A pivotal three days for Italian fencing
Fencing, World Cup
A critically important weekend for Italian fencing has just kicked off between Belgium and the United States, with 36 Italian athletes on the piste. The spotlight is on women’s saber. On Belgian soil, in fact, the World Cup test in which the definitive passes for the Paris 2024 Games will be awarded will be staged. Italy è is also in the running in this specialty thanks to the recent excellent results of coach Nicola Zanotti’s quartet that, in the team event scheduled for Sunday, March 17, will have to confirm its position in the rankings, which would currently see it qualified as “best European” just behind the “top 4”. A very important goal to secure her place in the competition for Nations at the ’Olympics and at the same time the right to field three athletes in the individual event.In Sint Niklaas, for&strong>, the first two days will start as always with the individual competition. Already admitted by right of ranking to the main draw from 64 on Saturday are Martina Criscio and Chiara Mormile.
Soccer, the blue saberists
From Friday, right from the group stage, another10 blue sabre fencers will try to join them: Giulia Arpino, Michela Battiston, Alessia Di Carlo, Benedetta Fusetti, Rossella Gregorio, Eloisa Passaro, Claudia Rotili, Manuela Spica, Irene Vecchi and Mariella Viale. Then, on Sunday, the highly anticipated team competition. Italy’s women’s saber will take the platform with the quartet that has managed to rise strongly in the rankings in the last two stages of the World Cup, thanks to a second place in Lima and a fourth in Athens, composed of Michela Battiston, Martina Criscio, Chiara Mormile and Irene Vecchi. The Italian expedition to Belgium will be led by Technical Commissioner Nicola Zanotti, along with coaches Andrea Aquili and Cristiano Imparato and physiotherapist Alessandro Pesce.
Fencing, foil
Ità Washington, however, will hostthe second foil Grand Prix of 2024 after the “Inalpi” Trophy in Turin. As in all GPs, only individual competitions are scheduled, both for women and men, with increased scoring. There are 24 Italian athletes led by head coach Stefano Cerioni and engaged in the U.S. trip. The three-day star-studded event will kick off with the group stage and preliminary knockout draw of the women’s event. Four Italian foil fencers have already been admitted, by ranking right, to the main draw on Sunday: they are Martina Favaretto, Alice Volpi, Martina Batini and Arianna Errigo. They will try to join them, stepping onto the platform Friday, Giulia Amore, Erica Cipressa, Anna Cristino, Aurora Grandis, Camilla Mancini, Francesca Palumbo, Martina Sinigalia and Elena Tangherlini.
Fencing, program
Men’s preliminaries on Saturday. Already qualified, being among the “top 16” in the world rankings, the Azzurri Tommaso Marini, Alessio Foconi and Filippo Macchi. On the piste from the group stage are Giorgio Avola, Guillaume Bianchi, Damiano Di Veroli, Davide Filippi, Daniele Garozzo, Francesco Ingargiola, Giulio Lombardi, Edoardo Luperi and Tommaso Martini. Foil Italy in Washington will be led by Head of Arms Stefano Cerioni, along with masters Fabio Galli, Eugenio Migliore, Filippo Romagnoli and Giovanna Trillini, with them for the medical staff present Dr. Valeria D'Errico and physiotherapists Maurizio Iaschi and Stefano Vandini.
