Lyubov Andreyevna Shutova (russian: Любовь Андреевна Шутова; born 25 June 1983) is a Russian fencer, World champion in 2009 and team World champion in 2013 and 2014. Bronze medallist of a team event at 2016 Summer Olympics in

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Personal life

Shutova took up fencing at the age of twelve after being invited to watch a training session at her local club. She trained under the direction of Sergey Dovgosheya, a friend of her parents, who she describes as a second father and who remained her personal coach as of 2014. Shutova married sports journalist Nikolay Lukinskiy. They have a daughter, Anastasia and a son, Fedor.

Career

Shutova joined the national team for the 1998 World Youth Games in Moscow. In 2000, she earned a silver medal at the Junior European Championships in Antalya. The same year she won a team gold medal at the Junior World Championships in

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, Indiana, in the United States. In the senior category Shutova earned a bronze medal in the 2002 European Championships in Moscow. She climbed her first

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podium with a silver medal in the 2008 Nanjing Grand Prix. The same year she competed at the Beijing Olympics in Women's épée and reached the quarter-finals, where she was stopped by eventual silver medal

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of Romania. In the 2008–09 season Shutova won her first World Cup title in Saint-Maur. At the

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in Antalya she edged out France's

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in the quarter-final, then prevailed over

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of Ukraine to meet Canada's

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in the final. After a tight match Shutova struck the decisive hit on priority and won Russia's first World title in women's épée. She finished the season World No.6, a career best as of 2014. In the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the second round by Ukraine's

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team event Russia prevailed over Ukraine, then met No.3 seed China in the semi-finals.

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eventually gave China the victory in overtime. Russia then fenced the United States in the match for bronze. Shutova entered her last relay with the score tied at 23, but was outscored 2–4 by

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she reached the quarter-finals, where she was defeated by France's

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. In the team event No.1 seed Russia met Romania in the final. Shutova entered the last leg on a tie, but

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struck four hits in a row to give Romania the lead in the last minute of the match. Shutova launched into a series of flèches, to no avail: Russia was defeated 38–34 and came away with a silver medal. At the

in Kazan, Shutova was defeated in the first round by Korea's

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. In the team event, Russia prevailed narrowly over South Korea in the quarter-finals, then beat Hungary and Estonia in the final to win the gold medal.

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