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Sofya Velikaya
Sofya Velikaya became the most decorated saber fencer in Olympic history among women, winning Olympic gold in the team saber event across multiple Games and adding an individual gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics after two previous Olympics in which she'd won individual silver medals. Her combined tally of world championship titles across individual and team saber events places her among the most consistently dominant fencers of her generation, competing at the top of Russian saber fencing, historically one of the deepest national programs in the discipline, for well over a decade. Velikaya's individual gold at the 2016 Rio Games came after two consecutive Olympic finals losses in 2008 and 2012, a pattern of near-misses at the individual level that made her eventual breakthrough win particularly significant relative to her already substantial team and world championship achievements. Her sustained excellence across both individual and team saber competition throughout the 2010s, combined with Russia's broader historical strength in saber fencing, established Velikaya as one of the defining figures of women's saber during an era when the discipline's competitive depth was arguably at its highest point.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti
Edoardo Mangiarotti won 13 Olympic medals across foil and épée competition spanning five Olympics from 1936 to 1960, a combined total that stood as the record for most Olympic fencing medals by any competitor for more than five decades, until Valentina Vezzali's later career began approaching his statistical dominance. His career, interrupted for six years by World War II, spanned an unusually long competitive window even accounting for the wartime gap, and Mangiarotti's ambidextrous ability to compete effectively left-handed despite being naturally right-handed gave him a tactical advantage that opponents found difficult to prepare for. Mangiarotti won gold medals in both individual and team events across his career, reflecting an all-around excellence in épée specifically that made him one of the most complete fencers of his generation, competing at the top level across multiple decades of significant changes in equipment, scoring technology, and competitive format. His combined medal total and the sheer length of his competitive career — spanning the pre-war, wartime-interrupted, and post-war eras of Olympic competition — make Mangiarotti one of the most statistically significant fencers in Olympic history, and Italian fencing's continued strength through the mid-20th century owed substantially to his sustained individual dominance.
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