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Spain Scores Upsets in Madrid

Casares won his first world cup gold in Madrid.

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The Villa de Madrid treated its hosts well with individual gold and an upset in team.

Spain took the idea of a home court advantage to heart as Fernando Casares won the individual title and Spain knocked off the top seed in the team event at the Villa de Madrid.

The Villa de Madrid Men’s Saber World Cup was something of a mixed bag this year. The event was lacking a few familiar faces as countries are trying out some of their younger athletes to determine who looks good for the Rio Olympic Cycle, plus some athletes took the event off due to injuries.

Noteworthy absences included Aldo Montano (ITA), Rares Dumitrescu (ROU), Alexei Yakimenko (RUS), and 2012’s Olympic Bronze Medalist Nikolay Kovalev (RUS).

Despite the absence of some of last season’s top athletes, the final 8 of the event was mostly the usual suspects. France’s Bolade Apithy and Max Hartung of Germany took 7th and 8th. Our own Daryl Homer took down his third consecutive 6th place finish (Following finishes in Plovdiv and London) and 2012 Olympic silver medalist Diego Occhiuzzi (ITA) took 5th. Nicolas Limbach (GER), and reigning Olympic Gold Medalist Aron Szilagyi (HUN) split bronze.

Veniamin Reshetnikov (RUS), currently ranked 9th in the world, filled in for the absent Kovalev and Yakimenko admirably – bringing home the silver.

Madrid’s gold medalist – the real upset of the event – was won by Fernando Casares of Spain, stepping into the top-8 for the first time since a 5th place finish in 2009. After finishing the 2011/2012 season ranked 106th, Casares battled his way past Olympic silver and gold medalists Occhiuzzi and Szilagyi, before confronting Reshetnikov in the final and, ultimately, winning gold 15-9.

Watch the Gold Medal Bout here:

Quarter-Final Bouts:
Szilagyi (HUN) def. Apithy (FRA): 15-11
Casares (ESP) def. Occhiuzzi (ITA): 15-13
Reshetnikov (RUS) def. Homer (USA): 15-11
Limbach (GER) def. Hartung (GER): 15-14.

Semi-Finals:
Casares (ESP) def. Szilagyi (HUN): 15-14
Reshetnikov (RUS) def. Limbach (GER): 15-12

Gold:
Casares (ESP) dev. Reshetnikov (RUS): 15-9

Team Event

In the team event, Spain continued to get a home town bounce as they knocked out top seeded Russia 45-41 in the opening round of the team event. This paved the way for 9th seed Hungary, who seized on the opening by taking down Spain 45-29 and then went on to defeat Germany (45-33) and China (45-31) to win the team gold.

The United States came in as 7th seed and won their first round match vs. Canada 45-28. The US then lost to #2 Romania 45-42. In the placement rounds, the US defeated Ukraine 45-40 and then ended at 6th place when Italy won out 45-37.

Final Standings: Madrid Team World Cup

RankPointsCountry
164HUNGARY
252CHINA
340ROMANIA
436GERMANY
532ITALY
630USA
728SPAIN
826UKRAINE
925FRANCE
1024CANADA
1123BELARUS
1222POLAND
1321GREAT BRITAIN
1420HONG KONG
1519JAPAN
1618RUSSIA
178IRAN
188SINGAPORE
198AUSTRIA

