Fencing FIE Cadet & Junior World Championships 2018

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unbelievable success by the Italian guys...

they've been able to beat a real super-team from Russia with people like Lokhanov, Pozdniakov and Kostenko, all of them multiple European and World title holders and already well established specialists among the senior ranks...

that's what we can call "a big upset"...

 

and the US girls almost did the same against the mighty Russians...they've just been unlucky with the final hit...

 

so, the Sabre events are also over...and in this discipline it's been mostly a Russian fest...in fact, they won 3 out of 6 titles, meanwhile Italy, Hungary and Romania won 1 Gold medal each...

 

therefore, after 2 weapons, Russia are leading the medal table with 4 Gold medals followed by Italy with 3 and Hungary with 2, while France, Hong Kong and Romania have 1 Gold medal each.

USA, POL, KOR, KAZ, JPN, MEX, ESP, GER are also in the medal table, but with no Gold...

 

starting tomorrow, it's time for the Foil competitions, which will lead this year's Worlds to an end...

First on the stage, the women and men's Junior Individual events...

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World Junior Championships - Women's Individual Foil

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Yuka Ueno (JPN)

Silver: Martina Favaretto (ITA)

Bronze: Eva Lacheray (FRA) & Lauren Scruggs (USA)

 

Semifinals:

Favaretto b. Scruggs 15-11

Ueno b. Lacheray 15-12

 

Gold Medal Match:

Ueno b. Favaretto 15-14

 

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

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/225/results/rank

Edited April 8, 2018 by phelps

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World Junior Championships - Men's Individual Foil

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Nick Itkin (USA)

Silver: Tommaso Marini (ITA)

Bronze: Grigoriy Semenyuk (RUS) & Sidarth Kumbla (USA)

 

Semifinals:

Marini b. Semenyuk 15-10

Itkin b. Kumbla 14-13

 

Gold Medal Match:

Itkin b. Marini 15-11

 

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

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/226/results/rank

Edited April 8, 2018 by phelps

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talking about inexperience and lack of personality...that's Martina Favaretto...she literally threw away the World Junior title (being herself still a Cadet) because of that...

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and it's 2 silver medals for Italy...

not bad, but it could (should) have gone a lot better...

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World Cadet Championships - Women's Individual Foil

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Yuka Ueno (JPN)

Silver: May Tieu (USA)

Bronze: Martina Favaretto (ITA) & Delphine Devore (USA)

 

Semifinals:

Ueno b. Favaretto WD (Injury)

Tieu b. Devore 15-8

 

Gold Medal Match:

Ueno b. Tieu 14-7

 

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

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/237/results/rank

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World Cadet Championships - Men's Individual Foil

 

Final Results:

 

Gold: Kenji Bravo (USA)

Silver: Marcello Olivares (USA)

Bronze: Diego Cervantes (MEX) & Maciej Bem (POL)

 

Semifinals:

Bravo b. Cervantes 15-9

Olivares b. Bem 15-8

 

Gold Medal Match:

Bravo b. Olivares 15-11

 

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

http://fie.org/competitions/2018/238/results/rank

Edited April 8, 2018 by phelps

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and according to my quick calculations, these should be the fencers qualified for the Foil events at the YOG 2018...

 

Women's Foil:
Martina Favaretto (ITA), Europe #1
Rebeca Candescu (ROU), Europe #2
Christelle Joy Ko (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1
Yuka Ueno (JPN), Asia & Oceania #2
May Tieu (USA) Pan-America #1
Magdalena Lawska (POL), Europe #3
Karolina Zsoldosi (HUN), Europe #4
Anabella Acurero Gonzalez (VEN), Pan-America #2
Fu Yingying (CHN), Asia & Oceania #3
Noah Hany (EGY), Africa

Men's Foil:
Diego Cervantes (MEX), Pan-America #1
Kenji Bravo (USA), Pan-America #2
Maciej Bem (POL), Europe #1
Chan Pak Hei (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1
Armand Spichiger (FRA), Europe #2
Filippo Macchi (ITA), Europe #3
Xu Jie (CHN), Asia & Oceania #2
Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen (DEN), Europe #4
Kwon Jung Sung (KOR), Asia & Oceania #3
Loaay Marouf (EGY), Africa

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in addition to the first 10 athletes per weapon (max 1 per NOC), 3 more men and 3 more women will get their spot at the YOG 2018 based on a very controversial (and subject to different interpretations) ranking...

 

those places should go to:

 

Veronika Bieleszova (CZE), Europe (Women's Epee)

Katina Proestakis (CHI), Pan-America (Women's Foil)

Chen Yi-Tung (TPE), Asia (Men's Foil)

Christiaan Bester (RSA), Africa (Men's Epee)

 

meanwhile I have absolutely no idea of how to spread the 2 spots reserved to Oceania: according to the World Champs and the Asia & Oceania Continental Champs results, Australia should get a place in the Women's Foil (their best event in Verona) and the same should happen to New Zealand, who only participated in that competition...

but this would break the "max 1 per weapon" rule...

so, there's a chance that AUS would be forced to select someone in the men or women's Sabre, meanwhile, if they want to give the second spot to Oceania at any cost, they can only let them participate in the only event they entered in both the World and Continental Champs (which is the Women's Foil)...

 

therefore, I guess it's better to wait for some official comunication before taking this list for granted...

 

 

[thepharoah 2,413]

nice to see that 4 Americans who won medals yesterday in both Foil Cadet events are coached by 2 Egyptian coaches Amgad Khazbak former coach of Egyptian team and Tamer Tahoun in women's side former Olympian and African champion