Yekaterina Dyachenko

Who is Yekaterina Dyachenko?

Yekaterina Vladimirovna Dyachenko is a Russian sabre fencer. Dyachenko represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in two sabre events. She is also the sister of Aleksey Dyachenko, who won the bronze medal as a member of the Russian team in the men's team sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

For her first event, the women's individual sabre, Dyachenko first defeated Japan's Madoka Hisagae in the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out her next match to Ukraine's Olena Khomrova, with a sudden death score of 14–15. Few days later, she joined with her fellow fencers and teammates Ekaterina Fedorkina, Elena Nechaeva and Sofiya Velikaya for the women's team sabre. Dyachenko and her team won the fifth place match against the Polish team, with a total score of 45 touches.