Hungarians carried out smartly on the weekend’s Fencing World Cup. Five medals have been amassed on the World Cup venues: one gold, two silver and two bronze.
The bathe of medals began with the gold medal of sabre fencer Áron Szilágyi on Saturday, who took the highest step of the rostrum on the males’s World Cup in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The three-time Olympic champion, World Championship and European Championship winner gained his 10th World Cup gold medal.
He reached the ultimate 4 by means of beating Italy’s Mattia Rea 15-11, Turkey’s Tolga Aslan 15-7, Tunisia’s Fares Ferjani 15-10 and Filip Dolegiewicz of america 15-8, the place he beat Italy’s Luigi Samele 15-6 after which Iran’s Ali Pakdaman 15-7 within the ultimate. “(…) I started the day a bit rusty, the young Italian made me sweat. Then, as we went forward, I got a better and better feel for fencing. In the final four I controlled the matches all the way through and of course I am very happy with the gold. At the same time, I felt deep down that I still had a lot of work to do in both defense and attack before the Olympics,” Szilágyi stated.
Also on Saturday, Eszter Muhari gained the bronze medal within the girls’s épée on the World Cup in Barcelona.
The Hungarian épée fencer beat Noemi Moeschlin of Switzerland 15-12, after which global score’s No. 2 and protecting global champion Marie-Florence Candassamy of France. She then outlasted Italy’s Giulia Rizzi 12-11, whilst she expectantly defeated Ukraine’s Olena Krivicka 15-6. In the semi-finals, she performed South Korea’s Song Se Ra and misplaced 15-7.
Sugár Battai gained the silver medal in girls’s sabre on the World Cup in Lima, Peru.
Liza Pusztai, who may be a two-time global champion with the Hungarian group, completed 8th.
Battai beat Lucia Martin-Portugues of Spain and Tatiana Nazlymov of the U.S. 15-11, and Jun Ji Su of South Korea 15-14, earlier than profitable by means of the similar margin towards ultimate yr’s World Championships runner-up Despina Georgiadu of Greece. She additionally were given previous Uzbekistan’s Zaynab Dajibekova 15-12 within the semi-finals and within the ultimate she fought four-time World Championship winner Olga Harlan, who stopped Liza Pusztai within the ultimate 8. Battai was once additionally not able to triumph over the Ukrainian, shedding 15-6 to complete 2nd.
On Sunday, the Hungarian sabre fencing group gained a silver medal on the males’s World Cup in Tbilisi, and with two occasions to move they proceed to guide the Olympic qualification ratings.
The protecting global champions Áron Szilágyi, András Szatmári, Csanád Gémesi and Tamás Decsi beat the Turks 45-38 within the spherical of 16, Egypt 45-33 within the spherical of 8 and america 45-31 within the semi-finals. In the general, Hungary confronted South Korea, whom they beat 45-42 in ultimate yr’s World Cup ultimate in Milan. This time, the South Koreans, World Cup gold medalists within the earlier 4 years, gained by means of a unmarried ranking, 45-44, in a fit that featured a number of twists and turns. “It was a great weekend, even if it is hard for me to recover from what happened in the final. Let’s just say that in my eyes this team won the tournament (…),” the web site of the Hungarian Fencing Federation quoted head trainer András Decsi as pronouncing.
On the similar day, the Hungarian group gained the bronze medal in girls’s sabre fencing on the World Cup in Lima, and additional bolstered its Olympic qualification place.
The group consisting of Battai Sugár, Pusztai Liza, Luca Szűcs, Katona Renáta beat Algeria 45-25 within the spherical of 16 after which defeated the Americans 45-40 within the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, the Hungarians met the French, whom they’d overwhelmed within the finals of the former two World Championships, however this time they misplaced 45-35. In the bronze medal fit, the group beat the Bulgarians 45-42. According to the Hungarian federation, “with two stages to go before the end of Olympic qualification, it is looking more and more like that our place in Paris is secure (…).”
Via MTI, hunfencing.hu; Featured symbol: Pixabay
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