Fencing FIE World Championships 2025

[Illya 590]

6 minutes ago, phelps said:

Cristino's bronze is a good result only because it's her first world championship and her first season at the top level, but she can heavily regret because of how she lost against Ranvier and because she lost against such a weaker fencer like the French woman (seeing her in the GMM for the second time in her career is the death of fencing, she's one of the weakest medallists ever)

ps Harvey is another fencer who's normally overestimated because she won medals nobody really expected from her

the fact that she struggled in the early rounds means nothing, most likely she was really nervous because this was her first experience in such kind of competition (and maybe she also undersetimated a bit Polozniuk)

Batini is a shame of a fencer...she was 10-3 ahead against Kiefer after 3 minutes of played and yet she managed to lose without even trying to fight in the last hits

Errigo...no comment, she always finds a way to disappoint her fans when it really matters

finally, Favaretto dominated the season, easily beat Kiefer twice in their last couple of head to head in the world cup events and then she fails just when we get to season climax (home Europeans, not participating for an alleged injury, when she could have started and win a couple of rounds and win the world cup instead of leaving it on Kiefer's dish and these world champs, when she never fenced at her best)

so, to me the glass is at least 75% empty...I just can't be satidfied with these results

let's see if they can at least win the team event, but it would just be a small payback, the bare minimum

I think Italy can win, because USA is horrible except for Kiefer - Scruggs flopped almost all season, Jaelyn is too young. France isn't that good without Ysaora, Canada lacked third girl, Japan is unstable, others is no contenders, although it's WChs and anything could happen

[phelps 8,640]

women's Team Epee

 

Gold:  France

Silver:  AIN ( Russia)

Bronze:  South Korea

 

Semifinals

 

France b. Italy 45-32

AIN b. South Korea 45-35

 

Bronze Medal Match

 

South Korea b. Italy 37-31

 

Gold Medal Match

 

France b. AIN 41-32

 

Full Results & Rankings

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/7B4D86BBEE9F46E6B9BC14E0C2593C4E

[phelps 8,640]

1 minute ago, Illya said:

I think Italy can win, because USA is horrible except for Kiefer - Scruggs flopped almost all season, Jaelyn is too young. France isn't that good without Ysaora, Canada lacked third girl, Japan is unstable, others is no contenders, although it's WChs and anything could happen

I'm more afraid of our girls messing it up because of the pressure (and they have a lot of pressure on them, especially after last year's Olympics)

still, USA are always dangerous (look at Today's men's final...they almost won it despite Meinhardt and an overall poor performance because of a couple of flops by Macchi and Marini both taking a 10-2 stint)

[copravolley 634]

We've secured our first gold medal in men's foil but 4 place in women's épée is a disappointment. This won't be a great World Championship for us, but at least we'll salvage our honor – in my opinion: 6 medals with 2 golds, would be an acceptable result. Women's foil – we need gold here, plus 5 more chances (maybe without sabre women in teams). Maybe the trend will reverse and we'll be at our best at the Olympics, but a bit worse at the World Championships? I hope...

[Faramir 515]

Interesting, India defeated Canada to advance to the round of 16 in men's team sabre.

 

And in men's epee there's a match between siblings starting now between the Tulen brothers.

[Josh 13,429]

22 minutes ago, Faramir said:

Interesting, India defeated Canada to advance to the round of 16 in men's team sabre.

 

And in men's epee there's a match between siblings starting now between the Tulen brothers.

All-time low 

[Federer91 3,372]

Yoana Ilieva has a good draw to make the 1/2 and potentially face Egorian. 

[Makedonas 2,239]

Georgiadou and Gkountoura both lost in the round of 64 

[Faramir 515]

Men's epee semifinals:

Kano - Yamada

Siklosi - Koshman

 

 

Women's sabre semifinals:

( ) Egorian - Pan

Cieslar - Komashchuk

 

Edited July 27, 2025 by Faramir

[Illya 590]

7 minutes ago, Faramir said:

Men's epee semifinals:

Kano - Yamada

Siklosi - Koshman

 

 

Women's sabre semifinals:

( ) Egorian - Pan

Cieslar - Komashchuk

 

Two medals for Ukraine and Ilieva didn't make a podium, seems like a dream for me 

Edited July 27, 2025 by Illya