Lignano Junior World Cup Results in Sabre and Epee

Yana Egorian (RUS) defeated Mariya Ridel (RUS) 15-8 to win the Lignano Sabbiadoro Junior Women’s Saber World Cup event today.  The bronze medals were shared by Martina Petraglia (ITA) and Elizaveta Kiryanova (RUS).  3 US women placed in the top-32.

In the Junior Men’s Epee event (the Alpe Adria), Italy and Switzerland each placed 3 fencers into the final 8 as Marco Fichera (ITA) defeated Michele Niggeler (SUI) 12-8 in the finals.  Yusuf Bojte (TUR) and Max Rod (POR) shared bronze.

Junior Women’s Sabre:

Egorian entered the DE table seeded 17th but upset the top seed, Caterina Navarria (ITA) 15-10. Ridel was the only fencer with a top-8 seed (5th) to make the quarter-final round.

The top fencer for the US was Celina Merza, who placed 18th.  Merza entered as the 5th seed and won her match in the top-64 against Kover (HUN) 15-6 but then fell in the round of 32 to Kiryanova (RUS) 15-12.  Skyla Powers also won her top-64 bout before falling 15-14 to Lera Chudikova (UKR), and Francesca Russo defeated Sage Palmedo (USA) in the 64 before falling to Camilla Fondi (ITA) in the 32.

There was coverage of the event in the Italian media and one program is up on YouTube.  (It’s in Italian, of course).  Take a look and past the video are the full final placements.

Final Placement: Junior Women’s Sabre – January 6th, 2012

Final Placement: Junior Men’s Epee – January 6th, 2012