Vadym Gutzeit (; also Vadym Guttsayt or Vadym Markovych Huttsayt; born 6 October 1971) is a Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer, and current Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister, as well as the president of the National Fencing Federation of Ukraine. He was world junior sabre champion in 1989 and 1990, fenced in three Olympic Games, was sabre team Olympic champion in 1992, won a bronze medal in the 1991 World Fencing Championships, and was the 2005 Maccabiah Games sabre champion. Since March 2020, Gutzeit has been Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister. He has been an international referee for the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) since 2002. Gutzeit was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the FIE in 2013. Early life and personal life Gutzeit was born in Kyiv into a Jewish family. In 1993 he graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Physical Culture. In 1993-2002 he served as a major in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He is married to Ukrainian journalist, and radio and TV presenter, Oksana Gutzeit. They have two children. Fencing career Fencer Gutzeit took up fencing at the age of nine. He won the Ukrainian national sabre championship when he was 15. He fenced for Dynamo (Kiev). In 1988 he became USSR Junior Sabre Champion. Gutzeit won the gold medal in the Junior Under-20 Sabre World Fencing Championships in 1989 and 1990. In 1991, he won a silver medal in the same event. That year he also won an individual bronze medal, and a Unified Team silver medal, in sabre at the 1991 senior World Fencing Championships. He competed at four Universiade competitions, winning five medals between 1991 and 1999, with gold medals in the individual sabre event in 1997 and 1999. Olympic champion Gutzeit is an Olympic champion, and has competed in three Olympics. He competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for the Unified Team (the former Soviet Union) at the age of 20, and won a gold medal with the sabre team. He also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, this time for Ukraine, finishing 6th in the individual sabre event after being defeated 14–15 in the quarter-finals by Russia's Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who eventually won the competition. Gutzeit took part in his third Olympiad at the 2000 Sydney Games, for Ukraine. Seeded No. 13, he lost 10–15 in the table of 16 to 1998 world champion Domonkos Ferjancsik of