{{Short description|Russian fencer (born 1993)}} {{family name hatnote|Olegovich|Bida|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox fencer | name = Sergey Bida | image =Violetta_Bida_husband_2023-12-11.jpg | image_size = 260px | caption = Bida in 2023 | full_name = Sergey Olegovich Bida | native_name = Сергей Олегович•Бида<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/146245|title=Sergey Bida|website=Olympedia}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|2|13|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russia | height = 1.95 m | weight = 93 kg | country = Russian | weapon = Épée | hand = left-handed | club = Bida Fencing Academy, California, USA | fieranking = [https://fie.org/athletes/23681 current ranking] | highest_rank = 1<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://fie.org/athletes/23681|title=BIDA Sergey|website=The International Fencing Federation}}</ref> | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's fencing}} {{MedalCountry | {{flagicon|RUS|roc-olympics}} ROC }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalSilver|2020 Tokyo|Team épée}} {{Medal|Country|{{RUS}}}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2019 Budapest|Individual épée}} {{MedalBronze|2018 Wuxi|Team épée}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|2017 Tbilisi|Team épée}} {{MedalGold|2018 Novi-Sad|Team épée}} {{MedalGold|2019 Düsseldorf|Team épée}} {{MedalBronze|2014 Strasbourg|Team épée}} {{MedalCompetition|European Games}} {{MedalSilver|2015 Baku|Team épée}} {{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}} {{MedalGold|2017 Taipei|Individual épée}} {{MedalGold|2017 Taipei|Team épée}} }}
'''Sergey Olegovich Bida''' ({{lang-rus|Сергей Олегович Бида||sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈbʲidə}}; born 13 February 1993) is a Russian left-handed épée fencer. He was ranked #1 in the world in 2019 and 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fie.org/athletes/23681|title=The International Fencing Federation |website=The International Fencing Federation official website}}</ref> He is a three-time European épée team champion, and 2021 Olympic épée team silver medalist.<ref>Владимир Линдер, Павел Андрианов, Ирина Прасканова, Сергей Шилов (2021). [https://books.google.com/books?id=cNYUEAAAQBAJ&dq=%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9+%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%E2%80%A2%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0&pg=PA1967 ''На крыльях «Буревестника». История студенческого спорта''] (in Russian).</ref> He moved to the United States in June 2023, along with his wife, Olympic épée fencer Violetta Bida. Bida is a member of USA Fencing.
==Education== Bida studied Sports Studies at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism in Moscow.<ref name="auto1"/>
==Fencing career== ===Russia=== ====2012–19; World championship silver medal==== Bida began fencing at 13 years of age, and his club before he left Russia was Dynamo Moscow.<ref name="auto9">{{Cite web|url=https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/01/31/eti-troe-prinosiat-zhertvy-v-realnoi-zhizni-radi-togo-chtoby-dobro-pobezhdalo-zlo|title="Эти трое приносят жертвы в реальной жизни ради того, чтобы добро побеждало зло". Мы поговорили с российскими фехтовальщиками, которые уехали в США и хотят выступать за Америку на летней Олимпиаде|website=Новая газета Европа}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://academyoffencingmasters.com/blog/category/afm-news/|title=Welcome Sergey Bida to the United States and to AFM!|website=Academy of Fencing Masters|author=Igor Chirashnya|date= June 21, 2023}}</ref> At the April 2012 Junior World Championship in Moscow, he won a bronze medal in individual épée.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Sergey Bida (Esgrima): Palmarés y resultados |url=https://www.los-deportes.info/sergey-bida-esgrima-spf216174.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Los-Deportes.info |language=es}}</ref> At the March 2013 Junior European Epee Championships in Toruń, Poland, he won a silver medal in team épée.<ref name=":0" /> At the June 2013 European Under-23 Championships in Budapest, Hungary, he won bronze medals in individual épée and team épée.<ref name=":0" />
At the 2014 European Fencing Championships in Strasbourg, France, Bida won a bronze medal in team épée. At the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, he won a silver medal in team épée.<ref name=":0" />
At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Tapei, Taiwan, Bida won gold medals in both individual épée and team épée. At the 2017 European Fencing Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, in June, he won a gold medal in team épée.
