16 women's teams, because 12 is a shitty number for a tournament - both because the forced continental representation will lead to it being a relatively weak tournament and because you can not make a decent tournament with 12 teams, you'll be forced to have the super awful 'best third placed teams' nonsense.
0 men's teams
Instead of a total of 28, we go to a total of 16 teams. We gain 12 x whatever number of players are in a men's team for sports where the Olympics are important, we have a women's tournament with a decent format and we get rid of having junior championships at the Olympics, win-win-win
women's Cadet Individual Sabre
Gold: Amalia Covaliu
Silver: Pan Qimiao
Bronze: Zhang Xuanyi & Jang Eun Chae
Semifinals
Covaliu b. Zhang 15-12
Pan b. Jang 15-8
Gold Medal Match
Covaliu b. Pan 15-14
Full Results & Rankings
https://fie.org/competitions/2025/239?tab=results
women's Junior Individual Sabre
Gold: Aleksandra Mikhailova
Silver: Alexandra Lee
Bronze: Magda Skarbonkiewicz & Pan Qimiao
Semifinals
Mikhailova b. Skarbonkiewicz 15-12
Lee b. Pan 15-9
Gold Medal Match
Mikhailova b. Lee 15-3
Full Results & Rankings
https://fie.org/competitions/2025/239?tab=results
as usual, when a major tournament is held in China, it makes almost impossible to follow properly, especially when it comes to live broadcast
now, there's only a streaming on the official website working only on PCs, no YT, no apps, which means no comfortable TV watch
however, the first couple of days has already gone and we know the individual Sabre medallists...
the Italian Spring Nationals (main selection meet for the World Champs) start on Sunday in the usual location of Riccione
a few of our main swimmers won't participate (or won't be tapering because they are already qualified), among them Gregorio Paltrinieri and Thomas Ceccon, who's still training in Australia and he's likely to compete at the Australian Trials (despite he won't be able to swim the A finals, as far as I know)
however, a few youngsters are expected to step up and earn themselves some attention by our NT officials (if not a place on the team)
the main star of the week should be Carlos D'Ambrosio, who recently beat the old 200m freestyle short course national record held by Filippo Magnini since a very long time (2009, with the old rubber suits)
among the women, lots of expectations are on Sara Curtis
but, even if it seems a bit too early, take note of this name: Alessandra Mao (class of 2011)
many people expect her as the true "new" Pellegrini
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