Women’s Epee World Cup 2011 at Barcelona - Day one – Fencing Update
The 35th Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona concluded its first day of Women’s epee World Cup on March 11 at the Institut Nacional d’Educació Física de Catalunya (INEFC) in Spain.
The day featured a total of 42 nations participating in the Women’s individual event with 212 female epeeists as contestants. Among these, the 16 top ranked females received an automatic bye into the Top 64 tableaux.
These were Romania’s Ana Branza, Anca Maroiu, Laura Flessel-Coloric, Hajnalka Kiraly and Maureen Nisima from France. Imke Duplitzer and Britta Heidemann from Germany, Xiaojuan Luo, Yujie Sun and Mingfang Yin from China. Also, Russia’s Tatiana Logounova,
Ukraine’s Yana Shemyakina, Poland’s Magdalena Piekarska, Korea’s Yun Hee Oh, Sweden’s Emma Samuelsson and Netherland’s Sonja Tol.
While the other 196 fencers got divided into 28 pools, each comprising of seven fencers. These fencers confronted their respective pool members to qualify into the next rounds and the strength was to decrease to a total 128. Those who cleared maximum of
their pool matches were headed to the next level.
The best fencers from the lot belonged to Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Switzerland and USA.
The pool qualifiers and the top 128 direct elimination rounds were conducted, which were followed by the top 64 level on the first day. At this point, the females carrying the automatic bye joined in with the fencers that advanced from the preceding rounds.
Apart from the ones with an automatic bye, the fencers that reached up the top 64 include Great Britain’s Corinna Lawrence, USA’s Lauren Willock and Maya Lawrence, Italy’s Rosella Flamingo and Bianca Del Carretto and many others.
Countries like Estonia, Switzerland and Venezuela also managed to equally dominate among the World recognised Italian, Ukrainian, French, German and Chinese female epeeist.
The next rounds will on March 12 in which the top 64 will go through direct elimination rounds reducing from 64 to 32, 16 and then final eight respectively.
Whereas, March 13 will feature the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final round followed by the prize distribution, hence, concluding the event.
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