Fencing FIE World Championships 2018

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17 ore fa, dareza ha scritto:

Wow what a disaster for Russia. Only one bronze after 4 events

 

their sabre girls saved the face, at least...

they have 3 women among the 4 medallists...

meanwhile in the men's foil they are all already out before the last 8 (where there are 3 Italians, 2 Britons and no Americans, by the way)

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men's foil quarters are:

 

Foconi vs Lefort

Garozzo vs Heo Jun

Kruse vs Davis

Avola vs Llavador

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Women's Individual Sabre

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Sofia Pozdniakova (RUS)

Silver: Sofya Valikaya (RUS)

Bronze: Anne-Elizabeth Stone (USA) & Yana Egorian (RUS)

 

Semifinals:

Pozdniakova b. Stone 15-6

Velikaya b. Egorian 15-14

 

Gold Medal Match:

Pozdniakova b. Velikaya 15-13

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/245/results/rank

Edited July 25, 2018 by phelps

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Men's Individual Foil

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Alessio Foconi (ITA)

Silver: Richard Kruse (GBR)

Bronze: Heo Jun (KOR) & Carlos Llavador (ESP)

 

Semifinals:

Foconi b. Heo 15-12

Kruse b. Llavador 15-11

 

Gold Medal Match:

Foconi b. Kruse 15-8

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/244/results/rank

Edited July 25, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,678]

in the meantime, the team events of the women's epee and of the men's sabre have been completed...

 

and as expected, the Italian Epee girls are already out (they lost to Germany in the round of last 16)...

 

tomorrow those events will start directly from the quarterfinals, as they are:

 

women's team epee

 

China vs Germany

South Korea vs France

Russia vs Poland

Estonia vs United States

 

men's team sabre

 

South Korea vs France

Georgia vs Iran

Hungary vs Germany

Italy vs Russia

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Also Japan didn't even come close to repeating their success in Men's Foil.

[Gianlu33 4,574]

What disaster for the italians foil  Garozzo lost 15-14 and Avola 15-10... both was in advantage during the match. At last Foconi is in semifinal...

[phelps 7,678]

shame! shame! shame! on Garozzo and Avola...they literally threw a medal away against no-name fencers...

 

by the way, quite a lot of surprises also in both today's events...not our usual World Champ (it's the Chinese jinx, of course)...

[Andry84 102]

Disaster????????When italian fencing supporters start to understand that winning in fencing is much, much, much, much more difficult than 15 years ago? Disaster for a world medal?Ok Garozzo  and Avola are better than korean and spanish fencers but surprising results often happens in sport (remember Marco Cecchinato in Paris)

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1 ora fa, Andry84 ha scritto:

Disaster????????When italian fencing supporters start to understand that winning in fencing is much, much, much, much more difficult than 15 years ago? Disaster for a world medal?Ok Garozzo  and Avola are better than korean and spanish fencers but surprising results often happens in sport (remember Marco Cecchinato in Paris)

 

it's not a disaster..but still it's a disappointing outcome, especially when 2 other people waste such a chance against clearly weaker opponents...

frankly, once getting to that specific quarterfinals situation, it was absolutely normal to expect 3 Italians among the top 4...and as it didn't happen, it's also absolutely normal being unhappy (I'm pretty sure that Avola and Garozzo are the first to blame themselves for those losses and even more because at a certain point they looked in control of thier respective assaults)...

 

now let's hope that Foconi doesn't imitate his teammates and "fills his contract" by winning that fu**in' Gold medal...