USA Fencing

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – Fencing in the second team event of the men’s saber Junior World Cup season, Team USA placed sixth in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on Sunday.

The four-member squad included 2013 Cadet World Team members Eddie Chin (Livingston, N.J.) and Jonah Shainberg (Rye, N.J.) as well as Jonathan Fitzgerald (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Julian Merchant (New Rochelle, N.Y.)

The fourth-seeded Americans opened with a 45-30 win over Romania in the table of 16, but lost to Egypt, 45-43, in the quarter-finals.

After a 45-36 win over Poland, Team USA lost the fifth place match to Germany, 45-41.  

In the individual competition on Saturday, Andrew Doddo (South Orange, N.J.), Eli Dershwitz (Sherborn, Mass.) and Dawson Sieradzky (Wayne, N.J.) each advanced to the table of 32 where Doddo placed 18th; Dershwitz finished 23rd; and Sieradzky was 29th.

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

Plovdiv Individual Saber Junior World Cup
1. Dmitriy Danilenko (RUS)
2. Bogdan Platonov (UKR)
3. Francesco Bonsanto (ITA)
3. Charles Colleau (FRA)
5. Domenik Koch (GER)
6. Iliy Andreev (RUS)
7. Iacopo Rinaldi (ITA)
8. Kostiantyn Voronov (UKR)

18. Andrew Doddo (South Orange, N.J.)
23. Eli Dershwitz (Sherborn, Mass.)
29. Dawson Sieradzky (Wayne, N.J.)
38. Jonah Shainberg (Rye, N.J.)
41. Ben Natanzon (Manalapan, N.J.)
48. Peter Pak (Roslyn, N.Y.)
56. Edward Chin (Livingston, N.J.)
68. Michael Costin (Culver City, Calif.)
72. Bartosz Pukal (Natick, Mass.)
81. Jonathan Fitzgerald (East Brunswick, N.J.)
107. Andrew Sun (Alpharetta, Ga.)
113. Julian Merchant (New Rochelle, N.Y.)

Plovdiv Team Saber Junior World Cup
1. Russia
2. Ukraine
3. Italy
4. Egypt
5. Germany
6. USA
7. France
8. Poland