Fencing FIE World Championships 2019

[dareza 911]

What a year for Kharlan! World and European champion. And one more silver for Velikaya.

[dareza 911]

Still can't believe how amateur last point for Velikaya. Strange really.

[Quasit 955]

Well done Mepstead making it this far. Lefort clearly the best today, awesome performance.

 

Edited July 20, 2019 by Quasit

[Vektor 3,326]

Top 10 nations after 6 events

 

1. Russia - 506,25 pts

2. Italy - 435 pts

3. France - 431,25 pts

4. South Korea - 425 pts

5. Hungary - 366,88 pts

6. Ukraine - 325 pts

7. United States - 273,75 pts

8. China - 260 pts

9. Japan - 239,38 pts

10. Germany - 190,01 pts

[phelps 8,687]

Today's recap...

 

 

Women's Individual Sabre

 

Gold: Olga Kharlan

Silver: Sofya Velikaya

Bronze: Theodora Gkountoura & Bianca Pascu

 

Semifinals

Velikaya b. Gkountoura 15-11

Kharlan b. Pascu 15-5

 

Gold Medal Match

Kharlan b. Velikaya 15-14

 

Full Ranking (and Results) here:

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

 

 

Men's Individual Foil

 

Gold: Enzo Lefort

Silver: Marcus Mepstead

Bronze: Son Young Ki & Dmitry Zherebchenko

 

Semifinals

Mepstead b. Son 15-12

Lefort b. Zherebchenko 15-7

 

Gold Medal Match

Lefort b. Mepstead 15-6

 

Full Ranking (and Results) here:

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

[phelps 8,687]

so, the individual events are over...with USA, Italy and (on a second row) Japan being the big losers...and, on the opposite side, a lot of surprising and unexpected medallists...

 

for Italy, the stats are devastating...the worst results in about 30 years (last time without a single individual finalist, Lausanne 1987)...

 

hopefully, we could (should) turn things around in the team events, that this year are also a lot more important, as they're the key event on the route to the Olympic qualification...

[dareza 911]

And again Fiamingo..... .. She is soooo bad really. Thanks to her probably quota for Italy in women's team epee.

[dareza 911]

Ukraine just destroyed Poland. Great championship for them.

[Gianlu33 5,999]

Italy defeated USA in a very close match

Not a great match for us, but at last ee are in semifinals

[Vektor 3,326]

As I expected it, our women's foil team is way too weak for an Olympic qualification. Let's hope that we can still qualify three teams.