France carried away another gold today from the Women’s Epee team competition at the 2007 World Fencing Championships in St. Petersburg, Russia.

France won the Women’s Epee team competition, crushing the home town Russian team 45-37 in the gold medal bout.  Germany earned bronze with a 42-40 win over Estonia.

The U.S. women’s epee team of Lacey Burt (22, Beaverton, Ore.), Courtney
Hurley (17, San Antonio, Texas), Kelley Hurley (19, San Antonio, Texas) and
Maya Lawrence (27, Teaneck, N.J.) earned ninth place.

The U.S. women defeated South Africa 45-17 in their first match up, in the
round of 32. They lost their next match 45-26 to Hungary.

In placement rounds, the U.S. women earned great experience by defeated their remaining opponents: Korea 45-32, Switzerland 45-34, and Romania by the heart-stopping score of 28-27.

Top 8 Matchups – 2007 Women’s Team Epee World Championship

 CHINE  CHN 
       RUSSIE 
 RUSSIE  RUS    30/19
        RUSSIE 
 ALLEMAGNE  GER        30/29
       ALLEMAGNE     
 HONGRIE  HUN    24/23    
         FRANCE 
 ESTONIE  EST         45/37
       ESTONIE     
 ITALIE  ITA    28/27    
        FRANCE 
 POLOGNE  POL        28/24
       FRANCE 
 FRANCE  FRA    45/29

 Bronze Medal Match

 ALLEMAGNE  GER 
       ALLEMAGNE 
 ESTONIE  EST    42/40

Final Placement

 Place Country 
 1  FRANCE  FRA 
 2  RUSSIA RUS 
 3  GERMANY GER 
 4  ESTONIA EST 
 5  HUNGARY HUN 
 6  ITALY ITA 
 7  CHINA  CHN 
 8  POLAND  POL 
 9  U.S.A.  USA 
 10  ROMANIA  ROU 
 11  CANADA  CAN 
 12  SWITZERLAND SUI 
 13  KOREA KOR 
 14  JAPAN  JPN 
 15  UKRAINE  UKR 
 16  AUSTRIA  AUT 
 17  SWEDEN SWE 
 18  HONG KONG  HKG 
 19  CZECH REPUBLIC  CZE 
 20  SOUTH AFRICA RSA 
 21  FINLAND FIN 
 22  KAZAKHSTAN  KAZ 
 23  KIRGHIZISTAN  KGZ 
 24  DENMARK  DEN 

 

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