Veniamin Reshetnikov

He then defeated Vincent Anstett, Rareș Dumitrescu, Aldo Montano, Dmitry Lapkes, Gianpiero Pastore, and finally Julien Pillet to win the gold medal.

[8] The 2010–11 season was a dry spell for Reshetnikov, whose best individual result was a quarter-final lost 14–15 against Gu Bon-gil at the World Championships in Catania.

With the team, he won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Sheffield and Russia kept their World title after beating Belarus 45–29 in the final.

[15] Two weeks later, despite tonsillitis, Reshetnikov took part in the 2013 Summer Universiade at Kazan where he took a bronze medal after teammate Aleksey Yakimenko defeated him in the semi-finals.

At the World Championships in Budapest, No.8 seed Reshetnikov disposed of Germany's Max Hartung in the quarter-finals, then of Romania's Tiberiu Dolniceanu.

He fenced teammate and friend Kovalev in the first all-Russian final in the major event since the Stanislav Pozdnyakov v Sergey Sharikov duel in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

After a very tight match, Reshetnikov was poised for the win on 43–44 in the last relay, but Italy's Luigi Samele struck two hits in a row to snatch the gold medal from Russia.

[18] In the World Championships in Kazan, Reshetnikov suffered front leg and back injuries and was defeated in the second round by Korea's Won Woo-young and could not defend his title.

Reshetnikov (L) attacks Nikolay Kovalev in the final of the 2013 World Championships
Team Russia on the 2013 Worlds podium (from L to R Kovalev, Reshetnikov, Ibragimov and Yakimenko)