{mosimage} March 4th – Plovdiv, Bulgaria – Jason Rogers (23 – Los Angeles, CA) placed a career-high 3rd place, earning Bronze Medal honors at the Glaive D’Asparoukh Gran Prix Men’s Sabre tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Rogers placement catapaulted him up to 19th in the current FIE world rankings.
Rogers lost to World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Stanislav Pozdniakov in a close 15-13 match. Pozdniakov, who is ranked 7th in the world, took 2nd to Boris Sanson of France.
On the way to his bronze medal, Rogers had to knock off team members Ivan Lee (15-7) and Benjamin Igoe (15-8). Igoe placed 15th, while Lee finished 18th.
In the team competition, the US started off by defeating Korea 45-41 and then lost in the quarterfinal round to Italy 45-42. The US team ended up placing 8th after losing to France and then Poland in the placement rounds. The US team remains ranked 8th in the world.
Glaive D’Asparoukh Men’s Sabre Grand Prix: Plovdiv Bulgaria. 3/2/07
Rank Name Nationality
1 SANSON Boris FRA
2 POZDNIAKOV Stanislav RUS
3 KIM Jung Hwan KOR
3 ROGERS Jason USA
5 PILLET Julien FRA
6 LAPKES Dmitri BLR
7 JIANG Ke Lu CHN
8 BUIKEVICH Aliaksandr BLR
9 COVALIU Mihai ROU
10 YAKIMENKO Alexey RUS
11 TRETIAK Vladislav UKR
12 LUKASHENKO Vladimir UKR
13 GAZIN Fabrice FRA
14 CUI Kun CHN
15 IGOE Benjamin USA
16 APITHY Bolade FRA
17 LIMBACH Nicolas GER
18 LEE Ivan USA
19 FROSSINE Alexei RUS
20 WANG Jingzhi CHN
21 MUROLO Massimiliano ITA
22 ZHOU Hanming CHN
23 HARTUNG Max GER
24 ANSTETT Vincent FRA
25 HUANG Yaojiang CHN
26 HWANG Byung Yul KOR
27 SKRODZKI Adam POL
28 WON Woo Young KOR
29 GUO Xiaojun CHN
30 CAVALIERE Alessandro ITA
31 KONIUSZ Marcin POL
32 LENGYEL Balazs HUN
33 NEMCSIK Zsolt HUN
34 DUMITRESCU Rares ROU
35 LOPEZ Nicolas FRA
36 MARTI Jaime ESP
37 ZHONG Man CHN
38 BOYKO Dmytro UKR
39 BEISHEIM Benedikt GER
40 PASTORE Gianpiero ITA
41 KOVALEV Nikolay RUS
42 PRYIEMKA Valery BLR
43 PARK In KOR
44 SANDU Constantin ROU
45 CASARES Ignacio ESP
46 HUEBNER Bjoern GER
47 RODRIGUEZ Abraham VEN
48 LIU Xiao CHN
49 PALASZ Patryk POL
50 NEMIROVITCH Fedor BLR
51 MOREHOUSE Timothy USA
52 KLEBES Johannes GER
53 SHKALIKOV Serhiy UKR
54 MARCEA Virgil ROU
55 HANCEANU Cosmin ROU
56 HABERER Xavier FRA
57 CERANOWICZ Jakub POL
58 DOMINIK Grzegorz POL
59 BRAVO Carlos VEN
60 AQUILI Andrea ITA
61 MEDINA Fernando ESP
62 SIRETEANU Nicolae Alexandru ROU
63 BEAUDRY Philippe CAN
64 SHTURBABIN Oleg UKR
65 DECSI Tamas HUN
66 KIM Sun Ho KOR
67 MONCREIFF Harry GBR
68 CIARI Marco ITA
69 IACOMETTI Luca ITA
70 WILLIAMS James USA
71 OH Eun Seok KOR
72 FLEGLER Sebastian GER
73 RESHETNIKOV Veniamin RUS
74 ZALOMIR Gelu Florin ROU
75 CASARES Fernando ESP
76 WOOG Alexandre FRA
77 GIRARD Kyle CAN
78 JANSEN Hernan VEN
79 BYKOV Pavel RUS
80 GORSKI Mateusz POL
81 PEROS Mark CAN
82 LONTAY Balazs HUN
83 NAGY Zsolt HUN
84 TSONEV Boris BUL
85 ZANIN Artem RUS
86 DIATCHENKO Alexei RUS
87 PELLEGRINI Alberto ITA
88 CROMPTON Adam USA
89 NAGY Pal HUN
90 EFSTATHIOU Evangelos USA
91 OCCHIUZZI Diego ITA
92 SEQUERA Jose VEN
93 GEMESI Csanad HUN
94 LEAL Luis VEN
95 PEEV Angel BUL
96 GHATTAS Patrick USA
97 BUXTON Chris GBR
98 SALFIELD Jon GBR
99 NUNEZ Alejandro ESP
100 ROSE Julian GBR
100 MAYER Nicolas CAN
102 DOLNICEANU Tiberiu ROU
103 KEMBE Sorel-Arthur CGO
104 KIM Min Su KOR
105 MINCHEV Hristo BUL
106 DOLEZAL Jan CZE
107 HUTCHISON Neil GBR
108 KAMADZHIEV Martin BUL
109 MARINOV Ivan BUL
110 GIONOV Dobrin BUL
111 RINCONES ALMAO Eliecer VEN
112 SIMEONOV Ivajlo BUL
113 PETROV Evgeny BUL
114 GUROV Boyan BUL
115 KUTEV Plamen BUL
116 STOYANOV Radoslav BUL
117 IVANOV Antonio BUL
Team Men’s Sabre: Plovdiv Bulgaria. 3/4/07
Rank Name
1 BELARUS
2 GERMANY
3 RUSSIA
4 ITALY
5 FRANCE
6 CHINA
7 POLAND
8 USA
9 UKRAINE
10 KOREA
11 ROMANIA
12 CANADA
13 HUNGARY
14 VENEZUELA
15 SPAIN
16 GREAT BRITAIN
17 BULGARIA