Day 2 of the 2009 Fencing World Championships

All four Women’s Foilists and 2 in Men’s Epee Advance to Top-64

The 2009 Fencing World Championships continued on Thursday in Antalya, Turkey, with preliminary-round matches in the women’s foil and men’s epee disciplines.

Of the eight US fencers competing across the two divisions, 6 advanced out of the qualification rounds to Sunday’s final tables of 64 fencers, which will run in direct elimination format and conclude with the finals.

In women’s foil, a newly minted American squad took to the piste. All four women’s foilists had to compete in the preliminary rounds and all four found a way to advance to Sunday’s elimination table.

Americans Ambika Singh , Nzingha Prescod , and Lee Kiefer won convincingly in their pool match ups to qualify directly to the top-64. 2008 Olympic Team member Doris Willette faced an elimination bout to qualify for the top-64. She won 12-6 and will face off against Italy’s Margherita Granbassi on Sunday.

The format for the 2009 World Championships is slightly different than years past. Here’s the breakdown:

• Top 16 fencers in the FIE world rankings automatically qualify for the DE of 64.
• The top 16 fencers out of pools qualify directly to the final day’s DE of 64
• The bottom 20% of fencers out of pools are eliminated
• The remaining fencers compete in a preliminary DE table until 32 remain to fill out the DE table of 64
• The final day of competition is run as a single elimination DE table.

In men’s epee, the US fencers did not fare as well against the deep talent pool.
Benjamin Bratton won all of his pool bouts and advanced directly to Sunday’s elimination rounds. Eric Hansen won only one of his pool bouts and failed to qualify and the Cody Mattern won one qualification match 15-4 before falling to Poland’s Krzysztof Mikolajczak 15-10. 2008 Olympian Seth Kelsey had a bye into Sunday’s elimination round.

UniversalSports.com will broadcast Sunday’s finals live – the second of six such days – beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.

The competition continues on Friday with the preliminaries of men’s sabre and women’s epee. Discussion continues in the forums.

Women’s Foil Table of 64

1	NAM Hyun Hee	KOR
	9:00 bleue
64	KAZANTSEVA Yelena	KAZ
			10:40 bleue
33	KRYCZALO Katarzyna	POL
	9:25 bleue
32	LIN Po Heung	HKG
				12:20 bleue
17	KOROBEINIKOVA Larisa	RUS
	9:50 bleue
48	BENTLEY Anna	GBR
			11:05 bleue
49	ANDREI Andreea	ROU
	10:15 bleue
16	BOUBAKRI Ines	TUN
9	JEON Hee Sook	KOR
	9:00 rouge
56	THERRIEN Annie-Claude	CAN
			11:30 bleue
41	BERTA Adrienn	HUN
	9:25 rouge
24	PRESCOD Nzingha	USA
				12:45 bleue
25	KHISMATULINA Olena	UKR
	9:50 rouge
40	ICHIKAWA Michiko	JPN
			11:55 bleue
57	TOR Cansu	TUR
	10:15 rouge
8	GOLUBYTSKYI Carolin	GER
5	GRUCHALA Sylwia	POL
	9:00 verte
60	COMERFORD Shannon	CAN
			10:40 rouge
37	CHEN Jinyan	CHN
	9:25 verte
28	KIEFER Lee	USA
				12:20 rouge
21	GUYART Astrid	FRA
	9:50 verte
44	BOTROS Christine	BRA
			11:05 rouge
53	GHITA Cristina	ROU
	10:15 verte
12	MAITREJEAN Corrine	FRA
13	SCHACHE Anja	GER
	9:00 jaune
52	RYAN Kelleigh	CAN
			11:30 rouge
45	KWAN Monica	CAN
	9:25 jaune
20	KLEINBERGER Sandra	AUT
				12:45 rouge
29	MOUMAS Melanie	FRA
	9:50 jaune
36	HATUEL Delila	ISR
			11:55 rouge
61	WOJTKOWIAK Malgorzata	POL
	10:15 jaune
4	ERRIGO Arianna	ITA
3	GRANBASSI Margherita	ITA
	9:00 piste 1
62	WILLETTE Doris	USA
			10:40 verte
35	VARGA Katalin	HUN
	9:25 piste 1
30	JUNG Gil Ok	KOR
				12:20 verte
19	SINGH Ambika	USA
	9:50 piste 1
46	BENNETT Claire	GBR
			11:05 verte
51	DE MORAIS ROCHEL Tais	BRA
	10:15 piste 1
14	SHANAEVA Aida	RUS
11	BIRIOUKOVA Julia	RUS
	9:00 piste 2
54	NISHIOKA Shiho	JPN
			11:30 verte
43	KREISS Fanny	HUN
	9:25 piste 2
22	SU Wan Wen	CHN
				12:45 verte
27	IKEHATA Kanae	JPN
	9:50 piste 2
38	STAHL Cristina	ROU
			11:55 verte
59	MICHEL Nataly	MEX
	10:15 piste 2
6	WAECHTER Katja	GER
7	VARGA Gabriella	HUN
	9:00 piste 3
58	KARAMETE Merve	TUR
			10:40 jaune
39	CHENTSOVA Kateryna	UKR
	9:25 piste 3
26	CHLEWINSKA Karolina	POL
				12:20 jaune
23	SEO Mi Jung	KOR
	9:50 piste 3
42	UJLAKY Virginie	FRA
			11:05 jaune
55	MORI Yuki	JPN
	10:15 piste 3
10	DI FRANCISCA Elisa	ITA
15	GAFURZIANOVA Kamilla	RUS
	9:00 piste 4
50	SHI Yun	CHN
			11:30 jaune
47	EMANUEL Martina	GBR
	9:25 piste 4
18	DAI Huili	CHN
				12:45 jaune
31	LELEYKO Olga A.	UKR
	9:50 piste 4
34	GONZALEZ Mariana	VEN
			11:55 jaune
63	BARTKOWSKI Maria	GER
	10:15 piste 4
2	VEZZALI Valentina	ITA

