Fencing FIE World Championships 2019

[Vektor 3,326]

Top 10 nations in world ranking points after 4 events

 

1. Russia - 336,25 pts

2. Italy - 322,5 pts

3. Hungary - 286,25 pts

4. South Korea - 272,5 pts

5. France - 261,25 pts

6. China - 208,75 pts

7. Japan - 190,63 pts

8. Ukraine - 190 pts

9. United States - 166,25 pts

10. Germany - 132,51 pts

[OlympicsFan 858]

1 hour ago, Vektor said:

4 years ago Imre won the Men's Epee WCh for us at the age of 40, and now Siklósi wins it at the age of 21. 

 

Young world champions on the men's side so far (22 and 21). 

Congrats! Really impressive performance, especially because epee is usually dominated by old athletes. Hungary seems to have an endless pool of talents and constantly produces new world class athletes.

[GoHungary! 21]

Huge congratulation to Siklósi, very impressive perfromance from a 21 years old. So far, it's a successful WC on home soil, but the team performances are going to be the most privotal...

[Vektor 3,326]

1 hour ago, GoHungary! said:

Huge congratulation to Siklósi, very impressive perfromance from a 21 years old. So far, it's a successful WC on home soil, but the team performances are going to be the most privotal...

 

Yeah... the individual medals are great, but this will be a failed WCh for us if the teams flop. We need to qualify at least two teams (I guess we can realistically qualify three at best if everything works out perfectly, the men's epee team and the two sabre teams?) 

[GoHungary! 21]

3 minutes ago, Vektor said:

 

Yeah... the individual medals are great, but this will be a failed WCh for us if the teams flop. We need to qualify at least two teams (I guess we can realistically qualify three at best if everything works out perfectly, the men's epee team and the two sabre teams?) 

 

Yes, and I secretaly hope there is a miracle for the woman's foil team too...

[OlympicsFan 858]

Two russian girls (Egorian and Pozdniakova!) in the sabre already out before the competition even started ...

Also: There is an indian girl named "Bhavani Devi Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman" and she just won against Besbes!

Edited July 20, 2019 by OlympicsFan

[dareza 911]

WTF! After few big surprises in the women's sabre, now we have BIG surprise in the men's foil. So far best fencer in the last two years Foconi is out in first round!

 

lol first seeded athletes still without medal. Only Velikaya left

[phelps 7,675]

Yesterday's recap...

 

 

Women's Individual Foil

 

Gold: Inna Deriglazova

Silver: Pauline Ranvier

Bronze: Arianna Errigo & Elisa Di Francisca

 

Semifinals

Ranvier b. Errigo 15-13

Deriglazova b. Di Francisca 15-13

 

Gold Medal Match

Deriglazova b. Ranvier 15-11

 

Full Ranking (and Results) here:

https://2019budapestfencing.com/files/hunfencing/2019_wfc_bud/swf-in/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

 

 

Men's Individual Epee

 

Gold: Gergely Siklosi

Silver: Sergey Bida

Bronze: Igor Reizlin & Andrea Santarelli

 

Semifinals

Siklosi b. Santarelli 15-9

Bida b. Reizlin 15-10

 

Gold Medal Match

Siklosi b. Bida 15-14

 

Full Ranking (and Results) here:

https://2019budapestfencing.com/files/hunfencing/2019_wfc_bud/sme-in/index.php?page=clasfinal.htm

[phelps 7,675]

Yesterday it was quite a strange day for Italy...

 

it started as one of the potential most disappointing day of the Century, but then it suddenly turned out to be very exciting and promising until the medal session...when the disaster came back with all of its power...

 

first Santarelli, who started very well against Siklosi (4-1 ahead in a couple of minutes), but after that flashy start, he went out of the match, technically and mentally...he took a 12-0 partial that would have killed an elephant and had to be satisfied with a Bronze medal, that would have been considered a great success before the competition started, but once you see the names of the other 3 medallists, you understand that's more a wasted chance than a great success...

 

by the way, unexpected but really exciting ride by the young Hungarian Gergely Siklosi...and not only he won a well deserved gold medal, he did it in style, showing a really attractive kind of fencing, not the usual boring epee schemes...

congrats to him!

 

p.s. fun fact: the Russian TV commentator for yesterday's events was Sergey Bida's mother...I just can't imagine what her feeling was during her son's matches and how she managed to be professional in a moment like that (being a former top level athlete herself probably helped a lot, I guess)...

 

on the women's side, the competition would have been disappointing in any case, as you can't lose the reigning world champion and no. seed like it happened to Volpi...

but what happened in the medal session really hurts and makes the day a half disaster...and don't tell me that 2 Bronze medals in the women's Foil are a good result for Italy...simply, it's not true!

first Errigo lost to Ranvier in such an irritating style...she went 7-13 down taking the same kind of hit at least 10 times (showing not to be there with her mind at 100%, as usually happens to her in the the last 3/4 years), then she got back to 13-13 in about 15 seconds of fencing! showing all of her class for a short while...finally, she lost her mind once again taking the 2 most stupid hits in the world in 3 seconds and therefore losing the chance to play for Gold...

 

no comment on the second semifinal between Di Francisca and Deriglazova, with one of the best women's Foil matches of the past few years completely ruined (and turned around in the final outcome) by a woman that should go to work with pigs in a farm, rather than destroying the sport of fencing...

 

so, the final match between the Russian and the French girl was not that exciting, with Deriglazova being too good for Ranvier and always in control of the bout, even if Ranvier fought very well and didn't give up anything easy to the Queen of Foil of these last few years...

[phelps 7,675]

and Today's start of the day looks just like yesterday...another Italian reigning champion and no. 1 seed already out in the early stages!

 

I really hope that these painful individual events are just a prelude to a triumphant ride in the team events, which are a lot more important, as they are the key to success for the Olympic qualification...