Sabre fencers slash through the competition on day 3

All 4 Men’s Sabre Fencers Advance; 2 in Women’s Epee to Compete on Monday in the 2009 Fencing World Championships

Lindsay Campbell in action in today’s elimination match. Photo (c) Serge Timacheff/FencingPhotos.com

The men’s sabre team rode a strong performance in the preliminary pools to advance to Monday’ finals. The women’s epee squad faced more challanges as two fell in the early qualifying rounds.

Tim Morehouse and Ben Igoe each received byes into the DE table of 64 based on their high world rankings. Daryl Homer and James Williams earned enough victories in their preliminary pool bouts to qualify directly to the top-64 to be fenced on Monday.

The women’s epee squad faced a more substantial challenge. Lacking the high rankings of the sabre squad, all four women’s epeeists had to fence in the preliminary pools. Two of them won their way to Monday’s elimination table.

Lindsay Campbell and Kelley Hurley each finished pools 4-2. Courtney Hurley came in with a 3-3 mark and Susannah Scanlan manged only a 1-5 record in the pools round. Kelley Hurley, a 2008 Olympian, lost her direct elimation match to Korea’s OH Yun Hee 15-13. She finished the tournament with a a final placement of 66th and Susannah Scanlan 107th.

World #3 Anna Sivkova (RUS) did not compete in the championships. Morehouse, Williams, and Kelley Hurley were all members of the 2008 Olympic team.

Lindsay Campbell defeated Oxana Svatkovskaya 15-6 and Courtney Hurley bested Great Britain’s Elisa Albini 15-10 to advance into Monday’s elimination table of 64.

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.

UniversalSports.com will broadcast Monday’s finals live – the last day of the individual events – beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.

The competition continues on Saturday with the finals of women’s sabre and men’s foil. Discussion continues in the forums.

2009 Fencing World Championships: Men’s Sabre Top 64

1	LIMBACH Nicolas	GER
	9:00 bleue
64	HUTCHISON Neil	GBR
			10:00 bleue
33	DOLNICEANU Tiberiu	ROU
	9:15 bleue
32	LAM Hin Chung	HKG
				11:00 bleue
17	OCCHIUZZI Diego	ITA
	9:30 bleue
48	LONTAY Balazs	HUN
			10:15 bleue
49	SHIMAMURA Tomohiro	JPN
	9:45 bleue
16	LAPKES Dmitri	BLR
9	ZHONG Man	CHN
	9:00 rouge
56	JIANG Ke Lu	CHN
			10:30 bleue
41	LIKHACHEUSKI Aliaksei	BLR
	9:15 rouge
24	SANSON Boris	FRA
				11:15 bleue
25	OH Eun Seok	KOR
	9:30 rouge
40	GORSKI Mateusz	POL
			10:45 bleue
57	GIONOV Dobrin	BUL
	9:45 rouge
8	PASTORE Giampiero	ITA
5	TARANTINO Luigi	ITA
	9:00 verte
60	BEAUDRY Philippe	CAN
			10:00 rouge
37	WILLIAMS James	USA
	9:15 verte
28	KOVALEV Nikolay	RUS
				11:00 rouge
21	HANCEANU Cosmin	ROU
	9:30 verte
44	BOYKO Dmytro	UKR
			10:15 rouge
53	LIU Xiao	CHN
	9:45 verte
12	MOREHOUSE Timothy	USA
13	NEMCSIK Zsolt	HUN
	9:00 jaune
52	SHTURBABIN Oleg	UKR
			10:30 rouge
45	MAYER Nicolas	CAN
	9:15 jaune
20	SKRODZKI Adam	POL
				11:15 rouge
29	MORENO Pablo	ESP
	9:30 jaune
36	BAZADZE Beka	GEO
			10:45 rouge
61	LUKASHENKO Vladimir	UKR
	9:45 jaune
4	PILLET Julien	FRA
3	MONTANO Aldo	ITA
	9:00 piste 1
62	PARK In	KOR
			10:00 verte
35	RESHETNIKOV Veniamin	RUS
	9:15 piste 1
30	CERANOWICZ Jakub	POL
				11:00 verte
19	HUEBNER Bjoern	GER
	9:30 piste 1
46	GU Bon Gil	KOR
			10:15 verte
51	COUTURIER Vincent	CAN
	9:45 piste 1
14	SZILAGYI Aron	HUN
11	MARTI Jaime	ESP
	9:00 piste 2
54	CASARES Fernando	ESP
			10:30 verte
43	KLEBES Johannes	GER
	9:15 piste 2
22	JANSEN Hernan	VEN
				11:15 verte
27	POLOSSIFAKIS Joseph	CAN
	9:30 piste 2
38	ANSTETT Vincent	FRA
			10:45 verte
59	KEITA Mamoudou	SEN
	9:45 piste 2
6	DUMITRESCU Rares	ROU
7	DECSI Tamas	HUN
	9:00 piste 3
58	ABEDINI SHORMASTI Mojtara	IRI
			10:00 jaune
39	MOKRETSOV Ilia	RUS
	9:15 piste 3
26	PRYIEMKA Valery	BLR
				11:00 jaune
23	HOMER Daryl	USA
	9:30 piste 3
42	TORCHUK Oleksandr	UKR
			10:15 jaune
55	TURLYBEKOV Zhanserik	KAZ
	9:45 piste 3
10	PINA Jorge	ESP
15	IGOE Benjamin	USA
	9:00 piste 4
50	KIM Jung Hwan	KOR
			10:30 jaune
47	BUIKEVICH Aliaksandr	BLR
	9:15 piste 4
18	ZALOMIR Gelu Florin	ROU
				11:15 jaune
31	BEISHEIM Benedikt	GER
	9:30 piste 4
34	YAMAMOTO Koji	JPN
			10:45 jaune
63	O’CONNELL Alexander	GBR
	9:45 piste 4
2	LOPEZ Nicolas	FRA

