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2010 Junior & Cadet World Championships Baku, Azerbaijan April 2 - 10, 2010
FencingPhotos.com is bringing you daily coverage of the 2010 Junior & Cadet World Championships from Baku, Azerbaijan, including daily highlight photos as well as galleries of finals, medals, semi-finals, prelim action, and more! Also see photos from the 2010 FIE General Assembly. Full galleries of images, including medal ceremonies, action shots, and more have been posted for all events. (click here to access galleries) We have three photographers in Baku: Serge Timacheff, Christopher Germano, Alexandra Pottier *All highlight photos below are by Serge Timacheff unless otherwise noted.
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Junior Events
Highlights: Junior Men's Foil, Junior Women's Sabre Note: The Junior Men's Foil event medal ceremony has been postponed to the next day due to the black card and exclusion of Italian Tommaso Lari, and the time the FIE took to review the issue. USA's Willette (standing, left) takes bronze after losing to gold medalist El Sayed of Egypt. USA's Roberts (left, by A. Pottier) and Meinhardt (right) On left: Meinhardt fences Italian Lari, who wins, goes into final match, loses, and then is given a black card and excluded. As a result,Meinhardt ascends to a silver medal. On right: Massialas takes sixth place (photo by A. Pottier) Italian Lari, left, was ultimately stunned by El Sayed's winning performance. Ukraine's Olga Kharlan wins gold for the fourth year in a row. Nearly zeroing-out Hungarian Valheryi (at one point, the bout was at 13-0), Kharlan lived-up to her good sportsmanlike image. Egyptian foilist El Sayed had reason to celebrate: Overcoming a bad leg cramp and an underdog image to win gold. Tunisian Besbes loses in the semi-final to Hungarian silver medalist Valheryi, and displays her notorious emotions seen before at the Beijing Olympic Games. Junior women's saber medalists: Valheryi (HUN), Kharlan (UKR), Galiakbarova (RUS), Besbes (TUN)
Highlights: Junior Men's Epee, Women's Foil Junior women's foil: Russia's Deriglazova dominates France's Blaze to take gold. Deriglazova overtook USA's Kiefer (right) to make the semifinal (medal) round. Above: Russia dominates junior women's foil, men's epee with a double-gold night. Classic epee in the seminfinal between Russia's Glazkov and China's Sun. In spite of a phenomenal fleche attack, France's Bardenet was unable to overcome Glazkov for epee gold. Highlights: Junior Women's Epee, Men's Sabre Swedish Gold: Bergdahl beats two top French fencers to win in Junior Women's Epee. Bergdahl winning the semifinal over France's Fernandez. Hungary's Iliasz thunders his way to gold in junior men's saber. Germany's Schrodter was a tough opponent for Iliasz, who narrowly thwarted a come-from-behind run by the German. USA's Daryl Homer (above, lunging in right photo), a favorite to make the finals, went out in the quarter finals to Germany's Schrodter.
Cadet Fencing Highlights
Ukraine wins silver and gold against Hungary, Korea. Left to right, Semenko (silver), Komashuk (gold), Marton & Seo (bronze) Massialas comes from behind to beat Luperi, gets big hug from coach/dad and former Olympian Greg Massialas. Left, Massialas scores against Luperi, who suffered from an arm injury and leg cramp. Left, Imboden (USA) makes the semis; right, cadet men's foil medalists: Luperi, Massialas, Imboden, Lichagin.
USA's Lee Kiefer (cadet women's foil) and Germany's Nikolaus Bodoczi (cadet men's epee) win gold. China's Lin Sheng doubles with Korea's Lee Hye in the cadet women's epee semi-final.
Hungary's Szatmari wins elimination round. April 2 Cadet Men's Saber Cadet Women's Epee	FIE General Assembly meets to discuss issues and annual competition calendar. Below, FIE president Alisher Usmanov addresses representatives from 90 FIE member countries with his opening remarks.