Lyubov Shutova

Lyubov Andreyevna Shutova (; born 25 June 1983) is a Russian fencer, World champion in 2009 and team World champion in 2013 and 2014. Bronze medallist of a team event at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Personal life Shutova took up fencing at the age of twelve after being invited to watch a training session at her local club. She trained under the direction of Sergey Dovgosheya, a friend of her parents, who she describes as a second father and who remained her personal coach as of 2014.

Shutova married sports journalist Nikolay Lukinskiy. They have a daughter, Anastasia and a son, Fedor. She finished the season World No.6, a career best as of 2014.

In the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was defeated in the second round by Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina, who eventually won the gold medal. In the team event Russia prevailed over Ukraine, then met No.3 seed China in the semi-finals. Sun Yi eventually gave China the victory in overtime. Russia then fenced the United States in the match for bronze. Shutova entered her last relay with the score tied at 23, but was outscored 2–4 by Maya Lawrence. Russia exited the competition with no medal. At the World Championships in Kazan, Shutova was defeated in the first round by Korea's Choi Eun-sook. In the team event, Russia prevailed narrowly over South Korea in the quarter-finals, then beat Hungary and Estonia in the final to win the gold medal.