Men’s Epee Table of 64

1	SCHMID Sven	GER
64	TIVENIUS Jan	SWE
33	MADRIGAL SARDINAS Guillermo	CUB
32	SOMFAI Peter	HUN
17	LEVIT Doron	ISR
48	SCHMITT Martin	GER
49	SUKHOV Pavel	RUS
16	MARTINELLI Francesco	ITA
9	FERNANDEZ Silvio	VEN
56	YAGHOOBIAN Ali	IRI
41	FONT Marc	ESP
24	KAUTER Fabian	SUI
25	JARVE Sven	EST
40	KATCHIOURINE Serguei	KGZ
57	KHVOROST Maksym	UKR
8	ABAJO Jose Luis	ESP
5	FIEDLER Joerg	GER
60	GRYAZNOV Dmitryi	KAZ
37	COUFAL Zdenek	CZE
28	ALIMZHANOV Elmir	KAZ
21	BRATTON Benjamin	USA
44	KAUTER Michael	SUI
53	JUNG Seung Hwa	KOR
12	LUCENAY Jean-Michel	FRA
13	LIMARDO Ruben	VEN
52	REDLI Andras	HUN
45	CADMAN Thomas	GBR
20	AVDEEV Anton	RUS
29	ZAWROTNIAK Radoslaw	POL
36	BAJGORIC Tigran	CAN
61	NISHIDA Shogo	JPN
4	BOCZKO Gabor	HUN
3	ROTA Alfredo	ITA
62	DEBIC Ozren	CRO
35	REYZLIN Igor	UKR
30	VIDEIRA Joaquim	POR
19	JUNG Jin Sun	KOR
46	SZILAGYI Adrian Ciprian	ROU
51	YIN Lianchi	CHN
14	CONFALONIERI Diego	ITA
11	VERWIJLEN Bas	NED
54	MEDVEDEV Vitaliy	UKR
43	KARDOLUS Arwin	NED
22	BOISVERT-SIMARD Hugues	CAN
27	KUDAYEV Ruslan	UZB
38	KIM Won Jin	KOR
59	PRIINITS Sten	EST
6	TAGLIARIOL Matteo	ITA
7	KELSEY Weston	USA
58	WANG Feng	CHN
39	MIKOLAJCZAK Krzysztof	POL
26	PARK Kyoung Doo	KOR
23	IMRE Geza	HUN
42	HERPE Ido	ISR
55	TCHALDIN Nikolay	LTU
10	NOVOSJOLOV Nikolai	EST
15	ROBEIRI Ulrich	FRA
50	TOURCHINE Igor	RUS
47	JEANNET Jerome	FRA
18	MOTYKA Tomasz	POL
31	INOSTROZA BUDINICH Paris A.	CHI
34	PIASECKI Bartosz	NOR
63	SAKAMOTO Keisuke	JPN
2	GRUMIER Gauthier	FRA