Gauthier Grumier wins gold medal for the third consecutive time: Fencing News
The Frenchman, Gauthier Grumier, won for the third consecutive time another Epee World Cup that took place at Buenos Aires in Argentina from June 17 to June 19.
Grumier is the undisputed leader in Epee discipline. The victory in the World Cup circuits is always a gold standard of results for fencers. It is always the dream of a fencer to get victory in the World Cup. But a three-time win is merely an aspiration for many athletes and it was proven by Grumier who completed his third consecutive victory in Buenos Aires Epee World Cup. The French played with the same spirit and sport in the same way in the two previous seasons, by relegating two Germans to second place, Sven Schmid and Joerg Fiedler in 2008-09 and 2009-10, respectively.
By winning all the bouts in the pool matches, Grumier started with the table of 64 as the number one seed by getting an automatic bye from the table of 132. He defeated the Russian, Nikita Glazkov, in the table of 64 with 15-5 scores and qualified for the table of 32. He defeated the Korean, Hwa Seung Jung, and Czech’s Pavel Pitra in next tables to advance to the quarter-final round. Grumier’s opponent at quarter-final was another French, Alexandre Blaszyck, who lost his bout after a strong competition with a close score of 15-13 touches. In semi-finals, Grumier defeated Switzerland’s Fabian Kauter with a 15-12 score-line and qualified for the play-off.
Grumier took the event of the day by defeating the Korean, Won Jin Kim, in the final and took the third season victory’s gold medal. Kim was honoured with a silver medal and was ranked second in the tournament. Switzerland’s Kauter and French Ulrich Robeiri were placed third and fourth in the competitions with bronze medals. The Italian Paolo Pizzo and Alferdo Rota were eliminated in the quarter-final. Therefore, they were ranked at the fifth and sixth positions in the competition with no medals, respectively. The Russian Jeorg Fiedler could not make it to the quarter-final round, but he was successful in getting his place in top 10 fencers of the competition. Fiedler was ranked tenth in the competition.
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