Photo courtesy of Denise Wilson

Monday, April 6, 2009

Men's epee last 64


Safely through to the round of 32 are top seed Gaofeng Shi (CHN), Andrea Santarelli (ITA) no 2 seed and 3rd seed Stian Herbern (NOR). Joining them are early favourites Marco Leombruno (ITA) and Vadim Anokhin, the latter faces Santarelli in the 32. Nicolas Ferreira (BRA) made it through against Spartak Harutyunyan (ARM) in a close fight that was only decided by two single lights in the dying seconds of the match. Nikolaus Bodoczi (GER) made it through at the expense of Britain's James Allen who lost 15-11.


Other Brits in action were Christopher Hay who lost to Robin Kase (SWE), despite some superb fleches he was unable to overcome the speed and timing of the Swede, and Matthew Henderson who put out 8th seeded Vitali Sokolovski (BLR) 15-10 and now faces Mario Wolters (GER).

Here's a photo of Chris Hay, whose stop hit sadly isn't enough to beat the fast moving Swede as he closes the distance to make the touch.