Aleksey Andreyevich Yakimenko is a Russian sabre fencer, eight-time team world champion, eleven-time European champion, and team bronze medallist in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He won the Fencing World Cup series three times, with fifteen titles to his name, and earned five gold medals in the Universiade.
Yakimenko at the 2014 European Fencing Championships
Yakimenko (L) attacks Daryl Homer in the final of the 2015 World Championships
Yakimenko (R) with teammates at the 2013 World Championships
Nikolay Anatolyevich Kovalev is a Russian former sabre fencer. He won a bronze medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and a gold medal in the 2014 World Championships in Kazan. He is three-times World team champion and twice European team champion. He is now a coach in California in the United States.
Nikolay Kovalev stands on podium after winning gold at 2014 Kazan World Championships.
Kovalev (R) attacks Áron Szilágyi (L) of Hungary in the semi-finals of the 2013 World Fencing Championships