At the 2018 European Fencing Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, in June, he won a gold medal in team épée. At the 2018 World Fencing Championships in Wuxi, China, in July, Bida won a bronze medal in team épée.<ref name=":0" />
In March 2019 at the Buenos Aires Fencing World Cup in Argentina, Bida won the gold medal in individual épée.<ref name=":0" /> At the 2019 European Fencing Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany, in June, he won a gold medal in team épée.<ref name=":0" />
At the 2019 World Fencing Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in July, Bida won the individual silver medal in the épée tournament, losing only to Gergely Siklósi of Hungary.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/01/10/russian-fencers-gain-support-represent-america-paris-olympics/72165780007/|title=Olympic fencers who fled Russia after invasion of Ukraine win support for U.S. citizenship|website=USA TODAY|author=Josh Peter|date=January 10, 2024}}</ref><ref name="bida-coach">{{Cite web |last=Scherma |first=Redazione Pianeta |date=June 22, 2023 |title=Sergey Bida lascia la Russia e si sposta negli Stati Uniti: sarà Maestro e parteciperà alle gare domestiche USA |url=https://www.pianetascherma.com/2023/06/22/sergey-bida-coach-stati-uniti/ |website=pianetascherma.com |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=19 July 2019 |title=Scherma, Mondiali 2019: trionfo casalingo per Gergely Siklosi. Vittoria all'ultima stoccata sul russo Bida |url=https://www.oasport.it/2019/07/scherma-mondiali-2019-trionfo-casalingo-per-gergely-siklosi-vittoria-allultima-stoccata-sul-russo-bida/|author= Andrea Ziglio |website=OA Sport |language=it}}</ref>
In 2019, Bida was given the title Honoured Master of Sport by the Russian Federation.<ref name="auto1"/> He was named the 2019 Male Fencer of the Year by the Russian Federation.<ref name="auto1"/>
====2019–23; World #1, Olympic silver medal==== [[File:Fatherland 1st class.jpg|thumb|180px|Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" first class]] Bida was ranked # 1 in the world in men's épée in 2019 and 2020.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0ghhxky/the-unlikely-fate-of-three-russian-defectors-in-the-us|author=Anna Bressanin|title=The unlikely fate of three Russian defectors in the US; Konstantin Lokhanov, Sergey Bida and Violetta Bida are Russian Olympic champions in fencing. Since the war in Ukraine, they left their country. Now their life, dreams, and their entire career is hanging on their decision.|date=October 20, 2023|website=BBC (video)}}</ref><ref name="auto1"/> At the January 2020 Fencing Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar, he was the top seed and won the gold medal in individual épée defeating 2019 French team world champion Alexandre Bardenet 15-6 in the final, and that same month at the Heidenheim World Cup in Germany, he won a bronze medal in individual épée.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsmonks.com/news/2020-doha-epee-grand-prix-medals-report/|title=Russia, Romania Clinch Gold at 2020 Doha Epee Grand Prix|work= Sports Monks|date= January 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1089718/bida-wins-fie-epee-grand-prix|title=Bida lives up to billing to win FIE Épée Grand Prix|date=January 26, 2020|website=Inside the Games|author=Nancy Gillen}}</ref> At the February 2020 Vancouver World Cup in Canada, he won a silver medal in individual épée.<ref name=":0" />
In July 2021 at the Olympics in Tokyo, Bida won a silver medal in team épée, and came in fifth in individual épée (losing only to gold medal winner Romain Cannone of France).<ref>[https://olympics.com/en/athletes/sergey-bida "Sergey Bida,"] Olympics.com.</ref>
In recognition of his achievements at the Tokyo Olympics, Bida received the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" first class from the president of the Russian Federation.<ref name="auto1"/> It was awarded to him by Russian president Vladimir Putin.<ref name="auto4">Joshua Robinson (January 25, 2024). [https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/olympics-russia-ukraine-war-fencing-f5366350?st=ixd0w6ssjuberrz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink "An Olympian Couple Moved to California. Now They’re Wanted by Russia. Russian fencers Sergey and Violetta Bida relocated from Moscow and signed an antiwar declaration in hopes of competing for the U.S. Russia responded by issuing warrants for their arrest,"] ''The Wall Street Journal''.</ref> In January 2023, he won the All-Russian competition in Moscow.<ref name="auto9"/> Up until the time he left Russia, he was paid a salary for being a member of the Russian national fencing team.<ref name="auto9"/>
