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Russian day in Verona...2 Sabre events and 2 Gold medals for them... for Italy, despite a not so good overall team performance, still a couple of (very lucky, especially Lucarini's) medals, which is always a very respectable result... Tomorrow, it's always Individual Sabre time, but for the Cadets (therefore, it's also the main YOG qualification event)...

World Junior Championships - Men's Individual Sabre Final Results: Gold: Konstantin Lokhanov (RUS) Silver: Sebastien Patrice (FRA) Bronze: Matteo Neri (ITA) & Raoul Bonah (GER) Semifinals: Lokhanov b. Bonah 15-1 Patrice b. Neri 15-14 Gold Medal Match: Lokhanov b. Patrice 15-13 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/228/results/rank

World Junior Championships - Women's Individual Sabre Final Results: Gold: Olga Nikitina (RUS) Silver: Natalia Botello (MEX) Bronze: Lucia Lucarini (ITA) & Liza Pusztai (HUN) Semifinals: Nikitina b. Lucarini 15-7 Botello b. Pusztai 15-13 Gold Medal Match: Nikitina b. Botello 15-12 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/227/results/rank

as I wrote in yesterday's post gone missing, it's not another Gold medal...but still, it's the 3rd podium finish in 3 days for Davide Di Veroli, the new sensation of the always very prolific Italian Fencing... and he's not even 17... by the way, with the team events completed, all the Epee competitions are over....with Italy taking 2 out of the possible 6 Gold medals and France, Hungary, Russia and Hong Kong (only not European Country) winning 1 Gold medal each... Today, the Sabre events have started with the Junior Women and Men's Individual competitions...

World Junior Championships - Men's Team Epee Final Results: Gold: Hungary Silver: France Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. Italy 45-41 Hungary b. Israel 45-34 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. Israel 45-30 Gold Medal Match: Hungary b. France 45-42 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/230/results/rank

World Junior Championships - Women's Team Epee Final Results: Gold: Italy Silver: Romania Bronze: Russia Semifinals: Italy b. Russia 45-25 Romania b. Ukraine 31-30 Bronze Medal Match: Russia b. Ukraine 45-27 Gold Medal Match: Italy b. Romania 45-31 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Yesterday's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/229/results/rank

where have yesterday's posts gone?

the Fencing Cadet World Championships (running this week in Verona, ITA) are the main qualification event for the 2018 YOG... and, according to the qualifying criteria (you can find the link in the dedicated thread), these should be the qualified fencers in today's 2 events: women's epee: Hsieh Kaylin Sin Yan (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Emily Vermeule (USA), Pan-American #1 Lim Tae Hee (KOR), Asia & Oceania #2 Tamila Muridova (KAZ), Asia & Oceania #3 Axelle Wasiak (BEL), Europe #1 Iana Bekmurzova (RUS), Europe #2 Kinga Dekany (HUN), Europe #3 Sara Maria Kowalczyk (ITA), Europe #4 Ariane Leonard (CAN), Pan-American #2 Yousra Zboudj (ALG), Africa men's epee: Davide Di Veroli (ITA), Europe #1 Asami Seiya (JPN), Asia & Oceania #1 Artur Tolasov (RUS), Europe #2 Alexander Biro (AUT), Europe #3 Isaac Herbst (USA), Pan-American #1 Khasan Boudunov (KGZ), Asia & Oceania #2 Paul Veltrup (GER), Europe #4 Li Zhiwei (CHN), Asia & Oceania #3 Mohamed El Sayed (EGY), Africa Seraphim Hsieh Jarov (CAN), Pan-American #2 a few more athletes will be determined once all 6 competitions are over (and others will follow after the tripartite commission decisions)...

Davide Di Veroli eponymous of the male Youth Epee season... Individually, he's twice (Cadet & Junior) European Champion + Silver among the Juniors and Cadet World Champion in just 3 weeks time...what a year for him... and we still have the YOG next Autumn... yes, because the Cadet Worlds are also the qualification event for the 2018 YOG... and, according to the qualifying criteria, these should be the qualified fencers in today's 2 events: women's epee: Hsieh Kaylin Sin Yan (HKG), Asia & Oceania #1 Emily Vermeule (USA), Pan-American #1 Lim Tae Hee (KOR), Asia & Oceania #2 Tamila Muridova (KAZ), Asia & Oceania #3 Axelle Wasiak (BEL), Europe #1 Iana Bekmurzova (RUS), Europe #2 Kinga Dekany (HUN), Europe #3 Sara Maria Kowalczyk (ITA), Europe #4 Ariane Leonard (CAN), Pan-American #2 Yousra Zboudj (ALG), Africa men's epee: Davide Di Veroli (ITA), Europe #1 Asami Seiya (JPN), Asia & Oceania #1 Artur Tolasov (RUS), Europe #2 Alexander Biro (AUT), Europe #3 Isaac Herbst (USA), Pan-American #1 Khasan Boudunov (KGZ), Asia & Oceania #2 Paul Veltrup (GER), Europe #4 Li Zhiwei (CHN), Asia & Oceania #3 Mohamed El Sayed (EGY), Africa Seraphim Hsieh Jarov (CAN), Pan-American #2 a few more athletes will be determined once all 6 competitions are over...

