Maria Mazina

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Russia
Women's fencing
Bronze	Atlanta 1996	Team épée
Gold	Sydney 2000	Team épée

Medal record
Maccabiah Games
Gold	2001 Israel	Individual Women's Épée

Maria Mazina (born April 18, 1964) is a Russian women's épée fencer.

Fencing career

Mazina began fencing at the age of 12.

Mazina, who is Jewish, is a 5-time world women's épée champion.[1]

Olympics

She won a team bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics.[2] Mazina and her teammates defeated Hungary in the third-place match (45–44) to capture the bronze medal.

Mazina also won a gold medal in the Sydney Olympics in team épée in 2000.[3][4][5] Russia defeated Switzerland, 45–35, in the final. In the individual épée competition, Mazina was eliminated in the third round by Margherita Zalaffi of Italy (13–15).

Maccabiah Games

Mazina won a gold medal in the 2001 Maccabiah Games.[6]

Miscellaneous

Mazina lives in Moscow.

Mazina is an instructor at Maccabi Moscow, of which she has been a member since 1995 when it was first organized, and visited Israel one Hannukah in a Maccabi program.

She also enjoys tennis and billiards.

See also

• List of select Jewish fencers

Link

• Jewish Sports Review article
• Jews in Sports bio

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