The French women’s foil team lost in the final to the Russian Olympic Committee team and thus won the silver medal. The four members of the team play in Ile-de-France fencing clubs.
This is the third medal for French fencing in Tokyo. At the end of a bitterly disputed final against the team of the Russian Olympic Committee, the foilists won this Thursday a new silver medal, the eleventh in total for the French clan and the third for tricolor fencing. Ysaora Thibus, Anita Blaze, Pauline Ranvier and Astrid Guyard lost 45-34 in the final.
After the defeat Anita Blaze explained that she was ” disappointed but proud of the girls’ journey ». « This team which has grown despite the difficulties “Confided Pauline Ranvier to France Télévisions. This medal allows the French women to wash away the affront of their performances during the individual events since only Ysaora Thibus managed to climb beyond the top 10 by hanging on to ninth place. Note that Astrid Guyard only participated in the team event. This is the first Olympic medal for the French women’s foil since 1984 at the Los Angeles Olympics.
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Four Ile-de-France in silver
After a semi-final during which the French recovered from a delay of 12 touches against Italy, the French fencers therefore won a new medal for French fencing. The four shooters have in common that they each evolve in a club in the Ile-de-France region. Ysaora Thibus trains at BLR 92 in Bourg-la-Reine. Anita Blaze trains her in Aubervilliers En Seine-Saint-Denis.
Pauline Ranvier is a resident of the INSEP and originally from Melun while Astrid Guyard, the sister of the Olympic foil champion in Athens, Brice, is from Boulogne-Billancourt. It is therefore a new medal for fencing in Ile-de-France after Olympic gold won by the VGA swordsman Saint-Maur Romain Cannone.
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