Fencing 2016 Discussion Thread

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On 13/3/2016 at 8:47 AM, Benolympique said:

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Which makes 18/18 for France and Russia.Russia will have a full squad without a doubt. We may join them, but it'll be close. Before the last GP, Anstett is the last Top 14 qualifier, and Rousset the last european one. 

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I really hope that GB will win a gold medal in mens foil in Rio. We will have a small team (as expected), but at least we wont have any tourists.

I expect 1 medal and i would be very happy with 2 medals. I am sure that we will have at least one team in Tokyo (our mens sabre team should qualify), but this could also be the only positive thing to say about our future in fencing. Joppich, Heidemann and Golubytskyi all will retire before Tokyo, so we have to hope that talents like Ebert or Stahlberg will take their place. I expect a lot from France and USA in Rio, i think those nations will each win 2-3 gold medals.

Edited March 14, 2016 by OlympicsFan

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After losing few times in quarterfinals (mostly 15-14) Abedini finally made it to the semifinal (and later to the final) in a Grand Prix (or World Cup) event and with this he made history to win Iran's first ever medal in this level of competition.

 

he also qualified himself and his teammate Pakdaman for Rio

[phelps 7,670]

Seoul's Events

 

Women's Sabre

 

Gold: Yana Egorian (RUS)

Silver: Ji Yeon Seo (KOR)

Bronze: Vassilik Vougiouka (GRE) & Sofya Velikaya (RUS)

 

Men's Sabre

 

Gold: Eli Dershwitz (USA)

Silver: Mojtaba Abedini (IRI)

Bronze: Diego Occhiuzzi (ITA) & Nikolay Kovalev (RUS)

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starting tomorrow and going through to April 10th, the 2016 World Cadet and Junior Championships...

 

Official Website (with the full schedule and the link to the results and live scoring/streaming pages)...

 

http://bourges2016.com/

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2016 World Cadet & Junior Championships - Day 1

 

Women's Cadets Individual Foil

 

Gold: Sylvie Binder (USA)

Silver: Sera Azuma (JPN)

Bronze: Lara Bertola (ITA) & Stefani Deschner (USA)

 

Men's Cadets Individual Sabre

 

Gold: Matteo Neri (ITA)

Silver: Erwin Cai (USA)

Bronze: Vladislav Pozdnyakov (RUS) & Artem Tselyshev (RUS)

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2016 World Cadet & Junior Championships - Day 2

 

Women's Cadets Individual Sabre

 

Gold: Lau Ywen (SIN)

Silver: Larissa Eifler (GER)

Bronze: Sarah Noutcha (FRA) & Liza Pusztai (HUN)

 

Men's Cadets Individual Epee

 

Gold: Daniel De Mola (ITA)

Silver: Gianpaolo Buzzacchino (ITA)

Bronze: Jakub Jurka (CZE) & Adrien Thein-Sandler (USA)

[OlympicsFan 858]

I really dont know whats going on with Ebert ... just the fact that she still competes in this age category shows that she isnt very confident. By now she should dominate at this level, but it looks as if she at the moment isnt better than 2 or 3 years ago. I hope she will recover soon! 

On the other hand very good for Eifler finally, she always was a big talent but never was able to show it at the big stage. 

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Todays semifinals:

Mens foil (starting at 19:45 CET live on Youtube):

 Borodachev vs.  Marini

 Tourette vs.  Klein

Womens epee (starting at 19:00 CET live on Youtube):

 Bozza vs.  Petri

 Cagnin vs.  Stewart

 

Some observations:

Russia, France and the big asian nations seem to be weaker than in the past. Italy and USA are still very strong. Singapore is extremely strong so far and in my opinion the biggest surprise. Poland seems to have a pretty good depth, but they are a bit unlucky so far. 

From a german perspective:

We really improved on cadet level, i never thought that we could win 2 individual medals "without" Ebert.

Especially in womens sabre (where we finally seem to have a good talent) and mens foil (where we had the number 1 seed and one other athlete in the semifinal) the results are very positive for us.

Its still annoying that there are no team events on cadet level, this year we couldve won medals in womens sabre and mens epee.

 

Edited April 3, 2016 by OlympicsFan

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2016 World Cadet & Junior Championships - Day 3

 

Women's Cadets Individual Epee

 

Gold: Alessandra Bozza (ITA)

Silver: Tatijana Stewart (USA)

Bronze: Beatrice Cagnin (ITA) & Renata Petri (HUN)

 

Men's Cadets Individual Foil

 

Gold: Geoffrey Tourette (USA)

Silver: Kirill Borodachev (RUS)

Bronze: Luis Klein (GER) & Tommaso Marini (ITA)