World Champions History


World Champions & Olympic Champions

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History is important in such a long running sport such as Fencing..

Incredible Fencers on the list of Winners

Updated 11/8/16



Olympics Rio 2016


The Olympic’s in Rio

Womens Epee: Gold Emese Szasz HUN, Silver Rossella Flamingo ITA, Bronze Sun Yiwen CHN.

Mens Foil:  Gold Daniele Garozzo ITA, Silver Alex Massialis USABronze Timur Safin RUS.

Womens Sabre:  Gold Yana Egorian RUS,  Silver Sofia Velikaya RUS , Bronze Olga Kharlan UKR

Mens Epee:  Gold Sangyoung Park KOR,  Silver  Geza Imre HUN , Bronze Gauthier Grumier FRA

Womens Foil:  Gold Inna Deriglazova RUS,  Silver Elisa Di Francesca ITABronze Ines Boubakri TUN

Mens Sabre:  Gold Aron Szilagyi HUN,  Silver Daryl HomerUSA,  Bronze Junghwan Kim KOR

Team Events:

Womens Epee:  Gold Romania,  Silver China, Bronze Russia

Mens Foil:  Gold Russia,  Silver FranceBronze USA

Womens Sabre:  Gold Russia,  Silver Ukraine  Bronze USA

Mens Epee:  Gold France,  Silver Italy, Bronze Hungary

Heres the link to the Draw on the official facebook page link 

Medal Standings

Country

Gold

Silver

Bronze

RUS

4

1

1

HUN

2

1

1

ITA

1

3

 

FRA

1

1

1

KOR

1

 

1

ROM

1

 

 

USA

 

2

2

CHN

 

1

1

UKR

 

1

1

TUN

 

 

1

       
updated 15/8/16      


Olympic Qualifiers 2016


Olympic Qualifiers for Rio 2016

Fencers (204) qualified for the Rio Olympics: (as of 27/4/16)

Epee Men (35)  – Bas Verviljen (NED), Kazuyasu Minobe (JPN), Yunlong Jiao (CHN), Nikolai Novosjolov (EST), Alexandre Bouziad (SEN), Jason Pryor (USA), Maxime Brinck-Croteau (CAN), John E Rodriguez (COL), Jiri Beran (CZE), Abdulaziz Alshatti (FIE), Kazuasu Minobe (JAP), Ayman Fayez (EGY), Athos Schwantes (BRA), Nicolas Ferreira (BRA).

Team (FRA) Gauthier Grumier, Yannick Borel, Daniel Jerent, (ITA) Enrico Garozzo, Paolo Pizzo, Marco Ficera, (UKR) Bogdan Nikishin, Dmytro Karyuchenko, Anatolli Gerei, (SUI) Max Heinzer, Fabian Kauter,Benjamin Steffen, (RUS) Vadim Anokhin, Anton Avdeev, Pavel Sukhov, (HUN) Geza Imre, Andras Redli, Gabor Boczko, (KOR) Kyoungdoo Park, Jinsun Jung, Sangyoung Park, (VEN) Ruben Limardo Gascon, Francisco Limardo, Silvio Fernandez.

Epee Women (35)  – Rosella Fiamingo (ITA), Sarra Besbes (TUN), Emese Szasz (HUN), Yana Shemyakina (UKR), Kseniya Pantelyeva (UKR), Ebahi Gwiadys Samoa (CIV),  Nozomi Sato (JPN), Man Wei Vivian Kong (HKG) Leonora Mackinnon (CAN), Kelly Hurley (USA), Katherine Holmes (USA), Courtney Hurley (USA), Thi N H Nguyen (VIE), Juliana Barrett (RSA), Tiffany Geroudet (SUI), Alejandra Teran (MEX), Nozomi Sato (JAP), Tiffany Geroudet (SUI) Team (RUS) Tatian Logunova, Violetta Kolobova, Lyubov Shutova, (CHN) Anqi Xu, Yiwen Sun, Yujie Sun, (ROU) Ana Maria Popescu, Simona Gherman, Simona Pop, (EST) Irina Embrich, Erika Kirpu, Julia Beljajeva, (KOR) A Lam Shin, Injeong Choi, Young Mi Kang, (FRA) Auriane Mallo, Marie Florence Candassamy, Lauren Rembi. (BRA) Nathalie Moellhausen, Rayasa Costa, Amanda Simao.  

Foil Men (32) – Yuki Ota (JPN), Jun Heo (KOR), Peter Joppich (GER), Alexander Choupenitch (CZE), Mohammed Ferjani (TUN), Maximillien Van Haaster (CAN), Daniel Gomez (MEX), Victor Sintes (ALG), Antonio Leal (VEN), Rene Pranz (AUT), Ka L Cheung (KHG).  Team (BRA) Ghislain Perrier, Guilherme Toldo, Henrique Marques, (EGY) Alaaidin Abouelkassem, Tarek Ayad, Mohamed Essam (GBR) James Davis, Richard Kruse, Laurence Halsted, (CHN) Jianfei Ma, Haiwei Chen, Sheng Lei, (USA) Alex Massialis, Gerek Meinhardt, Miles Chamley Watson, (FRA) Jeremy Cadot, Erwan Le Pechoux, Enzo Lefort, (ITA) Giorgio Avola, Daniele Garozzo, (RUS) Timur Safin, Artur Akmatkhuzin, Alexey Cheremisinov.

Foil Women (32)  No team event – Arianna Errigo (ITA), Inna Deriglazova (RUS), Elisa Di Francisca (ITA), Lee Kiefer (USA), Aida Shanaeva (RUS), Ysoara Thibus (FRA), Ines Boubakri (TUN), Nzingha Prescod (USA), Hee Sook Jeon (KOR), Hyunhee Nam (KOR), Astrid Guyart (FRA), Aida Mohamed (HUN) Huilin Le (CHN), Carolin Golubytskyi (GER), Edina Knapek (HUN), Eleanor Harvey (CAN), Saskia Van Erven Garcia (COL), Hanna Lyczbinska (POL), Yongshi Liu (CHN), Noura Mohamed (EGY), Anissa Khelfoui (ALG), Mona Shaito (LIB), Aikaterini-Maria Kontochristopolou (GRE), Malina Calugareanu (ROU), Yuan Ping (NZL), Irem Karamete (TUR), Shiho Nishioka (JAP), Po Hueng Lin (HKG), Isis Gimenez (VEN), Natalay Michel (MEX), Yousara Zakarani (MAR), Delila Hatuel (ISR), Lubna Alomair (KSA), Thi Anh Do (VIE).

Sabre Men (32) No team event – Alexey Yakimenko (RUS), Bongil Gu (KOR), Aron Szilagyi (HUN), Tiberiu Dolniceanu (ROU), Junghwan Kim (KOR), Max Hartung (GER), Aldo Montano (ITA), Eli Dershwitz (USA), Nikolay Kovalev (RUS), Daryl Homer (USA), Mojtaba Abedini (IRI), Diego Occhiuzzi (ITA), Alexander Buikevich (BLR), Vincent Anstett (FRA), Renzo Agresta (BRA), Joseph Polossifakis (CAN), Tamas Decsi (HUN), Ali Pakdaman (IRI), Mohamed Amer (EGY), Yemi Apithy (BEN), Wei Sun (CHN), Matyas Szabo (GER), Thanh An Vu (VIE), Ilya Mokretkov (KAZ), Kenta Tokunan (JAP), Fares Verjani (TUN), (BRA), Pancho Pascov (BUL), Sandro Basadze (GEO), Seppe Van Holsbeke (NED), Andriy Yagodka (UKR), Julian Ayala (MEX), Yoandry Iriarte Galvez (CUB)  .

Sabre Women (35)  – Mariel Zagunis (USA), Ibtihaj Muhammad (USA), Wozniak Dagmar (USA), Chen Shen (CHN), Anna Marton (HUN), Vasilliki Vougiouka (GRE), Azza Besbes (TUN), Chika Aoki (JPN), Alejandra Benitez Romero (VEN) Maria Perez Maurice (ARG), Thi L D Nguyen (VIE), Nada Hafeez (EGY), Sabina Mikina (AZE), Eileen Grench (PAN), (RUS) Sofya Velikaya, Yana Egorian, Ekaterina Dyachenko, (UKR) Olga Kharlan, Alina Komashchuck, (FRA) Cecilia Berder, Charlotte Lembach, Manon Brunet, (KOR) Jiyeon Kim, Seona Hwang, Jiyeon Sei, (POL) Aleksandra Socha, Malgorzata Kozaczuk, Bogna Jozwiak, (ITA) Rosella Gregorio, Irene Vecchi, Loreta Gulotta, Paola Pliego (MEX) Ursula Gonzalez Garate (MEX), Olena Kravaska, Tania Arrayales, Marta Baeza Centurion (BRA), 

For more info go to fie.org. 

updated 21/7/16



Olympic Qualification 2016


Quick Link to confirm athletes taking the 212 spots available for the Fencing Competition in Rio

Link 



Olympic Qualifiers


Congratulations to Yuan Ping NZL for qualifying and on her way to the Rio Olympics !

The current Australian Foil Champion proving her ability and representing NZ with pride..

Congratulations… we’ll be following your progress intently..

ps check out Yuan Ping’s interview from last years national win Link  



Asian Zone Qualifier


Qualifying results for the Australians attempting to qualify for Rio Olympics

Wuxi China 11-12 April ..

Mens Epee -:  16th Kristian Radford                 Womens Epee -:   3rd Joanna Halls

Mens Foil -:   6th Lucas Webber                       Womens Foil -:   9th Alicia Kwag

Mens Sabre-: 13th Jasper Rowley                   Womens Sabre -:  10th Helen Phillips

Nice article on Kristian on the AOC website Link 



World Champions History


World Champions & Olympic Champions

Download World Champions File

History is important in such a long running sport such as Fencing..

Incredible Fencers on the list of Winners



Olympic Funding


Interesting article on the BBC website on the funding of the United Kingdom’s next Olympic cycle..

Comparison of their “Pools” funded Sports programs. We are a fair way behind our ‘close’ rival.. Link

Followed by an editorial on the announcement.. Link


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