2009 Fencing World Championships - Women’s Epee Top 64

1	HEIDEMANN Britta	GER
	12:30 bleue
64	KOUBANI Vassiliki	GRE
			13:50 bleue
33	ALEXANDRU Simona	ROU
	12:50 bleue
32	PANUSCHKA Claudia	AUT
				15:10 bleue
17	LUO Xiaojuan	CHN
	13:10 bleue
48	GEROUDET Tiffany	SUI
			14:10 bleue
49	CASCIOLI Cristiana	ITA
	13:30 bleue
16	MARKOVIC Marijana	GER
9	MAROIU Anca	ROU
	12:30 rouge
56	NELIP Ewa	POL
			14:30 bleue
41	POCHKALOVA Anfisa	UKR
	12:50 rouge
24	MACESEANU Iuliana	ROU
				15:30 bleue
25	MILLS Noam	ISR
	13:10 rouge
40	GALANTINE Vanessa	FRA
			14:50 bleue
57	HURLEY Courtney	USA
	13:30 rouge
8	MOELLHAUSEN Nathalie	ITA
5	SHUTOVA Lubov	RUS
	12:30 verte
60	ZVEREVA Yana	RUS
			13:50 rouge
37	KIM Bo-Mi	KOR
	12:50 verte
28	SHIMOOKAWA Ayaka	JPN
				15:10 rouge
21	CAO Yulian	CHN
	13:10 verte
44	WESTMAN Nina	SWE
			14:10 rouge
53	SWITZER Ainsley	CAN
	13:30 verte
12	LAMON Sophie	SUI
13	SAMUELSSON Emma	SWE
	12:30 jaune
52	NAEF Simone	SUI
			14:30 rouge
45	BARVESTAD Kinka	SWE
	12:50 jaune
20	NAKANO Nozomi	JPN
				15:30 rouge
29	SUN Yujie	CHN
	13:10 jaune
36	EMBRICH Irina	EST
			14:50 rouge
61	MARTINEZ Maria	VEN
	13:30 jaune
4	FLESSEL-COLOVIC Laura	FRA
3	SZASZ Emese	HUN
	12:30 piste 1
62	BELJAJEVA Julia	EST
			13:50 verte
35	PIEKARSKA Magdalena	POL
	12:50 piste 1
30	ORTIZ FUENTE Zuleidis	CUB
				15:10 verte
19	XU Anqi	CHN
	13:10 piste 1
46	LAWRENCE Corinna	GBR
			14:10 verte
51	JUNG Hyo-Jung	KOR
	13:30 piste 1
14	SOZANSKA Monika	GER
11	TOL Sonja	NED
	12:30 piste 2
54	PARKINSON Amber	AUS
			14:30 verte
43	NISIMA Maureen	FRA
	12:50 piste 2
22	IZSO Katalin	HUN
				15:30 verte
27	KRYVYTSKA Olena	UKR
	13:10 piste 2
38	SHEMYAKINA Yana	UKR
			14:50 verte
59	RUBLEVSKA Jelena	LAT
	13:30 piste 2
6	DUPLITZER Imke	GER
7	LOGOUNOVA Tatiana	RUS
	12:30 piste 3
58	DOUBOVA Daniela	CZE
			13:50 jaune
39	CAMPBELL Lindsay	USA
	12:50 piste 3
26	DEL CARRETTO Bianca	ITA
				15:10 jaune
23	DMOWSKA-ANDRZEJUK Danuta	POL
	13:10 piste 3
42	PARK Se Ra	KOR
			14:10 jaune
55	NARITA Hiroko	JPN
	13:30 piste 3
10	KIRALY PICOT Hajnalka	FRA
15	SCHALM Sherraine	CAN
	12:30 piste 4
50	QUONDAMCARLO Francesca	ITA
			14:30 jaune
47	PARTALA Olga	UKR
	12:50 piste 4
18	BEREZA Malgorzata	POL
				15:30 jaune
31	TOTH Hajnalka	HUN
	13:10 piste 4
34	KOCHNEVA Olga	RUS
			14:50 jaune
63	OH Yun Hee	KOR
	13:30 piste 4
2	BRANZA Ana	ROU