FENCING: Team USA Wins Silver at La Coruna Foil World Cup, Moves into Historic #2 World Ranking

Guardar

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – The U.S. Men’s Foil Team followed its best ever World Cup result in Paris last month where the squad won gold with a second straight podium finish at the La Coruna World Cup in Spain on Sunday.

The squad of London Olympians Alexander Massialas (San Francisco, Calif.), Race Imboden (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Gerek Meinhardt (San Francisco, Calif.) and Miles Chamley-Watson (Philadelphia, Pa.) won a silver medal and moved up to #2 in the world rankings – the team’s highest ranking in history.

Following Massialas and Meinhardt’s bronze medal wins in the individual event on Saturday, the team was in medal contention after victories over Hungary, 45-40, and France, 45-41, in the first two rounds.

An injured Imboden was unable to fence the semifinal bout against Germany, but his teammates stepped up to keep the score to within a touch as they trailed Germany, 26-25, going into the final bout.

Facing four-time individual Senior World Champion Peter Joppich, Massialas not only secured the win for the Americans, but trounced Joppich, 20-6, to give Team USA the victory, 45-32.

Having left nearly everything on the strip during the previous match, the Americans were unable to hold off Italy – the reigning Olympic Champions – and lost the final match, 45-30.

The silver medal – the U.S. Men’s Foil Team’s second-best result ever at a Senior World Cup – allows the Americans to move ahead of Germany in the World Rankings.

Click here to view complete results.

For more information contact: Nicole Jomantas, USA Fencing Communications Manager, at 719.761.7909 or N.Jomantas@usfencing.org

Asa service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatim textsof selected press releases issued by Olympic-related organizations,federations, businesses and sponsors.

These press releases appear as sent to Around the Rings and are not edited for spelling, grammar or punctuation.

20 Years at #1:

Guardar

Últimas Noticias

Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came

Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa

Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rugby 7s: the best player

Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the

Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”

The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping