On the final day of the individual events of the 2009 Fencing World Championships, Russia and Germany added gold medals as the US fencers make an early exit.
Russia earned another world championship title as Lubov Shutova bested Canada's Sherraine Schalm 9-8 in overtime in the women's epee event. Germany added a gold medal in men's sabre to go with their men's foil bronze as Nicolas Limbach bested Romania's Rares Dumitrescu 15-11.
Russia notches up two upset wins in the finals to take how gold in the Women's Foil and Men's Epee events at today's World Championships events.
In women's foil, Italian Valentina Vezzali loses in the final 8 and Russia's Aida Shanaeva defeats Korea's Jeon Hee Sook for the world championship title. Matteo Tagliariol is unable to hold onto a late lead and loses to Anton Avdeev (RUS) in men's epee.
Mariel Zagunis started the day with a close match in the round of 64 against Hye Lim Kim (KOR) but found her speed and rolled through her next matches en route to winning the 2009 World Championship in Women's Sabre. Along the way, Zagunis faced off against teammate Daria Schneider and Ukraine's Olena Khomrova.
Andrea Baldini (ITA) stormed back on the world cup scene after missing out on the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a dominating victory of China's Joon Zhu at the 2009 World Championships. US fencer Kurt Getz knocked off #4 Richard Cruse en route to a 7th place finish.
Gerek Meinhardt (pictured, right) made the top 16, finishing 14th. Alexander Massialas (44th) and Miles Chamley-Watson (46th) fell in the first round.
The new foil mask featuring a portion of the bib as valid target area will not be used next season for domestic US Fencing events.
The motion to include the foil bib as target and match the current international fencing ruling from the FIE would have had the new foil mask a requirement for national events as early as October and put off the requirement for local events for a year.
The motion was withdrawn without a vote or debate on the matter. No additional discussion as to when the USFA might adopt this rule change was held.
President Barack Obama attacked 2008 Olympian Tim Morehouse with a lightsaber on the South Lawn today during an event to drum up support of the Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics.
2008 Olympic silver medalist Tim Morehouse and 2009 US Women's Sabre team member Daria Schneider conducted a demonstration bout on the South Lawn in which President Obama served as the referee.
On the final day of the individual events of the 2009 Fencing World Championships, Russia and Germany added gold medals as the US fencers make an early exit. v Khomrova (UKR)-prelim-Antalya 2009-0989.JPG)
Mariel Zagunis started the day with a close match in the round of 64 against Hye Lim Kim (KOR) but found her speed and rolled through her next matches en route to winning the 2009 World Championship in Women's Sabre. Along the way, Zagunis faced off against teammate Daria Schneider and Ukraine's Olena Khomrova.  v Meinhardt (USA)-prelim-Antalya 2009-1055.JPG)
Andrea Baldini (ITA) stormed back on the world cup scene after missing out on the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a dominating victory of China's Joon Zhu at the 2009 World Championships. US fencer Kurt Getz knocked off #4 Richard Cruse en route to a 7th place finish.
The new foil mask featuring a portion of the bib as valid target area will not be used next season for domestic US Fencing events.
President Barack Obama attacked 2008 Olympian Tim Morehouse with a lightsaber on the South Lawn today during an event to drum up support of the Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics. 