===United States=== ====2023; US Summer National Championships gold medal==== In May 2023 Bida left Russia and moved to the United States to embark in a career there, joining the AFM (Academy of Fencing Masters) Coaching Team in northern California.<ref name="auto9"/><ref name="auto" /> He informed his Russian authorities including the management at his club Dynamo and the Russian Fencing Federation that he was ending his sports career in Russia, and their response was "okay, good luck."<ref name="auto9"/>
He is both coaching and competing in the United States, as is his wife Olympic épée fencer Violetta Bida.<ref name="auto" /><ref name="bida-coach" /> As to his coaching young boys and girls at his new club, he said: "At first, the children started off a little bit shy, but it's OK because I was also a little bit shy."<ref name="auto10">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/anti-war-russian-fencers-target-spot-on-us-olympic-team/a-68140610|title=Anti-war Russian fencers target spot on US Olympic team |date=February 1, 2024|website= Deutsche Welle|author=Jonathan Crane}}</ref> The couple now lives in a one-bedroom apartment, as they await the birth of their first child, and teach children at the local fencing club.<ref name="auto3"/><ref name="auto8">{{Cite web|url=https://socialbites.ca/sports/460775.html|title="Traitors to Russia": Fencers who fled to the USA face 10 years in prison; The Ministry of Internal Affairs is looking for fencers Sergei and Violetta Bida who fled to the USA |date=December 31, 2023|website=Social Bites}}</ref> He and his wife join Konstantin Lokhanov as Olympic fencers who left Russia to go to the United States after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref name="bida-coach" />
In 2023, USA Fencing granted Russians living in the United States the right to compete in American competitions as neutral athletes, if they sign a public declaration against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/sports/three-russian-fencers-compete-us-summer-nationals-2023-06-30/|title=Three Russian fencers to compete at U.S Summer Nationals|date=June 30, 2023|publisher=Reuters}}</ref><ref name="auto6"/> On the Fourth of July weekend, Bida won a gold medal in the team men’s épée competition at the United States Summer National Championships, in which 60 men's épée teams competed.<ref name="auto5"/><ref name="auto6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/sports/olympics/russia-ukraine-olympics-fencing.html|title=With War as a Backdrop, a Russian Fencing Drama Plays Out in the U.S.; The departure of Russian fencers who object to their country's invasion of Ukraine has created a stir at home and left their sporting futures in question.|first=Jeré|last=Longman|date=July 8, 2023|work=The New York Times}}</ref>
The reaction of the Russian Fencing Federation changed dramatically once Bida publicly denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and followed that up by winning a gold medal at the U.S. Summer National Championships.<ref name="auto9"/> Embarrassed and angered, a few days later the Russian Fencing Federation fired the Bidas' former coach, the highly regarded Russian national épée team head coach Alexander Glazunov -- "due to the flight of his athletes to the United States without the consent" of the Russian Fencing Federation.<ref name="auto4"/><ref name="auto6"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sportrbc.ru/news/649ff9299a79473ca8cd03dd|title=Тренера сборной России уволят из-за "бегства" шпажистов в США|language=ru|date=2023-07-01|website=Sportrbc.ru}}</ref><ref name="auto9"/> When asked about his firing, the coach said: "I don't know why I'm responsible. It’s better to ask the [Russian Fencing Federation]."<ref name="auto9"/> ''The Sports Examiner'' commented: "This story is almost too strange to be true."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/tsx-report-russian-coach-fired-as-active-military-fencers-are-in-u-s-richardson-latest-to-call-for-t-new-tokyo-2020-sentences/|title=TSX Report: Russian coach fired as active-military fencers are in U.S.|first=Rich|last=Perelman|date=July 6, 2023|work=The Sports Examiner}}</ref>
