All 4 Men’s Sabre Fencers Advance; 2 in Women’s Epee to Compete on Monday in the 2009 Fencing World Championships

Lindsay Campbell - (c) 2009 Serge Timacheff
Lindsay Campbell in action in today’s elimination match. Photo (c) Serge Timacheff/FencingPhotos.com

The men’s sabre team rode a strong performance in the preliminary pools to advance to Monday’ finals. The women’s epee squad faced more challanges as two fell in the early qualifying rounds.

{sidebar id=1} Tim Morehouse and Ben Igoe each received byes into the DE table of 64 based on their high world rankings. Daryl Homer and James Williams earned enough victories in their preliminary pool bouts to qualify directly to the top-64 to be fenced on Monday.

The women’s epee squad faced a more substantial challenge. Lacking the high rankings of the sabre squad, all four women’s epeeists had to fence in the preliminary pools. Two of them won their way to Monday’s elimination table.

Lindsay Campbell and Kelley Hurley each finished pools 4-2. Courtney Hurley came in with a 3-3 mark and Susannah Scanlan manged only a 1-5 record in the pools round. Kelley Hurley, a 2008 Olympian, lost her direct elimation match to Korea’s OH Yun Hee 15-13. She finished the tournament with a a final placement of 66th and Susannah Scanlan 107th.

World #3 Anna Sivkova (RUS) did not compete in the championships. Morehouse, Williams, and Kelley Hurley were all members of the 2008 Olympic team.

Lindsay Campbell defeated Oxana Svatkovskaya 15-6 and Courtney Hurley bested Great Britain’s Elisa Albini 15-10 to advance into Monday’s elimination table of 64.

The format for the 2009 World Championships is slightly different than years past. Here’s the breakdown:

  • Top 16 fencers in the FIE world rankings automatically qualify for the DE of 64.
  • The top 16 fencers out of pools qualify directly to the final day’s DE of 64
  • The bottom 20% of fencers out of pools are eliminated
  • The remaining fencers compete in a preliminary DE table until 32 remain to fill out the DE table of 64
  • The final day of competition is run as a single elimination DE table.

UniversalSports.com will broadcast Monday’s finals live — the last day of the individual events — beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.

The competition continues on Saturday with the finals of women’s sabre and men’s foil. Discussion continues in the forums.

{mospagebreak title=Men’s Sabre DE Table}

2009 Fencing World Championships: Men’s Sabre Top 64

1 LIMBACH Nicolas GER
9:00 bleue
64 HUTCHISON Neil GBR
10:00 bleue
33 DOLNICEANU Tiberiu ROU
9:15 bleue
32 LAM Hin Chung HKG
11:00 bleue
17 OCCHIUZZI Diego ITA
9:30 bleue
48 LONTAY Balazs HUN
10:15 bleue
49 SHIMAMURA Tomohiro JPN
9:45 bleue
16 LAPKES Dmitri BLR
9 ZHONG Man CHN
9:00 rouge
56 JIANG Ke Lu CHN
10:30 bleue
41 LIKHACHEUSKI Aliaksei BLR
9:15 rouge
24 SANSON Boris FRA
11:15 bleue
25 OH Eun Seok KOR
9:30 rouge
40 GORSKI Mateusz POL
10:45 bleue
57 GIONOV Dobrin BUL
9:45 rouge
8 PASTORE Giampiero ITA
5 TARANTINO Luigi ITA
9:00 verte
60 BEAUDRY Philippe CAN
10:00 rouge
37 WILLIAMS James USA
9:15 verte
28 KOVALEV Nikolay RUS
11:00 rouge
21 HANCEANU Cosmin ROU
9:30 verte
44 BOYKO Dmytro UKR
10:15 rouge
53 LIU Xiao CHN
9:45 verte
12 MOREHOUSE Timothy USA
13 NEMCSIK Zsolt HUN
9:00 jaune
52 SHTURBABIN Oleg UKR
10:30 rouge
45 MAYER Nicolas CAN
9:15 jaune
20 SKRODZKI Adam POL
11:15 rouge
29 MORENO Pablo ESP
9:30 jaune
36 BAZADZE Beka GEO
10:45 rouge
61 LUKASHENKO Vladimir UKR
9:45 jaune
4 PILLET Julien FRA
3 MONTANO Aldo ITA
9:00 piste 1
62 PARK In KOR
10:00 verte
35 RESHETNIKOV Veniamin RUS
9:15 piste 1
30 CERANOWICZ Jakub POL
11:00 verte
19 HUEBNER Bjoern GER
9:30 piste 1
46 GU Bon Gil KOR
10:15 verte
51 COUTURIER Vincent CAN
9:45 piste 1
14 SZILAGYI Aron HUN
11 MARTI Jaime ESP
9:00 piste 2
54 CASARES Fernando ESP
10:30 verte
43 KLEBES Johannes GER
9:15 piste 2
22 JANSEN Hernan VEN
11:15 verte
27 POLOSSIFAKIS Joseph CAN
9:30 piste 2
38 ANSTETT Vincent FRA
10:45 verte
59 KEITA Mamoudou SEN
9:45 piste 2
6 DUMITRESCU Rares ROU
7 DECSI Tamas HUN
9:00 piste 3
58 ABEDINI SHORMASTI Mojtara IRI
10:00 jaune
39 MOKRETSOV Ilia RUS
9:15 piste 3
26 PRYIEMKA Valery BLR
11:00 jaune
23 HOMER Daryl USA
9:30 piste 3
42 TORCHUK Oleksandr UKR
10:15 jaune
55 TURLYBEKOV Zhanserik KAZ
9:45 piste 3
10 PINA Jorge ESP
15 IGOE Benjamin USA
9:00 piste 4
50 KIM Jung Hwan KOR
10:30 jaune
47 BUIKEVICH Aliaksandr BLR
9:15 piste 4
18 ZALOMIR Gelu Florin ROU
11:15 jaune
31 BEISHEIM Benedikt GER
9:30 piste 4
34 YAMAMOTO Koji JPN
10:45 jaune
63 O’CONNELL Alexander GBR
9:45 piste 4
2 LOPEZ Nicolas FRA

