Fencing has been verysuccessful for Estonia in thepast few decades. OksanaJermakova became the firstfencing World Champion forEstonia winning Individual Épéein 1993. Irina Embrich has wonsome medals in the past years,but unfortunately failed toqualify to the 2008 SummerOlympics.

Nikolai Novosjolov was the onlyEstonian fencer to compete atthe 2008 Olympic tournamentand became world championin 2010.

Estonia has won 10 WorldFencing Championships medalsand several European FencingChampionships medals.

Jaan Kirsipuu has been the best

Estonian road bicycle racer. He has

won 4 Tour de France stages and

1 Vuelta a España stage. Jaan

kirsipuu also wore the yellow

jersey for six days in the1999 Tour

de France.

Erika Salumäe is an Estonian track

bicycle racer who won the first

Olympic gold medal for Estonia after

the country regained its independence

in 1991.

Rein Taaramäe finished the 2011 Tour

de France in 11th place and won the

14th stage of 2011 Vuelta a España. He

also held the white jersey for Stage 8

and 9 in the 2012 Tour de France.

Markko Märtin was the first

Estonian who managed to win

the WRC rally. Markko has scored

5 WRC victories, total of 18

podium finishes, 207 points and

101 stage wins. In 2004, he

finished the season with 3rd

place. Markko was one of the best

rally drivers, but now he has

retired. But thousand of rally fans

from Estonia are still interested of

WRC, visiting Rally Finland.

Marko Asmer is an Estonian auto

racing driver, whose career

in single seater junior formula is

notable for his British Formula

Three Championship title in2007. Asmer is also the firstEstonian to test a FormulaOne car.

Kevin Korjus is an Estonian racing

driver. In 2010, he won

the Eurocup Formula Renault

2.0 championship.

In the Estonian folk calendar

Easter is celebrated not only as a

great church holiday but also as a

spring holiday to welcome the

arrival of the lighter and warmer

season. And although chocolate

eggs and bright-coloured feathers

have found their way into Estonian

family traditions, many of the old

customs are being kept alive, too.