Italian squad captures another silver medal in 2011 Universiade Games, Shenzhen – Fencing news
The last day of The 2011 Universiade Games brought another silver medal for Italian squad in Shenzhen. The Blue squad captured the silver medal, their sixth medal of the tournament, in the Men’s Foil Team contest of Universiade Championships on August 18.
The Blue squad had already captured four medals in the previous days’ events including one gold, one silver and two bronze medals. On the fifth day, the Blue squad could not get any medal in both Men’s Epee and Women’s Foil contests. The Italian squad including
Alessio Foconi, Lari Tommaso, Minuto Martino and Luca Simoncelli started their bout with the table of 8. The Blue fighters were given an automatic bye in the table of 16 as they are the top players of Foil discipline.
In the quarter-final table of 8, The Blues faced Ukraine where they found no difficulty in eliminating them. The Italian fighters dropped Ukraine with the score of 45-23 touches in the quarterfinal bout and they were advanced to the semi-final bout. Korea
also headed to the semi-final bout after defeating United States with the score of 45-39. Russia and China also qualified for the semi-final bout after defeating Poland and France respectively.
The Blues faced Korea while China faced Russia in the semi-final bout. The semi-final bout featured very strong matches as China and Russia both froze their bouts at the score of 44-44. In the additional minute given by the referee, the crowed witnessed
tremendous victory of Chinese squad as they hit the final deciding hit against Russia. The Blues also got tremendous victory over Korean squad with the tough score-line of 45-40 touches.
Italy and China was the final opponent who fought for the gold medal bout. It was also the strong bout between both but the victory was finally taken by the Chinese Squad who had the world ranked first and most senior fencer, Sheng Lee in their team. Italy
lost his final bout from China with the score of 45-40. China was rewarded with the gold medal while the Blues were honoured with the silver medal. Russia defeated Korea to get the bronze medal of Foil event.
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