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Two Team USA Golds and Silver for Kiefer in Cairo, Guadalajara Senior Foil World Cups

03/01/2022, 2:15pm CST
By Serge Timacheff

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 25-27, 2022—Team USA swept senior team foil World Cup competition with a strong showing this weekend in Cairo, Egypt and Guadalajara, Mexico along with a silver medal for Olympic gold medalist Lee Kiefer (Bluegrass Fencers’ Club).

Cairo Senior Men’s Foil World Cup

Team USA took the gold medal in the men’s team foil event at the National Bank of Egypt Cairo Men’s Foil World Cup, with Chase Emmer (12, V Fencing Club) also landing a top-16 individual result. The event, which took place at the Indoor Halls Complex of Cairo Stadium, featured 176 individual fencers and 27 teams.

The U.S men’s foil team (Chase Emmer, Nick Itkin (LA International Fencing), Adam Mathieu (Fencers Club Inc.), Gerek Meinhardt (Massialas Foundation (M Team))) defeated Russia in the final round for the gold medal, 45-34. Prior to that, USA beat Hungary in the round of 16, 45-22, Egypt in quarterfinals, 45-24, and then Italy in the semifinals, 45-42.

In individual competition, Chase Emmer took 12th place after beating Spain’s Carlos Llavador, 15-10, in the round of 32, before going out to Russia’s Vladislav Mylnikov in the 16, 15-4. Mylnikov ultimately took silver against his teammate, Anton Borodachev, in the final.  Other individual results included Nick Itkin (19), Marcello Olivares (27, Univ. of Notre Dame NCAA), Gerek Meinhardt (33), Ashton Daniel (44, Silicon Valley Fencing Center), Miles Chamley-Watson (50, Fencers Club Inc.), Brandon Li (55, Marx Fencing Academy), Daniel Zhang (64, Star Fencing Academy), Adam Mathieu (72), Ethan Gassner (96, Golden State Fencing Academy) and Sidarth Kumbla (142, New York Athletic Club).

Guadalajara Senior Women’s Foil World Cup

Team USA took the gold medal in the women’s team foil event at the Guadalajara Women’s Foil Senior World Cup, with Lee Kiefer taking a silver medal in the individual event and Maia Mei Weintraub (7, Fencers Club Inc.) making the top-eight. The event took place at the Fiesta Americana Guadalajara Hotel, with 143 individual competitors and 17 teams competing.

In the women’s team event, Team USA (Jacqueline Dubrovich (New Jersey Fencing Alliance), Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs (Peter Westbrook Foundation), Maia Mei Weintraub) scored the gold against Italy in the final match, 45-40. In the semifinals, USA defeated Russia, 45-38, following winning in the quarterfinals against Canada, 45-25, and in the round of 16 against Brazil, 45-13. 

Kiefer faced Italy’s world champion Alice Volpi in the final in the individual women’s event, with the Italian winning by a single touch, 15-14. In prior rounds, Kiefer overcame teammate Weintraub in the quarterfinals by one point, 15-14, before winning against Canada’s Eleanor Harvey in the semifinals, 15-9. Other Team USA individual results included Jacqueline Dubrovich (10), Stefani Deschner (16, Bluegrass Fencers’ Club), Zander Rhodes (49, V Fencing Club), Lauren Scruggs (57), Rachael Kim (61, Top Fencing Club), Sara Taffel (62, New Jersey Fencing Alliance), Delphine Devore (84, Fairfield County Fencing Academy), May Tieu (87, Princeton Univ. NCAA), Sylvie Binder (94, East Coast Fencing Club) and Chin-Yi Kong (100, Golden State Fencing Academy).

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