Prescod, Lu medal in Bochum Junior World Cup Event

Written by Craig Harkins

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Nzingha Prescod

Nzingha Prescod took 2nd place at the Junior Women's Foil world cup event in Buchum, Germany. She fell 15-5 to Russia's Anastasia Ivanova. Margaret Lu (USA) took 3rd, losing to Prescod 15-13 in the semi-finals.
Prescod won all of her pool bouts and entered into the direct elimination portion of the competition with a +21 indicated, setting her up in a good position to advance with the 2nd seed.

Lu was the #6 seed and defeated three fencers from Poland in succession before running into Germany's Inke Nehl. She won that bout 15-9 and then was matched up with Prescod.

Madison Zeiss (USA) was able to generate upsets in her matches, moving from the 40th seed into the top 8 where she fell to #1 Ysora Thibus (FRA) 15-11. Thibus then lost to Ivanova 15-10. Zeiss finished 8th.

Other US fencers:
10th Hyun-Kyung Yuh
19th Ambika Singh
22nd Kylei McGill
24th Eve Levin
25th Mona Shaito
40th Sarah Parmacek
44th Darsie Malynn
61st Epiphany Georges
69th Alyssa Lomuscio

Final Results:

1	RUS RUS	IVANOVA Anastasia
2	USA USA	PRESCOD Nzingha
3	FRA FRA	THIBUS Ysora
3	USA USA	LU Margaret
5	RUS RUS	DERIGLAZOVA Inna
6	GER GER	NEHL Inke
7	NED NED	KULHANEK Iman
8	USA USA	ZEISS Madison
9	FRA FRA	LUMINET Clarisse
10	USA USA	YUH Hyun-Kyung
11	POL POL	PALISZEWSKA Monika
12	FRA FRA	BLAZE Anita
13	GER GER	STAUCH Svenja
14	POL POL	RYGIELSKA Emilia
15	NED NED	NOE Else
16	GER GER	BARTKOWSKI Nicole
17	GER GER	SEETHALER Lea
18	POL POL	LYCZBINSKA Marta
19	USA USA	SINGH Ambika
20	RUS RUS	LAVRENOVA Veronika
21	RUS RUS	KAZHIKINA Ekaterina
22	USA USA	MCGILL Kylei
23	GER GER	WEIS Karen
24	USA USA	LEVIN Eve
25	USA USA	SHAITO Mona
26	FRA FRA	MOLINARO Celine
27	GER GER	SAUER Anne
28	GRE GRE	BOURDAKOU Anna
29	POL POL	GOLEBIOWSKA Natalia
30	POL POL	LYCZBINSKA Hanna
31	POL POL	TOBOLA Dagmara
32	FRA FRA	SOUQUET BRESSAND Camille
33	FRA FRA	JUBENOT Chloe
34	NED NED	MONDT Milja
35	GER GER	ROMANUS Stephanie
36	POL POL	BRES Aleksandra
37	GER GER	WEGENER Marike
38	GER GER	FENGER Hannah
39	FRA FRA	HERVE DE FERRON Alice
40	USA USA	PARMACEK Sarah
41	AUT AUT	WEISS Kim
42	POL POL	KUROWSKA Dominika
43	POL POL	SOBCZAK Zuzanna
44	USA USA	MALYNN Darsie
45	GER GER	BEHR Kristin
46	RUS RUS	KOKOULINA Maya
47	NED NED	TULEN Lola
48	FRA FRA	GRENOT Adeline
49	FRA FRA	MANA Marie
50	ISR ISR	ZAMLIN Bella
51	GER GER	RÖMER Christiane
52	GER GER	HAMPEL Eva
53	GER GER	KRAUSE (I) Charlotte
54	GRE GRE	MPAROTSINI Ioli
55	FRA FRA	ROUGANNE Mailys
56	CZE CZE	NOVENKOVA Veronika
57	GER GER	SCHMITZ Franziska
58	FRA FRA	BROT Coralie
59	POL POL	SIEDLIK Ewa
eliminated in round 1
60	GER GER	KNAPP Anne-Kerstin
61	USA USA	GEORGES Ephiphany
62	POL POL	OLBROMSKA Iwona
63	FIN FIN	SUPPONEN Outi
64	FRA FRA	MILENKOVIC Manon
65	POL POL	HAUSMAN Marta
66	ITA ITA	MONTALTO MONELLA Luisa
67	GER GER	KNAUER Tamina
68	GER GER	WÜNSCHE Paulina
69	USA USA	LOMUSCIO Alyssa
70	GER GER	BIRTHELMER Martina
71	GER GER	GOLLAN Natasha
72	NED NED	RAMDHAN Gabriella
73	GER GER	HÜBNER Vanessa
74	ITA ITA	ASCOLI MARCHETTI Silvia
75	ITA ITA	DI MARTINO Giulia