Nzighina PrescodAll four Women’s Foilists and 2 in Men’s Epee Advance to Top-64

The 2009 Fencing World Championships continued on Thursday in Antalya, Turkey, with preliminary-round matches in the women’s foil and men’s epee disciplines.

Of the eight US fencers competing across the two divisions, 6 advanced out of the qualification rounds to Sunday’s final tables of 64 fencers, which will run in direct elimination format and conclude with the finals.

{sidebar id=1}In women’s foil, a newly minted American squad took to the piste. All four women’s foilists had to compete in the preliminary rounds and all four found a way to advance to Sunday’s elimination table.

Americans Ambika Singh, Nzingha Prescod, and Lee Kiefer won convincingly in their pool match ups to qualify directly to the top-64. 2008 Olympic Team member Doris Willette faced an elimination bout to qualify for the top-64. She won 12-6 and will face off against Italy’s Margherita Granbassi on Sunday.

The format for the 2009 World Championships is slightly different than years past. Here’s the breakdown:

  • Top 16 fencers in the FIE world rankings automatically qualify for the DE of 64.
  • The top 16 fencers out of pools qualify directly to the final day’s DE of 64
  • The bottom 20% of fencers out of pools are eliminated
  • The remaining fencers compete in a preliminary DE table until 32 remain to fill out the DE table of 64
  • The final day of competition is run as a single elimination DE table.

In men’s epee, the US fencers did not fare as well against the deep talent pool.
Benjamin Bratton won all of his pool bouts and advanced directly to Sunday’s elimination rounds. Eric Hansen won only one of his pool bouts and failed to qualify and the Cody Mattern won one qualification match 15-4 before falling to Poland’s Krzysztof Mikolajczak 15-10. 2008 Olympian Seth Kelsey had a bye into Sunday’s elimination round.

UniversalSports.com will broadcast Sunday’s finals live — the second of six such days — beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.

The competition continues on Friday with the preliminaries of men’s sabre and women’s epee. Discussion continues in the forums.

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Women’s Foil Table of 64

1 NAM Hyun Hee KOR
9:00 bleue
64 KAZANTSEVA Yelena KAZ
10:40 bleue
33 KRYCZALO Katarzyna POL
9:25 bleue
32 LIN Po Heung HKG
12:20 bleue
17 KOROBEINIKOVA Larisa RUS
9:50 bleue
48 BENTLEY Anna GBR
11:05 bleue
49 ANDREI Andreea ROU
10:15 bleue
16 BOUBAKRI Ines TUN
9 JEON Hee Sook KOR
9:00 rouge
56 THERRIEN Annie-Claude CAN
11:30 bleue
41 BERTA Adrienn HUN
9:25 rouge
24 PRESCOD Nzingha USA
12:45 bleue
25 KHISMATULINA Olena UKR
9:50 rouge
40 ICHIKAWA Michiko JPN
11:55 bleue
57 TOR Cansu TUR
10:15 rouge
8 GOLUBYTSKYI Carolin GER
5 GRUCHALA Sylwia POL
9:00 verte
60 COMERFORD Shannon CAN
10:40 rouge
37 CHEN Jinyan CHN
9:25 verte
28 KIEFER Lee USA
12:20 rouge
21 GUYART Astrid FRA
9:50 verte
44 BOTROS Christine BRA
11:05 rouge
53 GHITA Cristina ROU
10:15 verte
12 MAITREJEAN Corrine FRA
13 SCHACHE Anja GER
9:00 jaune
52 RYAN Kelleigh CAN
11:30 rouge
45 KWAN Monica CAN
9:25 jaune
20 KLEINBERGER Sandra AUT
12:45 rouge
29 MOUMAS Melanie FRA
9:50 jaune
36 HATUEL Delila ISR
11:55 rouge
61 WOJTKOWIAK Malgorzata POL
10:15 jaune
4 ERRIGO Arianna ITA
3 GRANBASSI Margherita ITA
9:00 piste 1
62 WILLETTE Doris USA
10:40 verte
35 VARGA Katalin HUN
9:25 piste 1
30 JUNG Gil Ok KOR
12:20 verte
19 SINGH Ambika USA
9:50 piste 1
46 BENNETT Claire GBR
11:05 verte
51 DE MORAIS ROCHEL Tais BRA
10:15 piste 1
14 SHANAEVA Aida RUS
11 BIRIOUKOVA Julia RUS
9:00 piste 2
54 NISHIOKA Shiho JPN
11:30 verte
43 KREISS Fanny HUN
9:25 piste 2
22 SU Wan Wen CHN
12:45 verte
27 IKEHATA Kanae JPN
9:50 piste 2
38 STAHL Cristina ROU
11:55 verte
59 MICHEL Nataly MEX
10:15 piste 2
6 WAECHTER Katja GER
7 VARGA Gabriella HUN
9:00 piste 3
58 KARAMETE Merve TUR
10:40 jaune
39 CHENTSOVA Kateryna UKR
9:25 piste 3
26 CHLEWINSKA Karolina POL
12:20 jaune
23 SEO Mi Jung KOR
9:50 piste 3
42 UJLAKY Virginie FRA
11:05 jaune
55 MORI Yuki JPN
10:15 piste 3
10 DI FRANCISCA Elisa ITA
15 GAFURZIANOVA Kamilla RUS
9:00 piste 4
50 SHI Yun CHN
11:30 jaune
47 EMANUEL Martina GBR
9:25 piste 4
18 DAI Huili CHN
12:45 jaune
31 LELEYKO Olga A. UKR
9:50 piste 4
34 GONZALEZ Mariana VEN
11:55 jaune
63 BARTKOWSKI Maria GER
10:15 piste 4
2 VEZZALI Valentina ITA

