Italian top seed Tommaso Lari beat team-mate Alessio Foconi 15-9 in an ill-tempered first semi-final of the men's foil. Lari steadily built a lead to 8-2 which mostly maintained to the end of the fight.
In the second semi-final home favourite Ed Jefferies was given a rousing reception and took an early 3 hit lead against Gerek Meinhardt (USA) which he held to go into the first break 6-3 up. In the second period Ed built a 13-8 lead before the American stormed back to 13-12 but Ed again showed enormous calm to close out the fight 15-13 and set up the final clash with Lari.
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