Fencing FIE World Championships 2019

[phelps 8,640]

4 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

What's her story? Would you care to explain, please?

 

well, she was born in Milan (ITA) in 1985...

 

her dad was the son of the at the time German General Consul in Italy, meanwhile her mom is the fashion designer Valeria Ferlini (Brazilian with clear Italian heritage)...

 

as both her parents were living and working in Milan, she grew up in Italy and she used to be one of our best specialists...

 

with our team she won 1 Gold (team) and 2 Bronze (1 individual and 1 team) medals at the world champs and the same did at the European champs (1 Gold and 1 Silver medal with the team, 1 individual bronze) between 2005 and 2012...

 

after the London Games, she decided to stop her fencing career, but then the Brazilian federation convinced her to come back with their team, as the Rio Olympics were approaching (and since she wasn't anymore in our team, she happily accepted to represent her mom's Country)...

 

with Brazil she immediately won the Pan-American champs in 2015, then she made the quarterfinals at the Rio Games and now it's the apotheosis of her career...

 

currently (since quite a few years) she lives and trains in Paris with the great French maestro Le Vavasseur (the man on the bench behind her in the final assault earlier today)...

 

on a personal side, she's a very lively girl and an artist (just look at her personal website and instagram)...

 

to be noticed, I heard from Youtube's broadcaster that she recently lost her father...so, the emotional scenes after her win are explained (when she took off her glove, I think she was kissing the name of her dad tattoed on her wrist)...

[phelps 8,640]

Men's Individual Sabre

 

Gold: Oh Sanguk

Silver: Andras Szatmari

Bronze: Mojtaba Abedini & Luca Curatoli

 

Semifinals

Szatmari b. Abedini 15-8

Oh b. Curatoli 15-11

 

Gold Medal Match

Oh b. Szatmari 15-12

 

Full Ranking (and Results) here:

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

[phelps 8,640]

finally, just a few stats...

 

only on day 1, we already have 8 Nations coming from 3 different Continents in the medal table...

 

in the men's Sabre we had 8 men from 8 different Countries in the quarterfinals and in the women's Epee 8 girls from 7 different Countries at the same stage...

 

in both competitions, the no. 1 seed couldn't even make the podium...

 

this shows how the sport of Fencing has grown in the last few years...now we can really say it's a true global discipline and one of the most widely spread all around the world (at least for what concerns the top level of play)...

 

the time when it was the home garden of the usual 4/5 powerhouses has long gone...

[Vektor 3,326]

Top10 nations in world ranking points after 2 events:

 

1. South Korea - 220 pts

2. Hungary - 135 pts

3. China - 130 pts

4. Italy - 127,5 pts

5. Russia - 122,5 pts

6. Ukraine - 85 pts

7. Brazil - 82,5 pts

8. France - 81,25 pts

9. United States - 81,25 pts

10. Germany - 78,75 pts

[vinipereira 3,511]

Nathalie

 

 

[LDOG 2,474]

hace 1 hora, phelps dijo:

 

 

this shows how the sport of Fencing has grown in the last few years...now we can really say it's a true global discipline and one of the most widely spread all around the world (at least for what concerns the top level of play)...

 

the time when it was the home garden of the usual 4/5 powerhouses has long gone...

 

What countries could be added in the remaining events? USA, France, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Romania, some other european country and that's it? Maybe we will see a weird medal in men's epee. 

 

Good for Hong Kong but I don't know if this Brazil medal can be atributed to a global expansion, her fencing career has basically nothing to do with Brazil.

[Gianlu33 5,920]

Let's start with Borel-Fichera... And it's only the 1st round

[bestmen 2,917]

2 Bronze ? but in the thread of prediction we had to predict only 1

 

isn't the new rule of fencing ; the loosers of semi fight for the Bronze

[Vektor 3,326]

57 minutes ago, bestmen said:

2 Bronze ? but in the thread of prediction we had to predict only 1

 

isn't the new rule of fencing ; the loosers of semi fight for the Bronze

 

That's not a new rule. Fencing always had two bronze medalists outside the Olympics in the individual events. 

[Quasit 954]

So, the European champion and both bronze medallists out already, only the silver medallist (Santarelli) in the Round of 32.