USA Fencing

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – Nobuo Bravo (San Francisco, Calif.) earned his best international result on Sunday when the 2013 Junior World Team member and Penn State sophomore placed fifth at the Bratislava Junior Foil World Cup in Slovakia.

After an undefeated run in the pools, Bravo was seeded fourth in the direct elimination tables where he opened with 15-9 wins over Nikola Petrovic (SRB) and Stephen Mageras (Darien, Conn.)

Bravo advanced to the quarter-finals after a 15-11 victory in his table of 32 bout against Kyosuke Matsuyama (JPN) in the table of 32 and a 15-9 win against Jeremy Keryhuel (FRA) in the table of 16.

In the quarters, Bravo lost to world No. 1 Alexander Choupenitch (CZE), 15-9.

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Top eight and U.S. results are as follows:

Bratislava Men’s Foil Junior World Cup
1. Alexander Choupenitch (CZE)
2. Ilya Degtyarev (RUS)
3. Francesco Ingargiola (ITA)
3. Andras Nemetth (HUN)
5. Nobuo Bravo (San Francisco, Calif.)
6. Alexander Pivovarov (RUS)
7. Virgile Collineau (FRA)
8. Georg Doerr (GER)

14. Axel Kiefer (Lexington, Ky.)
49. Jerry Chang (Mountain View, Calif.)
55. Stephen Mageras (Darien, Conn.)
61. George Haglund (Califon, N.J.)
66. John Vaiani (Belmar, N.J.)
71. Raymond Chen (Dallas, Texas)
76. David Kong (Rutherford, N.J.)
79. Harrison McGuire (Cos Cob, Conn.)
99. John Philippe Avendano (Colts Neck, N.J.)
115. Jan Maceczek (Marlboro, N.J.)
117. Matthew Branman (Villanova, Pa.)