World Cadet Championships - Women's Individual Epee Final Results: Gold: Davide Di Veroli (ITA) Silver: Filippo Armaleo (ITA) Bronze: Simone Greco (ITA) & Asami Seiya (JPN) Semifinals: Armaleo b. Greco 13-6 Di Veroli b. Asami 15-7 Gold Medal Match: Di Veroli b. Armaleo 13-9 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/236/results/rank

World Cadet Championships - Women's Individual Epee Final Results: Gold: Hsieh Kaylin Sin Yan (HKG) Silver: Emily Vermeule (USA) Bronze: Lim Tae Hee (KOR) & Tamila Muridova (KAZ) Semifinals: Hsieh b. Muridova 15-10 Vermeule b. Lim 15-9 Gold Medal Match: Hsieh b. Vermeule 15-13 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/235/results/rank

just read yesterday's post with the qualification rules... African fencers have 2 granted places in each weapon (which will go to the 2 best placed athletes in the cadets individual events at this week's Worlds -tomorrow it's boys and girls epee's turn)...

Europei Under-22 di Boxe Finali uomini: +91 KG. Aziz Abbes MOUHIIDINE vince contro Marko MILUN (CRO) 4-1 Finali donne: -57 KG. Irama TESTA vince contro Cristina COSMA (ROU) 5-0 -64 KG. Rebecca NICOLI vince contro Sema CALISKAN (TUR) 4-1 -60 KG. Francesca MARTUSCIELLO perde contro Sara Amy BROADHURST (IRL) 0-5 Bilancio finale dell'Italia: 3 Ori, 1 Argento, 5 Bronzi

in the canditature file you can find a first draft schedule... but of course it's very different from what will be the final version, since all the new sports are not even included... however, if something is gonna be released, it will surely be posted on this page (the candidature files are also here): https://tokyo2020.org/en/games/plan/ p.s. I think that before the end of this year a newer draft version (a lot closer to the final one) will be released...

not a very good start for Italy... Di Veroli this time couldn't repeat himself after the double (Junior & Cadet) title won 3 weeks ago at the Europeans...he just came up short in the overtime against the French guy he beat in the previous event... but the really disappointing results came from the other guys and especially from the girls, who stopped their favourable streak after a few years of medals in this discipline...

World Junior Championships - Men's Individual Epee Final Results: Gold: Luidgi Midelton (FRA) Silver: Davide Di Veroli (ITA) Bronze: Lilian Nguefack (FRA) & Mate Tamas Koch (HUN) Semifinals: Midelton b. Nguefack 15-11 Di Veroli b. Koch 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Midelton b. Di Veroli 14-13 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/224/results/rank

World Junior Championships - Women's Individual Epee Final Results: Gold: Anastasia Soldatova (RUS) Silver: Julia Falinska (POL) Bronze: Emma Borsody (HUN) & Kinga Nagy (HUN) Semifinals: Falinska b. Borsody 15-14 Soldatova b. Nagy 15-13 Gold Medal Match: Soldatova b. Falinska 15-11 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/223/results/rank

I guess that if they don't get kicked out this time after all the troubles with former president from Taipei and the Uzbek mafia man who actually controlled all the AIBA operations, they won't get kicked out anymore for the rest of the Olympic history... I don't know what else can they do to make it worse than now...

yeah, but don't forget that most of the strongest European weightlifters weren't there... some of them because they come from suspended Countries and some others because they just didn't consider this tournament worth their presence... overall, the results obtained by most of the participants were very, very modest (even if they granted those athletes decent final placings at the end of the day)...

well, we can say the same for all of Tischchenko's matches in Rio...he was literally driven to the Gold without deserving to win any single match he did fight... the truth is that in the last 2 Olympics we've seen some of the most shameful episodes of the history of the Games in the Boxing tournaments... after Beijing 2008 (and Milan 2009 Worlds, the last reasonably fair event) AIBA just fell down in a hole of "adjusted fights" and corruption that was rarely seen before (as I wrote, only in Seoul 1988 I saw even worse decisions)...

great day for Hungary and very disappointing outcome for Italy (especially after the round of 16, when 4 of our guys made it through to the quarters, but they got no medal in the end)... overall, very poor finals...both of them being one-sided and without any pathos...

Men's Individual Sabre (Seoul, KOR) Final Results: Gold: Aron Szilagyi (HUN) Silver: Kim Jung Hwan (KOR) Bronze: Kamil Ibragimov (RUS) & Eli Dershwitz (USA) Semifinals: Szilagyi b. Ibragimov 15-8 Kim b. Dershwitz 15-13 Gold Medal Match: Szilagyi b. Kim 15-7 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/165/results/rank

Women's Individual Sabre (Seoul, KOR) Final Results: Gold: Olga Kharlan (UKR) Silver: Anna Marton (HUN) Bronze: Bianca Pascu (ROU) & Anna Limbach (GER) Semifinals: Kharlan b. Pascu 15-14 Marton b. Limbach 15-8 Gold Medal Match: Kharlan b. Marton 15-7 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2018/468/results/rank

of course the biggest cheating happened in that final bout against Cammarelle (ITA), but the whole tournament was gifted to him by the corrupted judges (a few of them were even caught with their hands on the marmelade...ops...with money they shouldn't have on their accounts, I mean)... in round 1, he met Erislandy Savon (CUB) and it was a robbery, then he had a controversial win against the Chinese Zhang...after that, he robbed Ivan Dychko (KAZ) in the semifinal bout and finally there was that Gold medal bout, which is in my opinion second only to Roy Jones Jr.'s scandal in Seoul 1988... p.s. all those matches are still available on youtube...everybody can watch them...

wow! 4 Italians (3 men and 1 woman) in the quarterfinals of the Sabre Grand Prix in Seoul (KOR) and not one of them who could go a step further... by the way, the semifinals are as follows: women: Olga Kharlan (UKR) vs Bianca Pascu (ROU) Anna Limbach (GER) vs Anna Marton (HUN) men: Kamil Ibragimov (RUS) vs Aron Szilagyi (HUN) Eli Dershwitz (USA) vs Kim Jung Hwan (KOR) semifinals and finals can be watched live in less than 20 minutes from now here: