What a day ! After a great scare in Épinal where a huge beam of the sports hall collapsed during the previous night preventing the assaults from taking place yesterday, the French championship shooters from all over France went to first turned into movers. To reach the Palais des Congrès a few kilometers further. Result: start of hostilities at 2 p.m. instead of 8 a.m.
Mickaël Goubert French champion of N2!
Which obviously did not bother the graduates of Fencing Rodez Aveyron engaged in the individual “France”; since in the end, they come back with three medals. Jade Coulibaley, under 20 outclassed, thus climbed to the half, winning bronze in N3. In the elite, the N1, Clémentine Pinier, also upgraded M20, did not, however, manage to cross the stage of the 16th finals, beaten by the former junior world champion from Grenoble, Océane Tahé and 22nd in the end. .
Among the men, despite the money, it was a big disappointment for Alexandre Bardenet. The world No. 7 having to give up his dreams of national glory for two small touches, to be returned to the swordsman of Saint-Gratien Philippe Arthur. A 13-15 loss in the final after a day during which the 2016 European club champion with ERA took out Bouillot (15-14), Pertuisot (15-14), Correnti (15-5) in turn and his colleague from the French team, multi-world champion and 2016 Olympic champion, Yannick Borel, in the half (10-9). Finally, on the floor below (N2), Mickaël Goubert created a real sensation by climbing to the top step of the podium, a very first for the son of the current vice-president in charge of high level and tutelary figure of the Piton Club, Jean-Michel; obviously present in the Vosges this weekend.
Place for the team competition today with in particular the two Ruthenian pennant formations, men and women, engaged in N1. Due to various contrary elements (read our yesterday’s edition), men expect to suffer much more than usual, they whose last supreme title dates back to 2015; while the Ruthenoises could well create a small exploit.
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