| Vasil Etropolski | |
| Birth Name: | Васил Михайлов•Етрополски[1] |
| Fullname: | Vasil Mihaylov•Etropolski |
| Birth Date: | 18 March 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Height: | 183 cm |
| Sport: | Fencing |
| Event: | Sabre |
| Employer: | New York Athletic Club[2] |
| Worlds: | 1983 sabre world champion |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Vasil Etropolski (born 18 March 1959) is a Bulgarian fencer and fencing coach. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1980 and 1988 Summer Olympics.[3] He also won the 1983 sabre world championship.[4] He is the twin brother of Khristo Etropolski, who also fenced for Bulgaria at the 1980 and 1988 Olympics.[5]
At the New York Athletic Club he coached Stephen Kovacs, a sabre fencer who in 1989 won the United States Fencing Association (USFA) Under-17 saber championship, and in 1990 won the USFA Under-20 (Junior) saber championship.[6] [7] [8] Kovacs later became a fencing coach, was charged with the sexual assault of two of his students, and died in prison in 2022.[9]