Fencing at the European Games 2023

[Mecki83 155]

23 hours ago, El Analyzer said:

Egyptian Fencing federation will skip 2 women teams in world championship (cost reduction following Egypt crazy inflation), not confirmed yet but potentially they will skip women foil and women Sabre !

Skipping women foil is a very questionnable decision. 

That will very likely cost them the Olympic qualification.

[El Analyzer 316]

9 minutes ago, Mecki83 said:

Skipping women foil is a very questionnable decision. 

That will very likely cost them the Olympic qualification.

Agree with you, still not final decision but high likely to happen.

The idea is:

Foil -  Yara Elsharkawy can qualify as the top African athlete

Sabre – Sawsan Bodiaf (Algeria) will qualify as top African athlete and that will make it easy for Nada Hafez to qualify from zone qualification

While Epee, the top athlete would be Alexandra Ndolo (who switched nationality from Germany to Kenya) and the zone qualification is not guaranteed and several athletes from Morocco and Algeria are more favourable, therefore Egypt relies on team qualification

 

I can see their point but feeling sad for other athletes in other weapons as this decision killing their dream. But also would be a very good chance for Germany or Hungary to qualify (or maybe other nation).

[Mecki83 155]

23 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

I can see their point but feeling sad for other athletes in other weapons as this decision killing their dream. But also would be a very good chance for Germany or Hungary to qualify (or maybe other nation).

Indeed a great chance for a further European country to qualify.
Especially for Germany it would be a shame if only Leonie Ebert or Anne Sauer could qualify.
Unfortunately they are missing a third good fencer which is making team qualification more difficult.

[El Analyzer 316]

On 7/6/2023 at 11:44 AM, Mecki83 said:

Indeed a great chance for a further European country to qualify.
Especially for Germany it would be a shame if only Leonie Ebert or Anne Sauer could qualify.
Unfortunately they are missing a third good fencer which is making team qualification more difficult.

Egyptian fencing federation has announced the team entries for 2023 world championship

they have skipped only women Sabre leaving the floor to their african rival Algeria

that means women foil team is up for the competition 

[Mecki83 155]

13 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

Egyptian fencing federation has announced the team entries for 2023 world championship

they have skipped only women Sabre leaving the floor to their african rival Algeria

that means women foil team is up for the competition 

Good decision for Egyptian fencing. But it makes the European battle for quotas even harder.

[El Analyzer 316]

1 hour ago, Mecki83 said:

Good decision for Egyptian fencing. But it makes the European battle for quotas even harder.

Exactly they have high potential to get the spot now.. but not guaranteed though

I am expecting they will finish the ranking between 13-18th depending on their performance in the world championship and other World Cup competitions 

[Mecki83 155]

4 minutes ago, El Analyzer said:

Exactly they have high potential to get the spot now.. but not guaranteed though

I am expecting they will finish the ranking between 13-18th depending on their performance in the world championship and other World Cup competitions 

Crucial will be if they manage to win in Round of 32 (against Singapore I assume).