Emese Szasz a castigat competitia de spada de la World Combat Games Imprimare
Sporturi individuale
Sâmbătă, 26 Octombrie 2013 21:41

     În ziua de închidere a Jocurilor Mondiale de luptă, Emese Szasz (HUN) a dominat  competitia    de  spadă feminină, în timp ce Richard Kruse (MB) reușit    în competitia  de bărbați.

                      
     În competitia   de  spadă feminin, Ana Maria Brânză (ROM), Julia Beljajeva (EST), Xu Anqi (CHN) și Emese Szasz (HUN) s-au calificat în semifinale. Branza, scrimer de sus a sezonului 2012/2013 din femei spadă cu care se confruntă

     Meciul   din  semifinala   dintre  Emese Szasz   si Branza fost strâns, cu un mic avantaj pentru Branza la început , dar  spre finalul meciului, cu toate acestea, Szasz-au întors, a transformat meciul și a închis la 15:13   si  a  mers   la finala.

    În meciul medalia de bronz, Xu a   învins   pe  Branza  cu 15:10 , si  a  castigat   prima medalie  pentru  China, la scrimă la aceste Campionatele Mondiale.



The men’s foil event saw some surprises as number two seeded Andrea Cassara (ITA) and also former World Champion Andrea Baldini (ITA) dropped out in the round of 16. It was 2013 World Champion Miles Chamley-Watson (USA), Race Imboden (USA), Artur Akhmatkhuzin (RUS) and British fencer Richard Kruse made it to the semi-finals. Quite unexpectedly, Kruse stopped top seeded Akhmatkhuzin 15:10 while Imboden dominated the match against team mate Chamley-Watson 15:3.

Kruse started the final as he had finished the previous bout: highly focused and determined to succeed. Imboden tried as hard as he could but Kruse had almost always the better answer and won easily 15:4.

In the match for bronze, Akhmatkhuzin prevailed over Chamley-Watson who suffered from a leg injury, 15:12.

Emese Szasz said after winning the gold medal: “I am happy. This is not the most important competition for me, but I am happy. I lost to Julia at the World Championships in Budapest and now, with a different tactic, I could beat her. Now I am looking forward to the next three years, my goal is winning in Rio 2016. The World Combat Games were a great experience. Our small Hungarian fencing team was together the whole week and we watched sports we could never watch before, like kickboxing or grappling.”