Fencing, World Cup: Tris of Italy, Azzurri increasingly protagonists

A super season finale. The epilogue of the World Cup just concluded in Georgia also consecrated the Italy winner of three cups in the world, with the men’s foil teams, female foil and women’s sword: it is the verdict of the points classification defined at the end of the international season 2024/2025, which takes into account the stages of the World Cup circuit, of the continental championships and, of course, of the World Cup. In three out of six team rankings, then the Azzurri excel.

Fiorettists and swords

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Dominant season for the Florentists: winners of four out of five tests – in Tunis, Takasaki, Paris and Cairo – and seconds in Vancouver, the boys of the coach Simone Vanni have first conquered the European title in Genoa and then the world one in Tbilisi, with the formation made up of Guillaume Bianchi, Filippo Macchi, Tommaso Marini and Alessio Foconi. The “Triplete” arrived thus: European Championships, World Cup and World Cup (second the United States, Third The Japan). Italian flagships, in front of the United States and France, also close in the world’s world ranking. For Captain Arianna Errigo and his companions, this season, four wins in the Cup – in Busan, Hong Kong, Cairo and Vancouver – followed by the continental gold and the world bronze. The world cup also wins the blue team of the women’s sword. The in charge Olympic champions confirm, for the second consecutive year, the leadership in the world ranking (followed by France and South Korea). For the swordsmen of the arma manager Dario Chiadò, the decisive results in the circuit were the gold of Barcelona and the silver of Fujairah and Wuxi, then the European bronze in Genoa and the fourth worldwide place in Tbilisi. Three cups in the world, but also many other encouraging signals for Italian fencing in the final rankings of the 2024/2025 season.

saber

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The world’s historic gold of the male saber, obtained in Georgia after the European silver of a month and a half ago, also projected the national team of Andrea Terenzio in third place in the specialty ranking, preceded only by Hungary and France. Fourth place, however, for the men’s sword (bronze at the European Championships and fifth at the World Cup), in a ranking won by Japan. Finally, seventh position for the saber of the coach Andrea Aquili, strong of the continental podium, in a ranking led by France.

top ten

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Many – 15 – also the Azzurri present in the top tens of the individual rankings 2024/2025. In the female foil touched the success in the World Cup, after a super season, Martina Favaretto, second behind the American Lee Kiefer. Follow Anna Cristino (4th), Arianna Errigo (6th) and Martina Batini (7th). Three Italians in the first six positions also in the male foil, where the number one is the Asian and world champion Chun Yin Ryan Choi (Hong Kong): 3rd Tommaso Marini, 4th Guillaume Bianchi, 6th Filippo Macchi. Among the swordshakes, with the Korean evening Song winner of the World Cup, excellent 3rd place for Giulia Rizzi, followed by Alberta Santuccio (8th) and Sara Kowalczyk (9th). In the men’s sword, the Hungarian Gargely Siklosi triumphs, while Davide Di Veroli is 4th and the young Matteo Galassi jumps up to 8th place. In the men’s saber, the Frenchman Jean Philippe Patrice commands, with Luca Curatoli 4th and Michele Gallo 10 °; While in the rankin of the saber, where he closes the Japanese Misaki Emura from number 1, Michela Battiston ranks 8th.

mazzone

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“Winning three cups in the world means giving even more strength to the concepts expressed yesterday, in the hot budgets of the Tbilisi World Cup. In the scenario of an increasingly global fencing, Italy continues to be competitive and to excel in the top specialties, but also to grow in those in which, in recent years, we have encountered greater difficulties or we are in the middle of a generational change. It is one more reason to thank the work so far as our technical commissioners and their staff, We will continue to support more and more, starting from September, in view of the new season “, the comment of the Federal President Luigi Mazzone on the conquest of the three cups in the world that the Italian Fencing Federation will receive in the next FIE Congress scheduled in autumn.