{mospagebreak title=Women’s Epee DE Table}

2009 Fencing World Championships – Women’s Epee Top 64

1 HEIDEMANN Britta GER
12:30 bleue
64 KOUBANI Vassiliki GRE
13:50 bleue
33 ALEXANDRU Simona ROU
12:50 bleue
32 PANUSCHKA Claudia AUT
15:10 bleue
17 LUO Xiaojuan CHN
13:10 bleue
48 GEROUDET Tiffany SUI
14:10 bleue
49 CASCIOLI Cristiana ITA
13:30 bleue
16 MARKOVIC Marijana GER
9 MAROIU Anca ROU
12:30 rouge
56 NELIP Ewa POL
14:30 bleue
41 POCHKALOVA Anfisa UKR
12:50 rouge
24 MACESEANU Iuliana ROU
15:30 bleue
25 MILLS Noam ISR
13:10 rouge
40 GALANTINE Vanessa FRA
14:50 bleue
57 HURLEY Courtney USA
13:30 rouge
8 MOELLHAUSEN Nathalie ITA
5 SHUTOVA Lubov RUS
12:30 verte
60 ZVEREVA Yana RUS
13:50 rouge
37 KIM Bo-Mi KOR
12:50 verte
28 SHIMOOKAWA Ayaka JPN
15:10 rouge
21 CAO Yulian CHN
13:10 verte
44 WESTMAN Nina SWE
14:10 rouge
53 SWITZER Ainsley CAN
13:30 verte
12 LAMON Sophie SUI
13 SAMUELSSON Emma SWE
12:30 jaune
52 NAEF Simone SUI
14:30 rouge
45 BARVESTAD Kinka SWE
12:50 jaune
20 NAKANO Nozomi JPN
15:30 rouge
29 SUN Yujie CHN
13:10 jaune
36 EMBRICH Irina EST
14:50 rouge
61 MARTINEZ Maria VEN
13:30 jaune
4 FLESSEL-COLOVIC Laura FRA
3 SZASZ Emese HUN
12:30 piste 1
62 BELJAJEVA Julia EST
13:50 verte
35 PIEKARSKA Magdalena POL
12:50 piste 1
30 ORTIZ FUENTE Zuleidis CUB
15:10 verte
19 XU Anqi CHN
13:10 piste 1
46 LAWRENCE Corinna GBR
14:10 verte
51 JUNG Hyo-Jung KOR
13:30 piste 1
14 SOZANSKA Monika GER
11 TOL Sonja NED
12:30 piste 2
54 PARKINSON Amber AUS
14:30 verte
43 NISIMA Maureen FRA
12:50 piste 2
22 IZSO Katalin HUN
15:30 verte
27 KRYVYTSKA Olena UKR
13:10 piste 2
38 SHEMYAKINA Yana UKR
14:50 verte
59 RUBLEVSKA Jelena LAT
13:30 piste 2
6 DUPLITZER Imke GER
7 LOGOUNOVA Tatiana RUS
12:30 piste 3
58 DOUBOVA Daniela CZE
13:50 jaune
39 CAMPBELL Lindsay USA
12:50 piste 3
26 DEL CARRETTO Bianca ITA
15:10 jaune
23 DMOWSKA-ANDRZEJUK Danuta POL
13:10 piste 3
42 PARK Se Ra KOR
14:10 jaune
55 NARITA Hiroko JPN
13:30 piste 3
10 KIRALY PICOT Hajnalka FRA
15 SCHALM Sherraine CAN
12:30 piste 4
50 QUONDAMCARLO Francesca ITA
14:30 jaune
47 PARTALA Olga UKR
12:50 piste 4
18 BEREZA Malgorzata POL
15:30 jaune
31 TOTH Hajnalka HUN
13:10 piste 4
34 KOCHNEVA Olga RUS
14:50 jaune
63 OH Yun Hee KOR
13:30 piste 4
2 BRANZA Ana ROU

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