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Women's Foil

Oct 5, 2007

St Petersburg

Day 5 of our ongoing coverage of the 2007 St. Petersburg World Championships! Today we have Women's Foil.


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Take a look at the very strong top-16 field (FIE rankings as of Sept 07, 2007), or view the faces of the top women's foil fencers in our Foil Gallery .

 

If you can't wait to see some fencing, here's our coverage of  Cairo Grand Prix -- Hatuel ISR vs. Goluytskyi GER . 

 

  Quarts de finale

1   GRANBASSI Margherita   ITA  
          GRANBASSI Margherita 
8   UJLAKI Virginie   HUN     15/10    
           18:30 Podium                       
5   KNAPEK Edina   HUN         
          MOHAMED Aida      
4   MOHAMED Aida   HUN     10/9         
                                    
3   VEZZALI Valentina   ITA           
          VEZZALI Valentina      
6   SALVATORI Ilaria   ITA     15/7    
           18:30 Podium                       
7   TRILLINI Giovanna   ITA         
          TRILLINI Giovanna 
2   NAM Hyun Hee   KOR     15/4

 

 

20:00 Same Final as last year!  

Vezzali  ITA vs. Granbassi ITA

 

20:30 Congratulations to V. Vezzali ITA 5 times world champion! 

 

Summary 

 

On the last day of the Individual World Fencing Championships it was one more time Italian Valentina Vezzalli who took the Gold Medal. She beat in the Final match her teammate Margherita Granbassi 11:8. Both had met in last years final alreay. Granbassi had won last years Gold in Torino. The Bronze Medals went to Italy and Hungary. Giovanna Trillini lost in the Semi-Final to Valentina Vezzali and Aida Mohammed (Hungary) lost her Semi-Final Match to Granbassi.

Vezzali is four times Olympic Champion. She had a baby and took a short break between Athens Olympics and Leipzig World Championships in 2005, but she won there as well. She takes now her fifth World title. She underwent a knee surgery after last years Championships in Torino, Italy and again she is back.