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HBSC SVNS Challenger Series Stage 2/3 in Cape Town :
 
Men's Results:
 
11th Place:  36-12
9th Place:  24-10
7th Place:  15-5
5th Place:  35-14
3th Place:  28-15
Final:  12-7
 
Positions (2/3): Top 4 qualifies to the 2025-26 SVNS Series Playoffs
1-  34p
2-  34p
3-  32p
4-  28p
5-  26p
6-  20p
7-  14p
8-  13p
9-  10p (Eliminated)
10-  8p (Eliminated)
11-  7p (Eliminated)
12-  2p (Eliminated)
 
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Women's Results:
 
11th Place:  34-10  
9th Place:  29-5  
7th Place:  39-0
5th Place:  30-10
3th Place:  35-5
Final:  17-0
 
Positions (2/3): Top 4 qualifies to the 2025-26 SVNS Series Playoffs
1-  40p
2-  34p
3-  30p
4-  30p
5-  22p
6-  22p
7-  16p
8-  14p
9-  8p (Eliminated)
10-  6p (Eliminated)
11-  4p (Eliminated)
12-  2p (Eliminated)
 
Full Results: https://www.world.rugby/tournaments/challenger-series/2025/cape-town-2
 
Next and Final Stop: Krakow  11-12 April 2025. (Only Top 8 teams)

2025 Fencing PanAmerican Junior Championships in Asuncion, Paraguay  
 
Medal Table:
 
 8 / 5 / 4
 2 / 2 / 6
 1 / 1 / 1
 1 / 0 / 0
 0 / 1 / 1
 0 / 1 / 0
 0 / 1 / 0
 0 / 1 / 0
 0 / 0 / 3
 0 / 0 / 2
 0 / 0 / 1
 
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Medallists:
 
 
Junior Men's Individual Epee:
Gold:  Kruz Schembri
Silver:  Simon Lioznyansky
Bronze:  Junzhe (Simon) Shan &  Daniel Rubin

Junior Men's Individual Foil:
Gold:  Castor Kao
Silver:  Maximo Azuela
Bronze:  Leon Wujastyk &  Caleb Jeon

Junior Men's Individual Sabre:
Gold:  Nicolas Wang
Silver:  Lukas Eichhorn 
Bronze:  Emilio Vargas Escobar &  Carter Berrio
 
Junior Women's Individual Epee:
Gold:  Ruien Xiao
Silver:  Leehi Machulsky
Bronze:  Victoria Guerrero Hidalgo &  Jolie Korfonta

Junior Women's Individual Foil:
Gold:  Aileen Mi
Silver:  Sarah Mei
Bronze:  Ha-Eune Adelle Chun &  Audrey Yang

Junior Women's Individual Sabre:
Gold:  Katherine Andres
Silver:  Gabriela Maria Lin Hwang
Bronze:  Jun Liu Zhi &  Arianna Prieto Jimenez
 
 
Junior Men's Team Epee:
Gold:  United States (Fray, Imrek S., Imrek E. and Lioznyansky)
Silver:  Panama (Achurra, Caldito Chan, Dorati and Gomez Ng)
Bronze:  Argentina (Beauchamp, Fiamingo, Groupierre Ramiro and Zemborain Navajas)

Junior Men's Team Foil:
Gold:  United States (Hooshi, Jeon, Kao and Li)
Silver:  Ecuador (Aguinaga Procel T., Aguinaga Procel P., Chancusig Cacuango and Delgado Aguirre)
Bronze:  Canada (Chen, Li, Liu and Wujastyk)

Junior Men's Team Sabre:
Gold:  United States (Andres, Berrio, Cheong and Wang)
Silver:  Canada (Abbasi, Falcon-Korb, Noble and Tiagi)
Bronze:  Colombia (Anzola Contreras, Nino Villarraga, Pacheco Cortes and Vargas Escobar)
 
Junior Women's Team Epee:
Gold:  Canada (Sobus, Xiao R., Xiao N. and Yin)
Silver:  United States (Korfonta, Machulsky, Padhye and Wang)
Bronze:  Venezuela (Escobar Navarro, Guerrero Hidalgo, Perez Henriquez and Tuozzo Tortolero)

Junior Women's Team Foil:
Gold:  United States (Kong, Mei, Mi and Yang)
Silver:  Canada (Chun, Dong, Hu and Tang)
Bronze:  Mexico (Espinosa, Hernandez, Morales and Rodriguez)