{mospagebreak title=Men’s Epee DE Table}

Men’s Epee Table of 64

1 SCHMID Sven GER
64 TIVENIUS Jan SWE
33 MADRIGAL SARDINAS Guillermo CUB
32 SOMFAI Peter HUN
17 LEVIT Doron ISR
48 SCHMITT Martin GER
49 SUKHOV Pavel RUS
16 MARTINELLI Francesco ITA
9 FERNANDEZ Silvio VEN
56 YAGHOOBIAN Ali IRI
41 FONT Marc ESP
24 KAUTER Fabian SUI
25 JARVE Sven EST
40 KATCHIOURINE Serguei KGZ
57 KHVOROST Maksym UKR
8 ABAJO Jose Luis ESP
5 FIEDLER Joerg GER
60 GRYAZNOV Dmitryi KAZ
37 COUFAL Zdenek CZE
28 ALIMZHANOV Elmir KAZ
21 BRATTON Benjamin USA
44 KAUTER Michael SUI
53 JUNG Seung Hwa KOR
12 LUCENAY Jean-Michel FRA
13 LIMARDO Ruben VEN
52 REDLI Andras HUN
45 CADMAN Thomas GBR
20 AVDEEV Anton RUS
29 ZAWROTNIAK Radoslaw POL
36 BAJGORIC Tigran CAN
61 NISHIDA Shogo JPN
4 BOCZKO Gabor HUN
3 ROTA Alfredo ITA
62 DEBIC Ozren CRO
35 REYZLIN Igor UKR
30 VIDEIRA Joaquim POR
19 JUNG Jin Sun KOR
46 SZILAGYI Adrian Ciprian ROU
51 YIN Lianchi CHN
14 CONFALONIERI Diego ITA
11 VERWIJLEN Bas NED
54 MEDVEDEV Vitaliy UKR
43 KARDOLUS Arwin NED
22 BOISVERT-SIMARD Hugues CAN
27 KUDAYEV Ruslan UZB
38 KIM Won Jin KOR
59 PRIINITS Sten EST
6 TAGLIARIOL Matteo ITA
7 KELSEY Weston USA
58 WANG Feng CHN
39 MIKOLAJCZAK Krzysztof POL
26 PARK Kyoung Doo KOR
23 IMRE Geza HUN
42 HERPE Ido ISR
55 TCHALDIN Nikolay LTU
10 NOVOSJOLOV Nikolai EST
15 ROBEIRI Ulrich FRA
50 TOURCHINE Igor RUS
47 JEANNET Jerome FRA
18 MOTYKA Tomasz POL
31 INOSTROZA BUDINICH Paris A. CHI
34 PIASECKI Bartosz NOR
63 SAKAMOTO Keisuke JPN
2 GRUMIER Gauthier FRA

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