Budapest (AFP)
Florist Pauline Ranvier climbed onto her first international podium by winning the silver medal at the World Championships in Budapest on Friday, and brings to the French team her first podium in Hungary after two days of finals.
For the gold, she could not do anything against the Russian Inna Deriglazova, world champion 2015 and 2017 and Olympic champion 2016 in Rio: beaten 15 keys to 11.
In the semi-finals, the 25-year-old Parisian dominated much of the match (6-4, then 13-7) against Italy's Arianna Errigo, world champion in 2013 and 2014, and one of the world's top contenders. of the weapon of the last ten years. With 13 hits everywhere, Ranvier put an end to the series to win 15-13.
The fencer, who has been fired at Melun since 2013, beat Japan's Yuka Ueno (15-11) in the quarter-finals to secure her first podium finish in the big league, which had risen to second place in the World Cup. in March 2017.
Arrived in Budapest after a bad season individual, during which she had trouble passing tricks in the final tables, she managed to sublimate at the best time of the season.
"She had no landmarks when I got to the World Championships, I talked to her a bit, I told her + You did not do anything of the season, the only thing you have to do is that you thoroughly live your World +, "said Emeric Clos, the national coach of foil.
Thanks to her, the French women's foil confirms her presence on a world podium, after the bronze in 2017 in Leipzig (Germany) and the silver, already, in 2018 in Wuxi (China) of Ysaora Thibus, exit in the 8th finals by the Chinese Huo Xingxin (13-12) to sudden death.
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