Budapest (AFP)
And three: the Russian Inna Deriglazova became 29 years old for the third time in her career world champion foil, after the awards in 2015 and 2017, Friday in Budapest, and confirms a little more dominance.
The final square of the 2019 Worlds looked great in Budapest on Friday, with 2016 Olympic champion Rio de Janeiro, Inna Deriglazova, 2012 Olympic champion London, Italian Elisa di Francisca, and two-time world champion 2013 and 2014 , the Italian Arianna Errigo.
In the middle of this beautiful world, the French Pauline Ranvier has managed to climb on his first international podium by overcoming Errigo in a half spectacular and open.
But the march in the final was too high, Deriglazova showing imperial to win 15 keys to 11. His first two planetary kings, in Moscow in 2015 and Rio in 2016, had been conquered under the leadership of the Italian fencing master. Stefano Cerioni, mentor of di Francisca.
But even without Cerioni, who left after the 2016 Olympics, Deriglazova continued to make her mark on the international women's foil, with a win in Leipzig in 2017 and a second European title in 2018.
In contrast to this stability foil, the sword gentlemen has discovered a new king: the day after the Hungarian disappointment and money Andras Szatmari saber, the Magyar spectators vibrated for the local hero, Gergely Siklosi, who had not done better until then a third place in the World Cup in Paris in mid-May 2019.
The Russian Sergey Bida, in silver, the Italian Andrea Santerelli and the Ukrainian Igor Reizlin, both in bronze, had never set foot on a global podium.
Defending Frenchman Yannick Borel failed to reach the podium, beaten in the quarterfinals by Santarelli.
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