Paris 2024 Olympics, Italian swordsmen out in quarters

Fencing, Italy out

Seventh day of competition for fencing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. On Friday French Friday, space for the men’s epee team competition.

CT Dario Chiadòs Italy, with Davide Di Veroli, Federico Vismara, Andrea Santarelli and Gabriele Cimini, è was beaten in the quarterfinal by the Czech Republic with a score of 43-38. It was a point-to-point match that saw the Czechs overcome the blue quartet only in the final. Now the placement board, at 3 p.m. the match against Venezuela.

Soì Andrea Santarelli after an elimination that surely stings: “My positive partials? We always talk about the team, winning and losing together. I am better against the Czechs and potentially I also did little. We always struggled with them, struggled, the Czech Republic è a strong national team, after all, the eight best teams in the world are here. Still we gave our best, sorry we could not win the semifinal”.