Final Standings: Villa de Madrid Individual Men’s Sabre

Rank Last First Country
1 CASARES Fernando ESP
2 RESHETNIKOV Veniamin RUS
3 LIMBACH Nicolas GER
3 SZILAGYI Aron HUN
5 OCCHIUZZI Diego ITA
6 HOMER Daryl USA
7 APITHY Bolade FRA
8 HARTUNG Max GER
9 SAMELE Luigi ITA
10 PILLET Julien FRA
11 ZHONG Man CHN
12 BUIKEVICH Aliaksandr BLR
13 JIANG Ke Lu CHN
14 HUEBNER Bjoern GER
15 LIKHACHEUSKI Aliaksei BLR
16 VAN HOLSBEKE Seppe BEL
17 DOLNICEANU Tiberiu ROU
18 YAGODKA Andriy UKR
19 POLOSSIFAKIS Joseph CAN
20 MIRACCO Luigi ITA
21 BOYKO Dmytro UKR
22 ANSTETT Vincent FRA
23 SCEPI Stefano ITA
24 IBRAGIMOV Kamil RUS
25 SZABO Matyas GER
26 DENG Xiaohao CHN
27 BERRE’ Enrico ITA
28 PRYIEMKA Valery BLR
29 BADEA Alin ROU
30 SPEAR Jeff USA
31 KLEBES Johannes GER
32 GALL Csaba Norbert HUN
33 WAGNER Benedikt GER
34 MOREHOUSE Timothy USA
35 SUN Wei CHN
36 ROUSSET Nicolas FRA
37 ZANIN Artem RUS
38 SCHROEDTER Robin GER
39 HUEBERS Richard GER
40 BEAUDRY Philippe CAN
41 GEMESI Csanad HUN
42 SHACHANIN Siarhei BLR
43 MUROLO Massimiliano ITA
44 REGENT Francois FRA
45 HONEYBONE James GBR
46 CURATOLI Luca ITA
47 BALOK Maksim RUS
48 ILIASZ Nikolasz HUN
49 GARCIA MIGUEL Marco ESP
50 SHTURBABIN Oleh UKR
51 GORDON Shaul CAN
52 NUCCIO Riccardo ITA
53 RUELLER Lukas GER
54 LAM Hin Chung HKG
55 GEMESI Bence HUN
56 LIU Xiao CHN
57 CRUTCHETT Alexander GBR
58 GANS Emmanuel FRA
59 IGOE Benjamin USA
60 MEDARD Julien FRA
61 MORENO Pablo ESP
62 TEODOSIU Iulian ROU
63 MIRAMON CHOY Romain FRA
64 FOTOUHI Mohammad IRI
65 CHEN Taotao CHN
66 FOSCHINI Gabriele ITA
66 SKRODZKI Adam POL
68 CIARI Marco ITA
69 SCHROEDTER Sebastian GER
70 OCHOCKI Aleksander USA
71 KONIUSZ Marcin POL
72 LAMBOLEY Benoit FRA
73 PROSKURA Nikita RUS
74 WU Jie CHN
75 COUTURIER Vincent CAN
76 BOMKO Ivan UKR
76 GALATANU Ciprian ROU
78 NIKOLIC Nikolai AUT
79 PEREDA Fernando ESP
80 PUNDYK Dmytro UKR
81 DECSI Tamas HUN
82 KOSMAN Michal POL
83 TANAKA Shun JPN
84 AKULA Mikhail BLR
85 SOUDERS Peter USA
86 SCHWARZ Gilbert AUT
87 PAKDAMAN Ali IRI
88 ABEDINI Mojtaba IRI
88 PELLEGRINI Alberto ITA
90 TORCHUK Oleksandr UKR
91 TERESHKIN Ivan RUS
92 LAURENCE Tristan FRA
93 WILLAU Mathias AUT
94 PIGNOTTI Luca ITA
95 ESCUDERO Sergio ESP
96 LOW Ho Tin HKG
97 BOTEZATU Maxim RUS
98 MIYAYAMA Ryo JPN
99 OLEJNIK Daniel POL
100 CASANOVA Lucas ESP
101 ABRAMOVICH Aliaksandr BLR
102 KINDLER Maximilian GER
103 VELIKIY Trofim RUS
104 CLARKE Michael GBR
105 BARRUYER Philemon FRA
105 GANS Baptiste FRA
107 BOBRAN Cristian ESP
108 LOPEZ MENDEZ Alvaro ESP
109 GALLI Lukas AUT
110 KARABINSKI Artsiom BLR
111 ROMANOVITCH Alexei BLR
112 LEU Clive Yi Yang SIN
113 MANCHENO Guillermo ESP
114 SAVICH Boris RUS
115 GONZALEZ QUINTANA Jaime ESP
115 SERRAHIMA Pepe ESP
117 GANN Henry GBR
118 LU Yi CHN
119 WACHSBERGER Petr CZE
120 MAEDA Shugo JPN
121 ADEL Aly EGY
121 TAHERKHANI Hamidreza IRI
123 DE LA FUENTE Diego ESP
124 YAN Hon Pan HKG
125 ESCUDERO Jorge ESP
126 YOSHIDA Kento JPN
127 PILASZEWICZ Piotr CAN
128 VAZQUEZ Miguel ESP
129 EMOND Olivier CAN
130 WINIGER Lothar SUI
131 CALVINO Diego ESP
132 MULERO Guido Eduardo ARG
132 WARD Fraser GBR
134 PEROS Mark CAN
135 AMR Ahmed EGY
136 VELASCO Javier ESP
137 DOLEZAL Jan CZE
138 RUIZ Tarik CHI
139 SARRIS Evangelos GRE
140 CRUTCHETT Anthony GBR
141 CHANG Chi Hin Cyrus HKG
142 BREYNE Servaas BEL
142 RONDON Mayerwing VEN
144 PEREZ GARROTE Raul ESP
145 MIRANDA Ignacio Jose ARG
146 HOSCHNA Jan CZE
147 MARTIN MARTIN Hernan ESP
148 YEO Joseph Zhi Qiang SIN
149 CHAN David Wei Ren SIN
150 MORIYA Kazunori JPN
151 RUIZ Adrian ESP
151 VASQUEZ Israel CHI
153 RATON Sergio ESP
154 DEL VALLE Daniel ESP
154 CHOY Yu Yong SIN
156 CARRETERO Javier ESP
156 ANDREU Marc ESP
158 TSENG Lin Fang SIN
159 MARTINEZ EGUIA Pablo ESP
159 LUENGO Fernando ESP
161 LOPEZ VELLON Ignacio ESP
162 GRANDON FICA Miguel Angel CHI

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