Ibtihaj Muhammad’s Olympic Opportunity
Tim Morehouse has posted his own PR analysis of what an Olympic bid could bring Ibti Muhammad. The women’s sabre fencer is already garnering press during the Olympic qualification process: Even months out of the Olympics now, Ibti has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal in an article Title “Fencer With Headscarf Is a [...]
Olga Kharlan wins Euros, Tops Ranking
Olga Kharlan (UKR) defeated Aleksandra Socha (POL) 15-10 to take the 2011 European Championship in Women’s Sabre. In doing so, she also kept ahead of rival Mariel Zagunis (USA) in the Adjusted Olympic Rankings* that will be used for Olympic Qualification in women’s sabre. Zagunis still tops the FIE World Rankings and will retain the [...]
USA Notches 2 Golds at Pan Am Championships
Soren Thompson and Mariel Zagunis won the first two gold medals of the 2011 Pan American Zonal Championships by winning the Men’s Epee and Women’s Sabre events. Seth Kelsey and Daria Schneider added bronze medals wins with both going out to their teammates in the semi-final bouts. Men’s Epee Soren Thompson used a smart game [...]
New York World Cup: Teams Recap
This post comes from Andrew Fischl who was on hand taking video of the finals and who publishes compilation videos under the name CyrusofChaos. Men’s Recap and Analysis: The last day of a world cup is the day of the team event and unfortunately today was a very disappointing day for the American team. The [...]
Zagunis 2nd in New York; Velikaia takes Gold
Sophia Velikaia (RUS) won her second world cup event of the season defeating Mariel Zagunis (USA) in the finals of the NYC World Cup. Velikaia’s last world cup victory, in Moscow, was also over Zagunis. This was a dominating victory for Velikaia who showed the Moscow result was not a fluke by defeating Zagunis 15-6 [...]
World Cup season kicks into high gear
The fencing World Cup season kicks into high gear this weekend as the world cups now count for 2012 Olympic qualification. Foil fencing for both men and women will commence in Shanghai. Traditionally Japan hosts a men’s foil grand prix event, but the event was moved to Shanghai following the earthquake and tsunami that hit [...]
Watch Mariel Zagunis win the 2010 World Championship
Mariel Zagunis (USA) defeated the Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan to win the 2010 World Championship in Women’s Sabre. The FIE (finally) has uploaded videos of the world championship finals from Paris, France so US fencers who didn’t make the trek now get the chance to watch. Olga and Mariel would fence again a few weeks later [...]
Russia Wins Men’s and Women’s Sabre Team Titles
Russia earned double-gold at the 2010 Fencing World Championships with victories in over Italy (45-41) in Men’s Team Sabre and over the Ukraine (45-33) in Women’s Team Sabre. The matches were held Tuesday at the Grand Palais in Paris, France.
World Championships Photos: Sabre
Serge Timacheff from FencingPhotos.com is on site at the Grand Palais taking photos at the 2010 World Championships.
Here is a gallery of photos from the Men’s and Women’s Sabre Finals:
Mariel Zagunis wins World Championship
Mariel Zagunis (USA – Beaverton, OR) used a 4 point run to take an 8-4 lead at the break and maintained the 4 touch margin to defeat world #2 Olga Kharlan (UKR) 15-11 in the gold medal match. Zagunis held onto her #1 seed to repeat as Women’s Sabre World Champion. In the men’s sabre [...]
