Svetlana Sheveleva

Svetlana Sheveleva (born 26 January 1997) is a left-handed Russian fencer. She won the Russian women's sabre championship final in 2018.

Life Sheveleva was born in Moscow in 1997. She tried several sports but they did not appeal. At the suggestion of her mother she took up fencing at the age of ten.

In 2016 she travelled to Bourges in France where she was the best at individual sabre in the World Junior Championships.

She was coached by Rustam Mansurovich Karimov

In 2018 she met Alina Mikhailova in the Russian sabre championship final where Sheveleva won with a score of 15:10. She surprised commentators who had expected Sofya Velikaya, Yulia Gavrilova or Yana Yegoryan to be in the final. After the victory she was ranked 3rd in Russia.