Grand Prix foil, five medals for the Azzurri in Shanghai
In Shanghai (China), in the last stage of the world foil circuit before the European Championships in Genoa, Italy racked up medals, winning as many as five. Three of these, a gold and two bronze, came from the women’s competitions, while the men’s tournaments gave the Italian team one silver and one bronze medal.
Winning the gold on the platform of the Chinese megalopolis was Martina Favaretto, who overcame the American Lee Kiefer in the final with a score of 15-11. In the same competition Arianna Errigo and Martina Batini won bronze, stopping short of the two finalists (Errigo was beaten by Favaretto, Batini by Kiefer).
He only came close to the final success, still winning an excellent silver medal, Tommaso Marini, who in the men’s tournament climbed all the way to the final act, but was defeated by Choi, an athlete from Hong Kong, 15-12, not before defeating two-time Olympic champion Cheung (also from Hong Kong) with a score of 15-13.
It was precisely against Choi that Giulio Lombardi stopped: the 15-9 final nevertheless left him on the lowest step of the podium, no small satisfaction on the eve of the continental engagement. Now for the Italian foil fencers it is time to think about the European Championships: the continental review will be held at home, in Genoa, from June 14 to 19 and will be anticipated by the Italian Championships scheduled in Piacenza a few days earlier, from 5 to 10.
