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Written by Craig Harkins
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
BASEL, SWITZERLAND: US Junior Epeeist Michael Raynis upset a world ranked Italian fencer en route to a bronze medal finish. On Saturday, Feb. 6th, at the Challenge Maître Roger Nigon Junior Men's Epee World Cup in Basel, Switzerland, Michael Raynis beat the number four ranked fencer in the world, Lorenzo Bruttini from Italy 15 -14, to advance into the round of 32.
After this important victory, he fenced Polish fencer, Seweryn Brzozowski to make it into the 16, Barna Bernat from Hungary into the 8, Jonathan May from Great Britain into the semi finals, finally losing to Levente Tamas Gyorgyi from Hungary who lost the gold medal to Szablcs Bojte from Hungary. Michael is coached by Gago Demirchian, former USFA head coach men's epee, at the Los Angeles International Fencing Center, Los Angeles, California. Next September, as an incoming freshman, he will be fencing for Harvard. |
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Written by Craig Harkins
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
Following the receipt of lab results from the FIE Visor foil mask which was pierced at Odense, the FIE issued an ugent letter stating:
Therefore, the Executive Committee has decided to suspend and
forbid, until further notice, the use of the transparent visor mask
both in foil and epee, at all FIE official competitions.
It was found that the failed mask did not adhere to all of the manufacturing recommendations of the FIE. Full text of the letter can be found on the FIE site. |
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Written by Craig Harkins
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
Budapest, Hungary - James Williams was the highlight of the US team today, fencing his way to the round of 16 before falling 15-9 to Gelu Florin Zalomir (ROU). Tim Morehouse fell in the 32 to Hungarian Nikolasz Iliasz 15-14. 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Zhong Man knocked out Ben Igoe (USA) 15-14 in the round of 64. Earlier in the day Zalomir also knocked out the final US participant Mihail Etropolski. |
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
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Mariel Zagunis kicked off her 2010 fencing season with a world cup victory at the England Cup in London. Zagunis, the reigning world champion, defeated Poland's Aleksandra Socha 15-7. Dagmara Wozniak (USA) came the closest to Zagunis, losing 15-11 in the round of 8. |
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
Katherine Holmes went 6-0 in pools and fenced through 4 rounds of elimination matches, earning a bronze finish at the Cadet Circuit in Göteborg, Sweden. In the semifinal round Holmes met up with #2 seed Florina Plachta (GER) where she fell 9-14. Plachta went on to win the event with a 15-8 victory over surprise finalist Pauline Brunner (SUI). |
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
Gerek Meinhardt (left) upset former world champion #3 seed Peter Joppich 15-14 en route to a top-8 finish at the Challenge International de Paris. Meinhardt lost in the quarterfinal round to Alexey Khovansky (RUS) 15-14.
China's Lei Sheng defeated Korea's Young Ho Kwon 15-14 to take the men's foil title. 3 of the top 8 finishes at the Paris Grand Prix event were from China, perhaps signalling a shift in balance of power in the top tier of men's foil. |
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