On December 27, 2023, the Russian state-run newspaper ''Pravda'' reported that Bida and his wife had been put on the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs "wanted list for escaping to USA."<ref name="russian_fencers_usa">{{Cite web|url=https://english.pravda.ru/news/sports/158572-russian_fencers_usa/|title=Two Russian fencers wanted for escaping to USA|first=Petr|last=Ermilin|date=December 27, 2023|website=Pravda Report}}</ref> While Russia issued warrants for the couple's arrest, ''Pravda'' reported that it was unclear what Russian criminal code the Russian government had accused the Bidas of violating.<ref name="auto10"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/rsport_ria/p/C1U9W0oo-1U/|title=Instagram|website=Instagram}}</ref><ref name="russian_fencers_usa"/><ref name="auto4"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lopinion.fr/international/athletes-olympiques-en-couple-et-recherches-par-moscou|title=Athlètes olympiques, en couple… et recherchés par Moscou|date=January 26, 2024|website=l'Opinion}}</ref> At the same time, the Russian press wrote that the fencers faced up to 10 years in prison in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://socialbites.ca/sports/468945.html|title=Mother of fencer Bida, who left Russia: Her son did not want to obtain American citizenship|date=January 12, 2024|website=Social Bites}}</ref><ref name="auto10"/>
====2024–present==== Days later, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and USA Fencing both wrote letters in support of Bida, his wife, and Lokhanov being granted U.S. citizenship.<ref name="auto3"/> USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland wrote as to the fencers, in a January 4, 2024, letter: "Our intention in endorsing their cause is to enable them to proudly represent our remarkable nation in the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games and other forthcoming international competitions."<ref name="auto3"/> Phil Andrews, the CEO of USA Fencing, wrote in a January 5, 2024, letter to the U.S. Congress: "All 3 of these individuals have made sacrifices at great personal cost, and put their lives at risk to be able to represent our nation, and we ask you to make every effort to support them in the extraordinary circumstance."<ref name="auto3"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/russian-olympic-fencers-fled-russia-war-seeking-us-citizenship|title=Olympic fencers who fled Russia over war seeking US citizenship; Attorneys representing 3 Russian fencers are contacting US representatives and senators seeking a bill that would grant them citizen status|first=Timothy|last=Nerozzi|date=January 12, 2024|website=Fox News}}</ref> Bida expressed surprise about getting the letters of support from the USOPC and USA Fencing for U.S. citizenship, saying: "This kind of letter, it’s impossible in Russia."<ref name="auto3"/> Bida said he and his wife would be "honored" to become an American citizen, adding "We will feel happy and thankful to spend our lives here."<ref name="auto10"/>
Shortly after the support of the USOPC and USA Fencing for the defecting fencers to obtain U.S. citizenship was made public, Sergey Malinkovich, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communists of Russia party, crudely threatened the fencers by sending them a portrait of Leon Trotsky.<ref name="auto4"/> Trotsky had also emigrated decades earlier, and was assassinated by a Soviet agent in Mexico in 1940.<ref name="auto4"/> Malinkovich noted: "everyone knows how it ended." He added: "I also urge the Russian special services to form an excellent team of fencers and ensure their participation in the competition in which the traitor Bida will participate."<ref>[https://rsport.ria.ru/20240113/fekhtovanie-1921172870.html "Сбежавшему в США шпажисту Биде отправили портрет Троцкого,"] rsport.ria.ru, January 13, 2024.</ref> Russian State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov called the fencers "cowards, traitors, and defectors" and "political rags.'<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsunrolled.com/sports/342680.html|title=State Duma deputy called fleeing fencers 'political rags |work= RIA Novosti|date=January 13, 2024}}</ref> Russian Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdnyakov said: "they were promised to be treated with some sweet cookies. The most important thing is that they don’t choke on them."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://myboxingnews.com/head-of-the-roc-pozdnyakov-the-fencers-who-left-for-the-usa-did-not-think-about-their-action/|title=Head of the ROC Pozdnyakov: The fencers who left for the USA did not think about their action|date=January 17, 2024|work=My Boxing News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tass.com/sports/1731725|title=Russia can do without fencers who jump ship to US, says Russian Olympic chief|website=TASS|date=January 12, 2024}}</ref> Soviet-Russian former four-time Olympic champion biathlete Alexander Tikhonov called the Bidas traitors to Russia.<ref name="auto8"/> Yelena Välbe, the head of the Russian Cross-Country Skiing Federation, said about the three fencers: "It's shameful to run ... We have to be patriots."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eng.obozrevatel.com/section-sport/news-its-a-shame-to-run-away-theyre-just-fools-russian-olympic-champion-insults-athletes-who-called-putin-a-liar-17-01-2024.html|title="It's a shame to run away, they're just fools": Russian Olympic champion insults athletes who called Putin a liar|website=Obozrevatel|date=January 17, 2024|author=Oleksandr Chekanov}}</ref> Other Russian officials also pledged that there would be consequences.<ref name="auto4"/> ''Pravda'' shed light on the Russian officials' reaction, writing: "It is difficult to overestimate the propaganda value of sports, but "defectors" influence public opinion no less."{{CN|date=August 2025}}
Bida is a member of USA Fencing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Member List |url=https://member.usfencing.org/search/members?first=&last=Bida&division=&inactive=&country=FIE&id=#find |website=USA Fencing}}</ref> As of January 2024, he was among the few Russian athletes world-wide who had come out as staunchly against Russia’s invasion; while other Russian athletes have spoken about their general desire for peace, most stopped short of criticizing Russia's war.<ref name="auto4"/> In 2024, while being interviewed in California he said: “Here I feel more free. I breathe more free.”<ref name="auto4"/>
== Personal life == [[File:Valentina Rastvorova 1960.jpg|thumb|180px|Bida's maternal grandmother, Ukrainian Valentina Rastvorova, 1958 world women's foil champion.]]Bida's maternal grandmother, Valentina Rastvorova, was a Soviet Ukrainian-born fencer who was the 1958 World Women's Foil individual champion, and won team gold and individual silver in women's foil in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. She later won team silver in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.<ref name="auto1" /> Bida's maternal grandfather, Boris Grishin, was a water polo player who won Olympic silver in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and Olympic bronze in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.<ref name="auto1" />
His mother is Yelena Grishina, a two-time finalist in Olympic foil, in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.<ref name="auto1"/> His maternal uncle, Yevgeny Grishin, won Olympic water polo gold in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and water polo bronze in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto9"/>
Bida was originally set to follow in his grandfather and uncle's footsteps in competitive water polo; however, he contracted a severe case of sinusitis when he was 12 years old that prevented him from getting in the pool. He took up épée instead, at 13 years of age—late, by Russian standards, as he was too old to begin in other sports.<ref name="auto9"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Chirashnya |first1=Igor|date=May 7, 2020 |title=Parenting Insight from Elena Grishina, Champion Fencing Mom of the World's #1 Epee Fencer, Sergey Bida |url=https://academyoffencingmasters.com/blog/elena-grishina-about-her-son-sergey-bida/ |website=Academy of Fencing Masters |access-date=July 27, 2020}}</ref>
His first marriage ended in divorce in early June 2021.<ref name="auto9" /> His wife Violetta also fences épée, and they met initially as kids at fencing training camps.<ref name="auto4"/> At the time she mostly found him annoying, and she jokes now: "Some days, I remember how I hated him."<ref name="auto4"/> They married in February 2023.<ref name="auto4"/> She is a three-time Junior World Champion, a silver medalist in both the Senior World and European Championships, and a Tokyo Olympian.<ref name="bida-coach" />
Commenting on the influence of his parents and Violetta's parents on their lives, Sergey said: "We've been competitive all our lives. We're alive when we compete. All of the things that our parents gave to us, and their experiences, we are using right now. There is always one more rock to climb."<ref name="auto10"/>
== Medal record == === Olympic Games === thumb|180px|Tokyo Olympic Games silver medal {| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Year !Location !Event !Position |- |2021 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|JPN}} Tokyo, Japan |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web|title= 30 Jul 2021 Olympic Games|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2021/248|access-date=2021-12-06|website= The International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |}
=== World Championship === {| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Year !Location !Event !Position |- | rowspan="1" |2018 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CHN}} Wuxi, China |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web|title=25 Jul 2018 World Championship|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/248?tab=results|access-date=2021-04-21|website=The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |- |2019 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest, Hungary |Individual Men's Épée | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web|title=16 Jul 2019 World Championship|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/242?tab=results|access-date=2021-04-09|website= The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |}
=== European Championship === {| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Year !Location !Event !Position |- |2014 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|FRA}} Strasbourg, France |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web|title=07 Jun 2014 Championnats d'Europe|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2014/745|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |- |2017 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GEO}} Tbilisi, Georgia |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web|title= 16 Jun 2017 Championnats d'Europe|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2017/745|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |- |2018 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|SER}} Novi Sad, Serbia |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web|title= 20 Jun 2018 Championnats d'Europe par equipe|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2018/745|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |- |2019 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Düsseldorf, Germany |Team Men's Épée | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web|title=21 Jun 2019 Championnats d'Europe|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/745|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |}
=== Grand Prix === {| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Date !Location !Event !Position |- | rowspan="1" |01/24/2020 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|QAT}} Doha, Qatar |Individual Men's Épée | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web|title= 24 Jan 2020 Grand Prix du Qatar|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2020/387|access-date=2021-12-06|website= The International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |}
=== World Cup === {| class="wikitable" width="50%" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" !Date !Location !Event !Position |- |03/22/2019 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|ARG}} Buenos Aires, Argentina |Individual Men's Épée | bgcolor="gold" |1st<ref>{{Cite web|title= 22 Mar 2019 Coupe du Monde|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2019/104|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |- |01/09/2020 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|GER}} Heidenheim, Germany |Individual Men's Épée | bgcolor="caramel" |3rd<ref>{{Cite web|title= 09 Jan 2020 Coupe du Monde|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2020/108|access-date=2021-12-09|website= The International Fencing Federation}}</ref> |- |02/07/2020 | rowspan="1" align="left" |{{flagicon|CAN}} Vancouver, Canada |Individual Men's Épée | bgcolor="silver" |2nd<ref>{{Cite web|title= 07 Feb 2020 Coupe du Monde|url=http://fie.org/competitions/2020/98|access-date=2021-12-09|website=The International Fencing Federation }}</ref> |}
==See also== *Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, Belarusian Olympic sprinter who defected to Poland.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIE|23681}} * {{EFC|00000882}} * {{FFR|184023}} * {{Instagram|bidasergey}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bida, Sergey}} Category:1993 births Category:21st-century Russian sportsmen Category:Living people Category:Russian male épée fencers Category:Summer World University Games medalists in fencing Category:FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia Category:European Games silver medalists for Russia Category:European Games medalists in fencing Category:Fencers at the 2015 European Games Category:Medalists at the 2015 European Games Category:Fencers from Moscow Category:Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade Category:Olympic fencers for Russia Category:Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Russian Olympic Committee athletes Category:Olympic medalists in fencing Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Category:Left-handed fencers Category:Russian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Category:Russian people of Ukrainian descent Category:Defecting sportspeople Category:World Fencing Championships medalists