Russia clutches gold medal on fifth day of 2011 Universiade Games Shenzhen – Fencing Update
The fifth day of The 2011 Universiade Games comprised another gold medal for Russian squad in Shenzhen, China. The Russian team clutched the gold medal in the Men’s Epee Team contest on the fifth day on August 17.
The Italian squad, who had already won four medals in the four days, could not grab any medal on the fifth day of Universiade Championships. Total 19 teams including Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and France participated in the Epee Team segment of Men.
Unluckily, the Blue squad could not continue their bouts and was dropped in the quarter-final bout. The Russian squad was given an automatic bye in the table of 16 and they started in the table 8. In that table, Russian fencers were set to collide with another
powerful Blue squad.
After strong bout of 45-42 touches, the Russian successfully secure their bout overcoming the Blue squad. Portugal defeated Ukraine after hitting decider hit in the sealed score of 43-43. Hungarian team overcame Switzerland while French defeated Kazakhstan
with the score of 45-38 score-line. Russia, Portugal, France and Hungary were the contestants who qualified for the semi-final bout.
Russian played another stunning bout in the semi-final table against Portugal. When the score seized with the score of 28-28, the Russian squad once again excellently captured the semi-final event with the decider hit and advanced to the final bout against
French squad. The French qualified for the final bout after defeating the Hungarian team with the decider hit in the score of 42-41.
In the final bout, The Russians amazingly captured their bout over the French fencers with the score of 45-40. Russian squad was awarded with the gold medal and final standing in the competition. The French squad captured silver medal and was honoured with
the second standing in the contest. The bronze medal fight was conducted between the team of Hungary and Portugal which was captured by the Hungarian squad. The performance of Blue squad was not so efficient and they were ranked eighth in the competition.
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