French swordsmen European champions, foil fencers in silver – Muricas News

The French epeeists received this Thursday in Krakow (Poland) the gold medal of the European Fencing Workforce Championships by dominating Hungary on the wire, whereas the lads’s foil workforce misplaced within the last in opposition to Italy.

Led by three touches three minutes from the top of the match, Auriane Mallo-Breton stored her cool till the top of regulation time to permit the French to choose up the rating (33-33).

And through an unbreathable decisive contact which lasted virtually a minute, a lightning counter-attack from the Lyonnaise gave the victory to the Blues. “I instructed myself that I needed to take my time, to not rush,” she mentioned after the victory.

Auriane Mallo-Breton, Marie-Florence Candassamy and Coraline Vitalis thus retained their European title, received in 2022 in Antalya (Turkey). Thirty minutes later, the French foil fencers misplaced within the last in opposition to the Italian favourites, led by the younger Tommaso Marini (45-39).

“It’s not a nasty recreation, however we must react and proper the small faults that made the distinction”, reacted Rafael Savin, 22, after the defeat. After a failed begin to the match, the French foil fencers virtually acquired again to the rating, with out success.

Alongside Maxime Pauty and Rafael Savin, Guyanese Enzo Lefort missed the prospect to seize one other main workforce title after Olympic gold in Tokyo.

For the French camp, this second day of workforce competitors in Poland is nevertheless within the continuity of a raid on European fencing began the day earlier than.

The French sabers had certainly received the gold medal on Wednesday whereas the ladies foil fencers had taken the silver… and it will not be over.

“It is necessary that we present that we're there in all of the weapons. We must be counted on in Paris,” mentioned Coraline Vitalis. Romain Cannone, particular person gold medalist in Tokyo, is because of compete on Friday alongside the French swordsmen.