Photos: Youth Olympic Games Day 2
Men’s Epee and Women’s Sabre are featured in the second day of fencing at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. The following photos were taken by Serge Timacheff of FencingPhotos.com. Full galleries will be available in one to two weeks after the conclusion of the event. Celina Merza (USA) took the silver medal in the Women’s [...]
Video: Kovalev’s Evolved Attack
Andrew (CyrusofChaos) has a new video up on the forums analyzing Russian sabre fencer Nikolai Kovalev. It has been a long time since I released a compilation video. The reason was I didnt really see anything unique enough to fill an entire video with. but when I saw Kovalev’s attack in Padova, I was amazed [...]
Video Highlights of the 2010 European Championships
The 2010 European Fencing Championships drew to a close today with the final team events. Italy was the big winner with gold medals in Men’s Team Foil, Men’s Foil, Women’s Foil, Women’s Team Foil, and Men’s Team Sabre. Individual event winners included: Andrea Baldini, Valentina Vezzali, Alexey Yakimenko, Imke Duplitzer, Svetlana Kormilitsyna, and Jean-Michel Lucenay. [...]
Russia wins Tianjin Team Sabre
Russia’s women’s sabre team defeated the United States in an exciting 45-44 semi-final match and went on to defeat the Ukraine 45-40. The US easily defeated France 45-37 for third place. The tournament results leave the FIE team rankings for the top 4 unchanged. Russia still remains #1, followed by the Ukraine, France, and the [...]
Mariel Zagunis wins in Tianjin
Mariel Zagunis (left) in action at the 2009 World Championship. Photo S.Timacheff/FencingPhotos.com Mariel Zagunis (USA, left) won another round in her rivalry with Ukrainian sabre sensation Olga Kharlan by taking the win against Kharlan 15-13 in the gold medal bout of the Tianjin Women’s Sabre Grand Prix event in Tianjin, China. Zagunis remains firmly entrenched [...]
Kharlan defeats Velikaia in Moscow Grand Prix
Olga Kharlan faces off against Sophia Velikaia in the finals of the 2009 Moscow Women’s Sabre Grand Prix.
Jacobson Positioned for Rematch, Gold
Sada Jacobson and Rebecca Ward are seeded #1 and #2 entering the Women’s Sabre competition on Saturday, August 9th. Fellow US teammate Mariel Zagunis is seeded 6th. Jacobson’s draw could lead to a rematch of her 2004 semi final bout with hometown favorite Xue Tan (CHN). Tan won the silver medal in 2004, losing to [...]
Women’s Team Foil World Championships Results
The Polish Women’s Foil team struck gold with a victory over Russia in the 2003 Fencing World Championships being held in Havana, Cuba. Poland defeated Russia 45-36 in the Team Women’s Foil event. Polish foilist Sylwia Gruchala earned the silver medal in the individual event earlier in the week.
Smart makes Top-8 in NYC
New York sabre fencer Keeth Smart continues a strong season by placing 7th at the NYC World Cup. World points leader Stanislaw Pozdniakov placed 5th.
2003 Sofia Men’s Sabre Grand Prix
Results from the Sofia GP Men’s Sabre World Cup – March 30, 2003
