Photo courtesy of Denise Wilson

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Day 5

It's day five of the championships and we have reached the halfway point.

First up today is junior women's sabre. The top 4 in action are Melanie Mendez Mercado (PUR), Olga Kharlan (UKR), Viktoriya Kovaleva (RUS) and Reka Benko (HUN). Also fencing is newly crowned cadet world champion, Diamond Wheeler (USA) who is seeded 15th for the event. Brits in action are Kira Roberts, Jess Davies and Sophie Williams. Poules are underway at 8.30am.

Men's epee poules start at 9.30am and the top seeded fencers are Luca Ferraris (ITA), Enrico Garozzo (ITA), Dimitry Prokhorov (ISR) and Pau Rosello (ESP). Brits in action are Ben White, Jon May and James Harris.

Good luck everyone!