Valentina Vezzali Photo:FencingPhotos.com2010 Youth Olympic GamesFrom the FIE: The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore will count on the prestigious appearance of the most honored fencer in history. Valentina Vezzali, foilist, (ITA) has enthusiastically confirmed that she will attend these first YOG as fencing’s Ambassador. She will take part in different activities of the Culture and Education Program arranged by the YOG’s Organizing Committee.

Her achievements and records are very vast and it will certainly be difficult to equal (3 times Olympic (Sydney, Athens, Beijing) winner & 5 times world championships winner 5 times European Champion 2 times Junior Fencing World Champion (1993, 1994) and 3 times Cadet World Champion (1989, 1990, 1991)).

The Youth Olympic Games will be webcast from their webcasting site: http://www.youtholympicgames.org/

Qualified fencers for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games Fencing Competition:

Fencers aged 15-17 will compete in boys and girl’s epee, foil and saber at the first Youth Olympic Games.  Fencing events will be held Aug. 15-18.  There will be individual events and a mixed-gender team competition.

The United States qualified 5 fencers to the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

Women’s Epee Men’s Epee
SANTUCCIO AlbertaITABODOCZI NikolausGER
LEE Hye WonKORSVICHKAR RomanUKR
TATARAN AmaliaROUKRUK TomaszPOL
LIN ShengCHNCIOVICA LucianROU
HOLMES KatharineUSAZHAKUPOV KirillKAZ
BAKHAREVA YuliaRUSNA ByeonghunKOR
RADFORD AmyGBRLYSSOV AlexandreCAN
DI TELLA IsabelARGMELARAGNO GuilhermeBRA
MATSHAYA WandaRSASALEH SalehEGY
SWATOWSKA Martyna (9e)POLNOVOTNY Ondrej (8e)CZE
BRUNNER Pauline (12e)SUIGODOY JulianCRC
JAQMAN DamyanPLEFICHERA Marco (9e)ITA
RAHARDJA Rania H.SINLIM Wei HaoSIN

Foil Events:

Women’s FoilMen’s Foil
MANCINI CamillaITAMASSIALAS AlexanderUSA
LUPKOVICS DoraHUNLUPERI EdoardoITA
WANG LianlianCHNLICHAGIN KirillRUS
ALEXEEVA ViktoriaRUSCHOUPENITCH AlexanderCZE
SHAITO MonaUSATSORONIS AlexanderDEN
CELLEROVA MichalaSVKLEE Kwang HyunKOR
CHOI DukhaKORCHOI Nicholas EdwardHKG
GOLDIE AlannaCANMAHMOUD MostafaEGY
DAW MenattallaEGYPRADES ROSABAL Redys H.CUB
CARBALLO IvaniaESAGYORGYI Antal (8e)HUN
ABOU JAOUDE RitaLIBBABAOGLU Tevfik B. (11e)TUR
NDAO Mame AwaSENTOFALIDES Alex (13e)GBR
WONG Liane Ye YingSINONG Justin Xian ShiSIN

Sabre Events:

Women’s SabreMen’s Sabre
KOMASHUK AlinaUKRHUEBERS RichardGER
SEO Ji YeonKORAFFEDE LeonardoITA
EGORIAN YanaRUSOKUNEV ArturRUS
WATOR AngelikaPOLAKULA MikhailBLR
MUSCH AnjaGERSPEAR WillUSA
WAN YiniCHNWANG JacksonHKG
MERZA CelinaUSASONG JonghunKOR
AHMED MennatallaEGYBREAULT-MALLETTE MiguelCAN
CARRENO MariaVENELSISSY ZiadEGY
MAKWANYA N. GraciaCODSIRBU Dragos (6e)ROU
HILWIYAH EmaIRQSZATMARI Andras (7e)HUN
CIARDULLO VittoriaITAISSAKA KONDO DjibrillaNIG
BOUDAD Kenza (11e)FRAZATKO Arthur (10e)FRA

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