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@MHSN it looks that Zabiollah Poorshab has broken many hearts in Italy...our commentator is saying that many girls lost their minds when they saw him last week in training here in Italy...and the commentator herself has said he's one of her favourites (she said he's a beautiful man, too)...

and Germany's Johanna Kneer wins the second Bronze Medal match in the women's -68kg...

by the way, arriba Mexico! @mrv86 Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita won the Bronze Medal in the women's -68kg...

our usual stream...PMG Sport page on Youtube should work as for the World Champs (probably only with VPN once again)... p.s. don't get too mad when you watch Rozita Alipour's bout...

oh, and finally K-Fisch gives Italy some hopes...

and D-Fisch dead last so far... surprise, surprise with this kind of weather...

it's gonna be one of those so fair races... really the best place to have the world champs...

quite a common reaction, I fear...

Norwegian or Swedish TV, I guess (if you have a good VPN -Hola doesn't work with them- you can easily watch them in streaming)...... maybe some Russian Match!TV channel...

so far, we have ITA & JPN winning Bronze in the Women's Individual Kata; BRA & GER in the Women's Individual kumite, -50kg; ITA & JPN in the women's -55kg; double Japanese Bronze in the men's Individual Kata; KAZ & RUS in the men's Individual Kumite, -60kg; double Bronze for Kazakhstan in the men's -67kg and finally TUR won the first Bronze Medal match in the women's -61kg (with a very, very controversial decision, imho)... 2 or 3 good matches (above all, the ITA vs KAZ Bronze Medal contest in the men's -67kg, which ended up with a 8-8 tie and KAZ won by Senshu) and the rest...well, let's say it was not so good... p.s. FRA won the second Bronze Medal match in the women's -61kg...

Day #3 (Final) Recap On the last day of the Tel Aviv Grand Prix, it was France to get the most of the honors, with 2 Gold Medals (Axel Clerget in the men's -90kg and Alexandre Iddir in the men's -100kg)... meanwhile the Host Nation consolidated themselves on top of the final medal table with Or Sasson's triumph in the men's Super-Heavyweights (+100kg)... on the women's side, the last 2 Gold Medals went to Klara Apotekar in the -78kg class and Iryna Kindzerska in the +78kg respectively... and this means that Israel topped the medal standings with 4 Gold Medals, followed by Italy and France with 2 Gold Medals each. The remaining 6 Gold Medals were shared between Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Kosovo, Slovenia and Sweden. Full Results here: https://live.ijf.org/gp_isr2019/results

Men's Team Foil (Tokyo, JPN) Final Results Gold: Italy Silver: United States Bronze: South Korea Semifinals: Italy b. Russia 45-29 United States b. South Korea 45-32 Bronze Medal Match: South Korea b. Russia 45-29 Gold Medal Match: Italy b. United States 45-43 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/208/results/rank

Women's Individual Sabre (Salt Lake City, USA) Final Results Gold: Cecilia Berder Silver: Anna Marton Bronze: Irene Vecchi & Sofya Velikaya Semifinals: Berder b. Velikaya 15-7 Marton b. Vecchi 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Berder b. Marton 15-14  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/470/results/rank

awful day #2 for Italy..not a single athlete made it to tomorrow's finals... and more in general, the new Kata scoring system in the men's division is definitely going to keep all the non-Japanese men (apart from Quintero Capdevila) out of the final round more often than not...before you could always hope for a reasonably favourable draw, now you always have to cope with at least 4 or 5 of them if you want to make it through to the Sunday's sessions...

women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal Match: Ayumi Uekusa vs Nancy Garcia Bronze Medal Match #1: Hamideh Abbasli vs Ayaka Saito Bronze Medal Match #2: Risa Sugimoto vs Shaaban Okila Menna men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal Match: Gogita Arkania vs Saleh Abazari Bronze Medal Match #1: Aliaksei Vodchyts vs Mehdi Filali Bronze Medal Match #2: Sajad Ganjzadeh vs Tarek Mahmoud Taha

no, for instance Andrijana Vasovic actually made the bronze medal bout in the same class...

the next women's epee competition is schedule for tomorrow in Doha (and since it's a Grand Prix event, this week there's only the Individual tournament)... the next Team event is scheduled for February, 10th in Barcelona (ESP)... p.s. by the way, you can find the entire fencing world cup schedule at post no.2 of this same thread...

yes, Jessica Guo Zi Jia, birth date June, 23rd 2005... today she lost in the quarterfinals to Ysaora Thibus (FRA), but in the round of 32 she won 15-10 against nothing less than Lee Kiefer (USA), current no.3 in the World Ranking... let's say that she's quite a talented girl... still, we must see what's gonna happen in the next few years...girls' growing age is always a lottery, both physically and mentally...

Women's Individual Foil (St.Maur, FRA) Final Results Gold: Inna Deriglazova Silver: Alice Volpi Bronze: Francesca Palumbo & Ysaora Thibus Semifinals: Volpi b. Palumbo 15-11 Deriglazova b. Thibus 15-12 Gold Medal Match: Deriglazova b. Volpi 15-12  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/127/results/rank

women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal Match: Kayo Someya vs Elena Quirici Bronze Medal Match #1: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Johanna Kneer Bronze Medal Match #2: Sachiko Paulina Ramos Akita vs Cristina Vizcaino Gonzalez

thanks... fixed all the names...

men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal Match: Anton Isakau vs Mahdi Ghararizadeh Bronze Medal Match #1: Rikito Shimada vs Zabiollah Poorshab Bronze Medal Match #2: Ugur Aktas vs Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan

and Dahlmeier today didn't die on the track over the last 500m, so she broke the possible 1 & 2 for Italy... but who cares? we're still 1st & 3rd...time to party!