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The World Fencing Championships are underway in Hungary’s capital
\nBudapest. The event is crucial as among other things it makes a compulsory
\ncriterion for the qualifiers of next year’s Olympics Games in Japan. So far, saber
\nfencers have provided the best results for the Romanian delegation, as all four
\nfencers who took part in the competition qualified for the main draw. Tiberiu
\nDolniceanu’s run in the group stage meant six wins in six confrontations, so
\nDolniceanu earned his place among the top 64 fencers. Alin Badea, Florin
\nZalomir and Iulian Teodosiu have secured their qualification for the main draw
\nwith five wins each. All tree fencers will advance to the competition’s next
\nstages in the wake of the preliminary rounds. On Thursday in the main draw,
\nTiberiu Dolniceanu will face the American Khalil Thompson, while Iulian
\nTeodosiu will take on British challenger William Deary. Florin Zalomir will
\nfight China’s Xiaohao Deng and Alin Badea will face Russian opponent Konstantin
\nLokhanov.<\/p>\n
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Also on Thursday, two other Romanians will have their main draw
\nconfrontations. In the women’s epee event, Ana Maria Popescu has qualified
\nstraight into the main draw and will face Lizzie Asis of Venezuela. Amalia
\nTataran emerged of the group stage with five wins and will fight last year’s nations’
\ncompetition world champion in China’s Wuxi, Katharine Holmes of the USA.<\/p>\n
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In the men’s epee event, Mario Persu has advanced to the main draw after
\nsix wins in the group stage. On Friday, July 19, Persu will face Czech
\nchallenger Jakub Jurka. All three other Romanian epee fencers went past the
\ngroup stage, yet they were eliminated in the preliminary rounds. <\/p>\n
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In the World Championships foil event, Maria Boldor’s two wins secured
\nher a place in the main draw, In the first preliminary round, Boldor defeated
\nColombia’s Tatiana Prieto, then in the second preliminary round the Romanian
\nsecured a win against Poland’s Martyna Synoradzka. In a main draw confrontation
\non Friday, Maria Boldor will face Russia’s Inna Deriglazova. <\/p>\n
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