Sports, 2nd prize
The Golden Touch
Sergei Ilnitsky
European Pressphoto Agency
European Pressphoto Agency
01 August, 2012
Years of training, thousands of battles, and hundreds of victories prepared fencing competitors for the opportunity to stand on the piste at the 2012 London Olympic Games to fight for gold.
Sergei Ilnitsky
Sergei Ilnitsky is a staff photographer for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) in Moscow since 2003. He was born in 1974 in the small town of Mariupol, Ukraine. His passion for ph...
London, UK
Fencing at the London 2012 Olympics.
Gold-medal winner Jiyeon Kim of South Korea kisses her medal during the award ceremony for women’s sabre individual fencing.
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