Anna Bashta
Anna Vitalievna Bashta is a Russian-born Azerbaijani fencer. She won the silver medal in the 2022 [World">Fencing World Cup">2022 [World Fencing Championships|women's sabre] event at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Fencing at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Women's sabre|Women's sabre]. She has been ranked #1 in the world in women's sabre in 2022.
Career
She won one gold medal and one silver at the 2015 Summer Universiade. She represented Russia until 2018; in 2019 she switched nationality and began competing for Azerbaijan.Bashta claimed a spot in the sabre events as the winner of Zonal Qualifier – Europe which was held in Madrid, Spain. She beat Anna Limbach of Germany in the final 15-13 to qualify for the Fencing at the [2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Olympics] in Tokyo, Japan.
She won the gold medal in the women's sabre event at the 2022 [European Fencing Championships] held in Antalya, Turkey.