Fencing 2017 Discussion Thread

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Today we had a good chance for our first ever gold medal at the Asian Championships, OK maybe not the first , I don't have old results but at least the first gold medal after a long long time but we finished with a silver and a bronze. we have a good Sabre team now but Korea is just better and they have the individual and team title in Asia in this event for a long time.

 

today Rahbari beat two Koreans before losing to Gu Bongil in the final. out of our 4 Sabrists, they only lost to each other or the Koreans !

[phelps 7,687]

the new World Cup season started yesterday in Cancun (MEX)...

 

the women's Individual Foil was on stage and Lee Kiefer (USA) edged out a very strong Italian team (who else?)...

 

Gold: Lee Kiefer (USA)

Silver: Alice Volpi (ITA)

Bronze: Arianna Errigo (ITA) & Martina Batini (ITA)

 

Semifinals Results:

Volpi b. Errigo 15-7

Kiefer b. Batini 15-7

 

Gold Medal Match Result:

Kiefer b. Volpi 15-14

 

Today's program continues with the women's Team Event...

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/125/results/rank

[phelps 7,687]

Women's Team Foil in Cancun

 

Gold: Russia

Silver: Italy

Bronze: United States

 

Semifinals Results:

Italy b. Canada 45-25

Russia b. United States 45-44

 

Bronze Medal Match Result:

United States b. Canada 33-26

 

Gold Medal Match Result:

Russia b. Italy 45-42

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/492/results/rank

[phelps 7,687]

this weekend Women's Epee (in Tallinn, EST) and Men's Foil (Cairo, EGY) are on stage in the 2017/2018 Fencing World Cup...

 

Foconi (ITA), who defeated Imboden (USA) by a score of 15-11 and Kruse (GBR), who defeated Cheung (HKG) 15-6 are the finalists in the Men's Individual Foil event...

 

meanwhile the Women's Individual Epee is already over...

 

here are the final results:

 

Gold: Mara Navarria (ITA)

Silver: Tatiana Gudkova (RUS)

Bronze: Julia Beljajeva (EST) & Emese Szasz-Kovacs (HUN)

 

Semifinals:

Navarria b. Szasz-Kovacs 15-13

Gudkova b. Beljajeva 15-8

 

Gold Medal Match:

Navarria b. Gudkova 15-12

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/80/results/rank

Edited October 21, 2017 by phelps

[phelps 7,687]

Men's Individual Foil (Cairo, EGY)

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Richard Kruse (GBR)

Silver: Alessio Foconi (ITA)

Bronze: Cheung Ka Long (HKG) & Race Imboden (USA)

 

Semifinals:

Foconi b. Imboden 15-11

Kruse b. Cheung 15-6

 

Gold Medal Match:

Kruse b. Foconi 15-5

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/135/results/rank

[phelps 7,687]

Women's Team Epee in Tallinn

 

Gold: France

Silver: Italy

Bronze: China

 

Semifinals Results:

Italy b. China 44-43

France b. Germany 45-43

 

Bronze Medal Match Result:

China b. Germany 32-31

 

Gold Medal Match Result:

France b. Italy 43-39

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/751/results/rank

[phelps 7,687]

Men's Team Foil in Cairo

 

Gold: United States

Silver: Russia

Bronze: Italy

 

Semifinals Results:

Russia b. France 44-43

United States b. Italy 45-42

 

Bronze Medal Match Result:

Italy b. France 45-41

 

Gold Medal Match Result:

United States b. Russia 45-26

 

Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition:

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/205/results/rank

[phelps 7,687]

decent results through the entire weekend for Italy...podium places in all the competitions and nice win by Mara Navarria in the women's individual epee (today's team silver in the women's epee is especially good and encouraging, since this is our worst discipline since many years and because finally we have a couple of new faces in our roster...even if I don't understand why they still chose Alice Clerici instead of the surely stronger Eleonora De Marchi among the youngsters) ...

Fencing is always our best chance to shine in the world of sports...

[thepharoah 2,405]

 

Miles Chamley Watson and Race Imboden knelled to their flag during national American anthem yesterday after American team won team gold medal , so Fencing also joined other sports in showing protest against Trump's politics and Racial Discrimination 

Edited October 23, 2017 by thepharoah

[phelps 7,687]

On 23/10/2017 at 14:05, thepharoah said:

 

Miles Chamley Watson and Race Imboden knelled to their flag during national American anthem yesterday after American team won team gold medal , so Fencing also joined other sports in showing protest against Trump's politics and Racial Discrimination 

 

yeah, but they didn't get the same attention of the NBA and NFL players...

actually, I think that nobody in the US does know what they did...

 

 

by the way, this week it's time for the men's Epee and the women's Sabre to start their respective World Cup season campaign...

 

in today's Individual events, we're in front of a Ukranian festival in Bern (men's Epee), with 3 of them reaching the semifinals (to be contested later this afternoon, at 5 p.m CET - live streaming available on Youtube...the link on the official site of the event: HERE)...

 

in Orleans (women's Sabre) we are at the quarterfinal stage (at 6 p.m. CET - also in this case live streaming available through the official website of the competition: HERE) and we still have 3 Italians, 2 French women and 1 girl each from Romania, Poland and Hungary left...

to be noticed, the Russian complete failure and Arianna Errigo's best result in a Sabre World Cup event so far (she went out in the round of last #16, losing only 14-15 against Manon Brunet of France)...