On the last day, medals for the Azzurri arrives: eliminated the men’s sword and women’s sword teams
No smile, for Italy, on the last day of the World Cup of Tbilisi di Fencing: fifth place for the blue team in the men’s sword and tenth for the women’s saber. In the medal, Italy is the nation that returns home with more medals – you are – together with France and Hungary. Two golds, of the male foil team (Guillaume Bianchi, Alessio Foconi, Filippo Macchi, Tommaso Marini), and of the men’s saber (Luca Curatoli, Michele Gallo, Matteo Neri, Pietro Torre), while the bronzes were four, by Luca Curatoli (individual male saber), Anna Cristino (individual female foil), Martina Favaretto (individual Fioretto), and of the women’s Florento Fioretto. (Arianna Errigo, Martina Favaretto, Anna Cristino, Alice Volpi).
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The swordsman team has seen the dream of a medal in the quarter -final blend. Davide Di Veroli, Matteo Galassi, Andrea Santarelli and Gianpaolo Buzzacchino, after having jumped the 64 board by right, had debuted yesterday in the 16th finals against Sweden, winning 45-43. This morning in the round of 16 Holland 45-35 and then in the quarterfinals Kazakhstan 45-43. Italy was thus diverted to the scoreboard of the placings: there the Azzurri promptly recovered, honoring the competition until the end, with the victories before on Switzerland (45-30) and Denmark (45-28), successes that the fifth position in the world were earned.
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Instead, the race of the wandering quartet made up of Michela Battiston, Chiara Mormile, Eloisa Passaro and Mariella Viale stopped in the round of 16. Yesterday, in the turn of the 16th, the Italian team had imposed itself on Iran 45-23, while today it was exceeded by Spain in the round of 16 for 45-42. In the placing board. Two victories for Italy, first against Hong Kong (45-43) and then on Egypt (45-28). The Ko in the last assault (45-27) against Ain-the team of neutral Russian athletes-marked the 10th final place of our female saber.