Who is Inna Deriglazova?

 Inna Deriglazova

Inna Vasilyevna Deriglazova is a fencing athlete. Deriglazova began fencing at the age of 8 in hometown Kurchatov. She underwent training guided by Ildar Mavylyutov. Despite her small frame as a child, She has become accustomed to fencing athletes much older than herself. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Cadet World Championships in Taebak, followed a year later by the gold medal in the individual and team events at the Cadet World Championships in Novi Sad. The same year, she took the bronze medal in the Junior World Championships at Prague. She became Junior World Champion in Amsterdam in 2008. She got a lot of achievements. Shortly after her world title, Deriglazova married and gave birth to a daughter, Diana. She stopped training for a while. Deriglazova opened the match against five-time Olympic champion Valentina Vezzali and was defeated 2–5. Her teammates could not contain Italy either and Russia were eventually defeated 31–45.

Deriglazova was left extremely frustrated by her Olympic experience and resolved to train harder under the new direction of Stefano Cerioni former coach of the Italian foil teams. During the 2012-2013 season she won her first World Cup title at Budapest, followed by three other victories in Saint-Petersbourg, Tauberbischofsheim and Seoul.