| Luana Pekelman is in the main draw/Credit: Wander Roberto/COB |
The second (24th) was a great day for Brazilian fencing in Milan, Italy, where the world fencing. After Nathalie Moellhausen It is Ana Beatriz Bulcaoit was time to Guilherme Toldo, Pedro Marostega and Luana Pekelman secure their places in the main keys of their respective categories.
At male foil, Brazil was represented by three athletes: Guilherme Toldo, Pedro Marostega and Lorenzo Mion. All passed the group stage (which in fencing is called hen), Guilherme having skipped a stage after being one of the first 16. His opponent will be the Belgian Stef de Greef.
Pedro also remains in the competition after beating Taiwanese Che-Hao Yueh 15-9 and Canadian Patrick Liu 15-5. His next opponent will be the Japanese Kyosuke Matsuyama. The third Brazilian, Lorenzo Mion, was eliminated after losing to Canadian Bogdan Hamilton, 15-14. He finished 105th out of 178 competitors in this category.
At female saber we had two fencers: Karina Trois and Luana Pekelman. Both went through chickens. Unfortunately, Karina lost to Georgian Alexandra Kuvaeva by 15-10 and finished the competition in 69th place out of 129 athletes. Luana, meanwhile, remains in contention after beating Azerbaijan’s Sabina Karimova 15-11. Her next opponent will be the Greek Theodora Gkountoura, world number 4.
It should be remembered that after the end of the individual competition, we will have the team dispute. The Fencing World Cup runs until July 30.
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