Andrea Baldini (ITA) defeated Enzo Lefort (FRA) 15-12 to win the St. Petersburg Men’s Foil Grand Prix. The finals was not one to be expected as #7 seed Valerio Aspromonte (ITA) was the only top-8 seed to make the final 8. Among the upsets were #1 Cassara who lost in the 64, placing 33rd.
4 Russian foilists made it to the final 8 with many upsets along the way. Among those was Dmitry Komissarov, who entered with a world ranking of 73rd but fought his way to the final 4 and world 170 Timur Arslanov who won his first two elimination matches 15-9 against Cheremisinov (RUS) and Le Pechoux (FRA) before falling to Baldini by the same 15-9 score.
Video of the Finals: The match starts at about 25 minutes into the video stream.
Final Placement – 2014 St. Petersburg Men’s Foil Grand Prix
Place | Name | Country |
1 | BALDINI Andrea | ITA |
2 | LEFORT Enzo | FRA |
3 | ASPROMONTE Valerio | ITA |
3 | KOMISSAROV Dmitry | RUS |
5 | KHOVANSKY Alexey | RUS |
6 | RIGINE Dmitri | RUS |
7 | ARSLANOV Timur | RUS |
8 | LEI Sheng | CHN |
9 | MA Jianfei | CHN |
10 | HEO Jun | KOR |
11 | MIYAKE Ryo | JPN |
12 | CHIDA Kenta | JPN |
13 | LE PECHOUX Erwan | FRA |
14 | NISTA Lorenzo | ITA |
15 | GANEEV Renal | RUS |
16 | CHEN Haiwei | CHN |
17 | CHEREMISINOV Alexey | RUS |
18 | CHAMLEY-WATSON Miles | USA |
19 | DAVIS James | GBR |
20 | AVOLA Giorgio | ITA |
21 | MASSIALAS Alexander | USA |
22 | LI Hua | CHN |
23 | GAROZZO Daniele | ITA |
24 | FOCONI Alessio | ITA |
25 | SANITA Andre | GER |
26 | TOFALIDES Alex | GBR |
27 | OTA Yuki | JPN |
28 | SIMON Vincent | FRA |
28 | CADOT Jeremy | FRA |
30 | KWAK Junhyuk | KOR |
31 | YUNES Klod | UKR |
32 | HAN Dongjin | KOR |
33 | CASSARA Andrea | ITA |
34 | JOPPICH Peter | GER |
35 | IMBODEN Race | USA |
36 | KRUSE Richard | GBR |
37 | HA Tae-Kyu | KOR |
38 | SEDOV Artem | RUS |
39 | SHI Jialuo | CHN |
40 | BYK Serguei | BLR |
41 | POSCHARNIG Johannes | AUT |
42 | CHERNIKOV Denis | RUS |
43 | TAO Jiale | CHN |
44 | LUPERI Edoardo | ITA |
45 | LICHAGIN Kirill | RUS |
46 | AWAJI Suguru | JPN |
47 | MEPSTEAD Marcus | GBR |
48 | GLONEK Radoslaw | POL |
49 | VAN HAASTER Maximilien | CAN |
50 | SAFIN Timur | RUS |
51 | CHEUNG Siu Lun | HKG |
51 | COOK Keith | GBR |
53 | POGREBNYAK Andriy | UKR |
54 | PITTA Guillaume | FRA |
55 | MAJEWSKI Michal | POL |
56 | JOURNET Benoit | FRA |
57 | SAKANO Hirokazu | JPN |
57 | BACHMANN Sebastian | GER |
59 | BRAUN Marius | GER |
60 | KIM Hyogon | KOR |
61 | PRANZ Rene | AUT |
62 | PAUTY Maxime | FRA |
63 | PODSHYVALOV Andriy | UKR |
64 | CHALIANKOV Aliaksandr | BLR |
65 | ESCURAT Aymeric | FRA |
66 | KAWIECKI Pawel | POL |
66 | FUJINO Daiki | JPN |
68 | NAGASHIMA Noriyuki | JPN |
68 | HATOEL Maor | ISR |
70 | SAITO Yu | JPN |
71 | ROSOWSKY Husayn | GBR |
72 | KIM Dongsu | KOR |
73 | PLOCHARSKI Filip | POL |
74 | KONTOCHRISTOPOULOS Nikolaos | GRE |
75 | LI Chen | CHN |
76 | NAGAEV Nikita | RUS |
77 | WOHLGEMUTH Dominik | AUT |
78 | TELNYKH Taras | UKR |
79 | UFTRING Niklas | GER |
80 | KULAKOV Dmitriy | KAZ |
81 | MELIA Rhys | GBR |
82 | OSMANSKI Pawel | POL |
83 | KOLTYGO Volodymyr | UKR |
83 | RAJSKI Leszek | POL |
85 | KROEPLIN Moritz | GER |
86 | LECOCQ Hans Joachim | BEL |
87 | STUEHLER Sven | AUT |
88 | SON Young Ki | KOR |
88 | ALVEAR Anibal | CHI |
90 | PARK Guy Meen | KOR |
91 | SILVA Ruben | CHI |
91 | KOMSIC Ivan | CRO |
93 | BORONTOV Pavel | RUS |
94 | FITZGERALD Jamie | GBR |
95 | GOMEZ Daniel | MEX |
95 | ALVEAR Felipe | CHI |
97 | KOLESNIKOV Pylyp | UKR |
98 | JOVANOVIC Bojan | CRO |
99 | ULASIK Yauheni | BLR |
100 | FIJOLIC Vedran | CRO |
101 | FARK Frederic | GER |
102 | PAVINSKIY Andrey | RUS |
103 | GUSTINELLI Johann | GER |
104 | DOBIASCH Martin | AUT |
105 | JANDA Michal | POL |
105 | PETRISIC Natko | CRO |
107 | PROVODNIKOV Alexandr | KAZ |