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Baldini takes down Lefort in St. Petersburg

Logo for the 2014 Men’s Foil Grand Prix

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.


The US fencers had a rough day as 10th ranked Race Imboden lost his first elimination match to Klod Yunes (UKR) 15-9. Alexander Massialas and Miles Chamle-Watson won their opening matches against Journet (FRA) and Pauty (FRA). Massialas fell in the 32 to Dmitry Komissarov (RUS) 15-12 and Chamley-Watson lost to Lei Sheng (CHN) 15-11.

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

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