Women's Individual Sabre:
Gold:  Mexico (Beltran, Chavez, Covarrubias and Gonzalez)
Silver:  United States (Andres C., Andres K. and Merchant)
Bronze:  Puerto Rico (Baez Feliciano, Blas Reyes, Bonis-Ramirez and Hwang)
 
 
Results page:
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/AEA4270D33D74EE4B92FA4AE7C2AF599#today

Continental Cups Results (Feb. 15 to Feb. 27)
 
All players with a Q qualified to the ITTF World Cup in Macao  (14-20 April)
 
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- Oceania Cup in Melbourne :
 
Mens Singles:
Gold:  Nicholas Lum (Q)
Silver:  Finn Luu (Q)
Bronze:  Alfred Dela Pena (Q) &  Dean Shu (Q)
 
Womens Singles:
Gold:  Liu Yangzi
Silver:  Constantina Psihogios (Q) 
Bronze:  Li Chunli (Q) &  Jee Min-hyung
Also Qualified:  Maylis Giret &  Jocelyn Lam
 
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- Pan American Cup in San Francisco :
 
Men's Singles:
Gold:  Kanak Jha (Q)
Silver:  Eugene Wang (Q)
Bronze:  Eric Jouti (Q) &  Horacio Cifuentes (Q)
 
Women's Singles:
Gold:  Bruna Takahashi (Q)
Silver:  Lily Zhang (Q)
Bronze:  Amy Wang (Q) &  Mo Zhang (Q)
 
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- Asia Cup in Shenzhen :
 
Men's Singles:
Gold:  Wang Chuqin (Q)
Silver:  Liang Jingkun (Q)
Bronze:  Lin Shidong (Q) &  Lin Yun-ju (Q)
 
Women's Singles:
Gold:  Wang Manyu (Q)
Silver:  Sun Yingsha (Q)
Bronze:  Chen Xingtong (Q) &  Kuai Man (Q)
 
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- Europe Top 16 Cup in Montreux :
 
Men's Singles:
Gold:  Alexis Lebrun (Q)
Silver:  Darko Jorgic (Q)
Bronze:  Patrick Franziska (Q) &  Truls Moregard (Q)
 
Women's Singles:
Gold:  Han Ying (Q)
Silver:  Elizabeta Samara (Q)
Bronze:  Shan Xiaona (Q) &  Sabine Winter (Q)
 
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- African Cup in Tunis :
 
Men's Singles:
Gold:  Omar Assar (Q)
Silver:  Quadri Aruna (Q)
Bronze:  Abdel-Kader Salifou (Q) &  Ylane Batix (Q)
 
Women's Singles:
Gold:  Hana Goda (Q)
Silver:  Dina Meshref (Q)
Bronze:  Fatimo Bello (Q) &  Mariam Al-Hodaby (Q)
 

I loved September 5 but one thing bugged me: why they included images from Cuba x URSS at Moscow 1980 during the announcement that there was still some volleyball matches going on. Probably nobody else noticed that and obviously it has not hampered the film on the slightest, but still...

Ticket sales started today for those who registered, we have our tickets 
 
Cross-country skiing: men and women's sprint qualifying and finals (we went for the qualifying but finals are included on the same ticket so that's awesome!), women's 10k freestyle and the team sprint (again, qualifying and finals)
 
And the biathlon women's sprint.
 
And that filled up our 25 tickets

My friends at the "Keep the Flame Alive" podcast have a review of "The Fire Inside"
https://flamealivepod.com/movie-club-the-fire-inside/

i cant believe that Watanabe is still with the idea of a 5-continent olympics 

I still can't believe there are people who are going to vote for Watanabe. 

I feel like not having the shooting events separated by gender is actually pretty reasonable? In Paris the gold medalist of the women’s event had a higher final score than the gold medalist in the men’s event in the 50m rifle and the 10m pistol (and multiple women had high enough scores to make the men’s final).
 
Olympic shootgun shooting used to be open and it was fine.
 
Also think of the bright side: no more mixed team events in shooting!

March-April 2026

the junior panam were delayed to August 9-23

Jose Gil Torres, the only gold medallist hehe
 

Twitch streamer  Spreen made his debut as a starter in the Argentinian Football First Division league and was replaced 40 seconds after the start. He played for Deportivo Riestra in a match against current first position team Velez.

Twitch streamer  Spreen made his debut as a starter in the Argentinian Football First Division league and was replaced 40 seconds after the start. He played for Deportivo Riestra in a match against current first position team Velez.

2024 European Championships | Linz, Austria   (15-20 october)
 
Men’s Singles:
1.  Alexis Lebrun
2.  Benedikt Duda
3.  Dimitrij Ovtcharov
3.  Truls Moregard
5.  Felix Lebrun
5.  Patrick Franziska
5.  Dang Qiu
5.  Anton Kallberg
 
Women’s Singles:
1.  Sofia Polcanova
2.  Bernadette Szocs
3.  Maria Xiao
3.  Nina Mittelham
5.  Charlotte Lutz
5.  Jia Nan Yuan
5.  Yuan Wan
5.  Sabine Winter
 
Men’s Doubles:
1.  Alexis Lebrun & Felix Lebrun
2.  Anton Kallberg & Truls Moregard
3.  Maciej Kolodziejczyk &  Vladislav Ursu
3.  Mattias Falck & Kristian Karlsson
 
Women’s Doubles:
1.  Hana Matelova &  Barbora Balazova
2.  Sofia Polcanova &  Bernadette Szocs
3.  Izabela Lupulesku & Sabina Surjan
3.  Natalia Bajor &  Tatiana Kukulkova
 
Mixed Doubles:
1.  Alvaro Robles & Maria Xiao
2.  Robert Gardos & Sofia Polcanova
3.  Simon Gauzy & Prithika Pavade
3.  Annett Kaufmann & Patrick Franziska
 
 

2024 Pan American Championships | San Salvador, El Salvador  (13-20 october)
 
Men’s Singles:
1.  Hugo Calderano
2.  Vitor Ishiy  
3.  Horacio Cifuentes
3. Leonardo Iizuka 
5.  Kanak Jha
5.  Guilherme Teodoro
5.  Francisco Sanchi
5.  Edward Ly
 
Women’s Singles:
1.  Adriana Diaz
2.  Bruna Takahashi
3.  Giulia Takahashi
3.  Amy Wang
5.  Laura Watanabe
5.  Jessica Reyes Lai
5.  Paulina Vega
5.  Zhiying Zeng
 
 
Men’s Doubles:
1.  Horacio Cifuentes & Santiago Lorenzo
2.  Andy Pereira & Jorge Campos
3.  Vitor Ishiy & Guilherme Teodoro
3.  Edward Ly & Simeon Martin
 
Women’s Doubles:
1.  Giulia Takahashi & Laura Watanabe
2.  Paulina Vega & Daniela Ortega
3.  Clio Barcenas & Arantxa Cossio Aceves
3.  Daniela Fonseca & Estela Crespo
 
Mixed Doubles:
1.  Guilherme Teodoro & Giulia Takahashi
2.  Hugo Calderano & Bruna Takahashi
3.  Jishan Liang & Amy Wang
3.  Nicolas Burgos & Paulina Vega
 
Men’s Teams:
1.  United States (Naresh N., Liang, Naresh S., Jha)
2.  Argentina (Cifuentes, Lorenzo, Bentancor, Sanchi)
3.  Cuba (Perez, Martinez, Campos, Pereira)
3.  Chile (Martinez, Gomez, Burgos, Olave)
 
Women’s Teams:
1.  Cuba (Perez Gonzalez, Fonseca, Aguiar, Crespo)
2.  Chile (Zeng, Morales, Vega, Ortega)
3.  Brazil (Takahashi B., Watanabe, Strassburger, Takahashi G.)
3.  United States (Reyes Lai, Ke, Moyland, Wang)

Ah ok, my bad.

mm no, not him

Next month, in the Challenger 100 in Montevideo , retired professional football player Diego Forlan will make his circuit debut in the doubles draw alongside argentinian  Federico Coria

And as promised the qualification manual: https://www.panamsports.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Manual-de-Sistemas-de-Clasifcacion-V6.pdf
 
a lot of the sports are missing fwiw

yeah!!! just watched it, he ended up 42°. The fact that he qualified for a world championship is great and we are all super proud, he spent all year training in Mexico and now he is probably back in the next days

my cousin competes tomorrow in the Mens Junior race 

my cousin competes tomorrow in the Mens Junior race 

my cousin competes tomorrow in the Mens Junior race 

my cousin competes tomorrow in the Mens Junior race