Fencing 2022 Discussion Thread

[phelps 8,302]

time for the Continental Championships 2022...

 

first to be completed, the Panamerican Championships

 

USA dominated the field, but not as usual at least in Foil and Epee competitions, with Venezuela, Canada and Argentina all being capable of stealing one or more gold medals from the US powerhouse.

 

Right now, only Saber is still a US only affair.

 

here's the list of this year's Panamerican Champions:

 

women's Individual Epee: Isabel Di Tella
men's Individual Epee: Ruben Gascòn Limardo
women's Individual Foil: Eleanor Harvey
men's Individual Foil: Alexander Massialas
women's Individual Sabre: Anne-Elizabeth Stone
men's Individual Sabre: Daryl Homer

women's Team Epee: United States
men's Team Epee: Venezuela
women's Team Foil: Canada
men's Team Foil: United States
women's Team Sabre: United States
men's Team Sabre: United States

 

Full Results and Rankings are available on the FIE website (just choose the "Previous Competitions" link on top of the page):

 

https://fie.org/competitions

[phelps 8,302]

also already underway, the 2022 Asian Championships

 

so far, the Individual events have been completed

 

here's the list of this year's Asian Individual Champions:

 

women's Individual Epee: Vivian Kong Man Wai
men's Individual Epee: Koki Kano
women's Individual Foil: Shi Yue
men's Individual Foil: Cheung Ka Long
women's Individual Sabre: Choi Soo Yeon
men's Individual Sabre: Gu Bon Gil

 

of course, also the full results and rankings of the Asian champs are available on the FIE website (same advice of the Pan-Am Champs once the event is over):

 

https://fie.org/competitions

 

p.s. the Team Events' Champions will be published once the tournament is concluded.

[phelps 8,302]

comin'up shortly, the African Championships and the European Championships...

[bestmen 2,906]

Afrivcan champs ,If am not mistaken 1 gold in teams epee women 

[Dunadan 1,103]

 Alexandra Ndolo, world silver medallist in women's epee one month ago, will switch to  , her father's country, in the road to Paris 2024.

[phelps 8,302]

2 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

 Alexandra Ndolo, world silver medallist in women's epee one month ago, will switch to  , her father's country, in the road to Paris 2024.

big loss for the German team...basically, a nail on their coffin (not that they were real contenders, but still)...

[Vektor 3,326]

4 hours ago, Dunadan said:

 Alexandra Ndolo, world silver medallist in women's epee one month ago, will switch to  , her father's country, in the road to Paris 2024.

Damn, there goes one of the teams for the European quota. I guess the Hungarian girls now have a slightly better chance to qualify. 

[phelps 8,302]

 Arianna Errigo is going to give birth to a couple of twins next March, she announced on her social media.

 

she won the individual silver and the team gold medal at the 2022 world champs when she was already pregnant 

 

she also said that she already got pregnant just after Tokyo 2020, but she lost the baby after 3 (very difficult) months, causing her a lot of mental troubles.

 

coming back to the gym and practicing the sport she loves was the only reason she could recover from that tragedy and look ahead.

 

(in Italian)

https://www.oasport.it/2022/12/scherma-arianna-errigo-aspetta-due-gemelli-partoriro-a-marzo-ho-vinto-i-mondiali-da-incinta/