It was a gold, silver and bronze for US Cadets competing at a huge European Cadet Circuit event this weekend in Budapest, Hungary.
Margaret Lu (Greenwich, Conn.) won the Cadet Women’s Foil event on Sunday, while Jerry Chang (Mountain View, Calif.) won silver and Nobou Bravo-Nobui (San Francisco, Calif.) bronze in the Men’s Foil on Saturday.
Lu, who was the top seed going into the competition, was actually upset in the tableaux of 32 by Germany’s Jessica Kinzel (10-9). Lu had to earn her way through grueling repechage tables back to the table of eight. Her last bout to reach the eight was unfortunately against US teammate Sara Taffel (New York, N.Y.), whom she defeated by the score of 15-7.
In the quarterfinals, Lu beat Hungary’s Szonja Szalai 15-9, and then Karen Weis of Germany 15-6 in the semifinals. For the gold, Lu beat Poland’s Natalia Golebiowska 15-7.
Two more US teammates, Nicole McKee (Valley Stream, Ny.) and Jennifer Yamin (Allendale, N.J.), also reached the top eight, finishing fifth and seventh, respectively.
In the Cadet Men’s Foil event the previous day, Chang earned the silver in a huge field of 166 cadets, teammate Bravo-Nobui won bronze, and two more US cadets reached the final eight.
Chang, seeded 13th going into the table of 128, wound through the tableaux meeting teammate after teammate. His first bout was against a German fencer (Finke), but his next three bouts in a row, and in the semifinals as well, his opponents were all US teammates.
In part, that is because so many US cadets excelled at the competition. In the semifinals, his opponent was Bravo-Nobui, whom he defeated 15-6. Bravo-Nobui had just knocked out Michael Woo (Morristown, N.J.) 15-8.
In the final, Chang finally met his match in Alexander Choupenitch of the Czech Republic, who won the bout 15-5. The fourth cadet to reach the top eight was Adam Mathieu, who lost his quarterfinal bout to Choupenitch 15-1.
Photos provided by Jonathan Chang can be found here.
European Cadet Circuit results can be found at www.eurofencing.info.
RESULTS
ANGYALFÖLD-PBT CUP
European Cadet Circuit
Budapest, HUN, 3 October 2010
Cadet Women’s Foil
157 competitors
1 LU Margaret USA
2 GOLEBIOWSKA Natalia POL
3T SZABO Dorottya HUN
3T WEIS Karen GER
5 MCKEE Nicole USA
7 YAMIN Jennifer USA
9 TAFFEL Sara USA
10 TSUE Ashley USA
11 MASSIALAS Sabrina
27 LALEZARIAN Amanda USA
32 LAWRENCE Mackenzie USA
37 LEE Julia USA
44 LAFFEY Jessie USA
46 LEE Samantha USA
68 KLYCE Eliza USA
75 CRUM Quinn USA
76 YAMIN Liana USA
89 GOLDSTEIN Mikela USA
106 CHAN Stephanie USA
Cadet Men’s Foil
166 competitors
1 CHOUPENITCH Alexander CZE
2 CHANG Jerry USA
3T BRAVO-NOBOUI Nobuo USA
3T LANGER Mario AUT
6 WOO Michael USA
8 MATHIEU Adam USA
9 AVENDANO John Philippe USA
12 CHEN Raymond USA
13 BERGMAN Harrison USA
15 EMGE Spicer USA
17 HOLLEY Daniel USA
19 KIEFER Axel USA
30 KOPPEL Willem USA
35 MAGERAS Stephen USA
36 ELKASSAS Adam USA
50 SCHLOSSBERG Ira USA
51 LEE Justin USA
61 HAGLUND George USA
62 GOU Jarred USA
64 BRANMAN Matthew USA
66 ISHIZUKA Jin USA
91 OKUHN Jackson USA
Cadet Men’s Epee
199 competitors
1. HAMAR Balazs HUN
2. BERTA Daniel HUN
3T. CIMINI Gabriele ITA
3T. BUZZI Lorenzo ITA
31. Freiman, Samuel
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