The final touch for Enzo Lefort, synonymous with gold medals. After winning silver last year in Plovdiv, the French foil fighters took the gold medal in the team event on Friday night in Basel. Lefort, recent continental individual bronze medalist Maxime Poti, Julien Mertin and Maximilian Chastenay dominated Hungary in the final, where they rarely broke away and eventually won by 15 touches (30-45).
Prestigious success just over a month before the Olympic Games in Paris. At the Grand Palais, fencers Aymeric Clos will try to retain his Olympic title, won three years ago in Japan. The sixth-ranked tricolors in the world with the same team will enter the Grand Palais, where they will also have to fight the Italians, knocked out in the semi-finals by the Hungarians in Switzerland, the Japanese, the Americans and even Hong. Kong.
French bronze fencers
With this clean sweep, the Blues now have six medals, including two golds with Luigi Mideltona’s title on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the French fencers won bronze with a narrow victory over Poland (33-32) after a very narrow half-time defeat to Italy (32-31).
France continues its European Championships on Saturday with two new good medal chances. In men’s epee, Romain Cannone, Luigi Midelton, Paul Allegre and Alexandre Bardene came into conflict with the federation after not being selected for the Olympic Games. The latter was called in as reinforcements following the withdrawal of Yannick Borel before the individual competition.
The current European champions Sabreus will try to retain their crown. If world number one Sarah Balzer is out after already missing the individual competition with back pain, France can count on Manon Apita-Brunet, Sarah Nutsch, Cecilia Berder and substitute Caroline Queroli.
Source: Le Parisien
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