Tan Xue
World sabre champion · Two-time Olympic silver medalist
Tan Xue is one of the great sabre fencers of her generation.
Born in Tianjin, China, in 1984, she won the world championship in women's sabre at the 2002 World Fencing Championships in Lisbon, took Olympic silver in individual sabre at the 2004 Athens Games, and won a second Olympic silver with the Chinese team at Beijing 2008.