We're Number 1! We're Number 1!

[edew]

Ok, Keeth is Number 1.

After taking silver at Athens (this guy is now officially "for real"), Keeth is now #1 in the world standings. Pozdniakov won, but he lost some points as his last year's Athens points expired while Keeth earns new one.

Well, lookee here. Six world cups, five top-8, one ninth place, one gold, two silvers, one bronze.

That's some pretty gnarly pickin's.

[DJ Apostrophe]

Any one happen to know the score between Keeth & Poz' ... just a curiosity...
-w

[Craig]

1) RUS POZDNIAKOV Stanisla 32
2) USA SMART Keeth T 26
3) RUS CHARIKOV Sergej 20
3) UKR LUKACHENKO Volodimi 20
5) ROM COVALIU Mihai 14
6) ITA TARANTINO Luigi 14
7) ITA MONTANO Aldo 14
8) RUS DIATCHENKO Alexei 14
9) GER BAUER Dennis 8
10) FRA PILLET Julien 8
11) FRA TOUYA Damien 8
12) GER HERM Michael 8
13) FRA GAZIN Fabrice 8
14) GER KRAUS Christian 8
15) GER STEHR Harald 8
16) ROM SANDU Constantin 8
17) THA KOTHNY Wiradech 4
18) FRA SANSON Boris 4
19) ROM LUPEICA Alin 4
20) FRA GOURDAIN Matthieu 4
21) ITA GUIDI Giacomo 4
22) FRA ANSTETT Vincent 4
23) GER GRIMM Philipp 4
24) ITA PASTORE Giampiero 4
24) GER KINDT Martin 4
26) ROM PORUMB Ciprian 4
27) FRA LOPEZ Nicolas 4
28) ROM GAUREANU Dan 4
29) USA MOREHOUSE Timothy F 4
30) GER BAUER Steven 4
31) RUS SAZONOV Viatcheslav 4
32) POL SZNAJDER Rafal 4
33) FRA TOUYA Gael 2
34) ESP CASARES Ignacio 2
35) GBR WILLIAMS James 2
36) FRA MAROUF Nourdin 2
37) ITA CAPUTO Marcello 2
38) RUS FROSSINE Alexei 2
39) GER LEHMANN Eero 2
40) FRA MORENO Gregoire 2
41) GER SCHULEMANN Sven 2
42) ROM LUPU Cristian 2
43) USA MOMTSELIDZE Mike 2
44) FRA CHARRETTE Thomas 2
45) USA HAGAMEN Timothy H 2
46) GER ZIMMERMANN Mark 2
46) ITA PIGNOTTI Luca 2
48) RUS AIBOUSHEV Dmitri 2
49) FRA GALVEZ Guillaume 2
50) USA LEE Ivan J. 2
50) ROM DINA Lucian 2
52) GER BOGHICEV Franz 2
53) ITA CAVALIERE Alessandr 2
54) ITA SIROVICH Giovanni 2
55) USA SPENCER-EL Akhnaten 2
56) USA CLEMENT Luther C 2
57) ROM STROE Vasile 2
58) RUS BYKOV Pavel 2
59) FRA SEMMARTIN Jean Bapt 2
60) ITA AQUILI Andrea 2
61) EGY SAMIR Mahmoud 2
62) ITA TRICARICO Marco 2
63) HUN DECSI Tamas 2
64) ROM ZALOMIR Florin 2

[veeco]

Originally posted by DJ Apostrophe
Any one happen to know the score between Keeth & Poz' ... just a curiosity...
-w

15-12 says Escrime-Info (http://www.escrime-info.com)

[edew]

15-12 means that Smart actually won, because, as you know, there's always about 4 points given based on reputation and nationality. :-)

Also, the escrime-info.com commentaries about the Athens WC are all about Smart being up there on the podium and that Smart is now #1 in the world.

And I like the "aqua" interface from the escrime-info website.

[fencer-person]

The bout was refereed fairly. Keeth lost, but give him a year or two and he will be beating the Russians also.

[shamshir]

"The Russians" are not a major concern to Keeth, at least not as a group. I'd say the only real competition to Keeth would be:

Pozdniakov
Covaliu
Tarantino
Nemcsik
and maybe Pillet, Bauer

I'm not including Medina because even though he's my favourite fencer (only top 20 fencer who's short) he's sorta scammed his way into the top 5 by winning the Tabriz G.P.

If Keeth actually went to Tabriz next year he'd have 48 points in the bag, easy. Of course, I know Americans don't like the prospect of travelling to Iran, but who knows, maybe next year the middle east will be all calm.

edit: I forgot to say "congratulations, Keeth" but seeing as the probability of Keeth actually reading this forum is pretty much nil, I should change that to "congratulations, Americans."

I knew you'd be the first to get someone up there in MS. I just don't think it's possible for Canada to do so with the current state of non-winter amateur sports in this country.

[damianip]

Originally posted by shamshir


SNIP!!!

edit: I forgot to say "congratulations, Keeth" but seeing as the probability of Keeth actually reading this forum is pretty much nil, I should change that to "congratulations, Americans."

I knew you'd be the first to get someone up there in MS. I just don't think it's possible for Canada to do so with the current state of non-winter amateur sports in this country.

But, then again, you've got Sherraine MacKay in WE moving up into the top 3 in the WC standings.

Paolo

[shamshir]

Originally posted by damianip
But, then again, you've got Sherraine MacKay in WE moving up into the top 3 in the WC standings.

Paolo

Yup, but the wording of my post was limited to MS (and MF/WF). I think in all other weapons there is potential. Epee is traditionally easier to break into for "underdog nations", at least it has been historically. But the US has recently made great strides in the right-of-way weapons which I think is more of an achievement than having some great results in Men's Epee or some incredible results in Women's Epee.

Cliff Bayer used to be cleaning up internationally, how is he doing these days? US WS is on its way to the top, too, I believe. WF used to be fantastic, but I'm not sure how it is now... is the Rochester Club still going strong?

As for Sherraine, yeah, we're very proud of her. She used to throw pretty good parties, too. I think she lives and trains in Paris nowadays, though.