany Individual Women's Épée 2nd[19]
2013-02-08 Template:Flagicon Leipzig, Germany Individual Women's Épée 3rd[20]
2013-03-01 Template:Flagicon Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France Individual Women's Épée 3rd[21]
2015-11-13 Template:Flagicon Nanjing, China Individual Women's Épée 3rd[22]
2016-02-12 Template:Flagicon Buenos Aires, Argentina Individual Women's Épée 2nd[23]
2016-10-21 Template:Flagicon Tallinn, Estonia Individual Women's Épée 3rd[24]
2017-01-20 Template:Flagicon Barcelona, Spain Individual Women's Épée 2nd[25]

References

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Awards
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2007 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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