Russian women could not win fencing championship
Russian fencers could not save championship.
They only had "silver" on the last day of championship of the world in German Leipzig. Our four consisting of Elena Nechaeva, Sofia Velikaya, Svetlana Kormiltseva and Ekaterina Fedorkina could not overcome the strength of US national team and lost with score 36:45. Hungarian team had third place. Hungarian women won over Polish fencers with score 45:38.
Elena Nechaeva and Rebecca Ward started the final combat. Lena fenced quite well and she lost only one strike. Svetlana Kormiltseva increased this small deficiency to "minus five" having single combat with Mariel Zagunis who was Olympic champion in Athens. Sofia Velikaya could not change the situation with the first number of the world?s rating Seida Jacobson. But she improved score in her last fight when she a decreased a gap in score 35:25 to 6 points. Then Elena Nechaeva had to surpass the deed of Stanislav Pozdnyakov - to win back 6 strikes in her last fight. But fortune turned away from her that day.
Russian fencers (men) could not win medals in Leipzig. They could reach only 9th place. The French won a victory over Italian in final round and got "gold"
Hence, the French won this championship by the number of gold medals and by all kinds of medal. They had 4 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze medals. National Russian team finished with the second place having 7 awards: 2 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.
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