The second Sabre Grand Prix of the season is getting ready in Seoul (KOR), at the SK Handball Gym. A total of 163 men and 153 women are entered, with the cream of the fencing elite ready to go:
● Men:
1. Eli Dershwitz (USA) ~ 2018 World Champs silver medalist
2. Sang-Uk Oh (KOR) ~ 2018 World Champs Team gold medalist
3. Max Hartung (GER)
4. Aron Szilagyi (HUN) ~ 2012 & 2016 Olympic Champion
5. Luca Curatoli (ITA) ~ 2015 World Champs Team gold medalist
6. Kamil Ibragimov (RUS) ~ 2018 World Champs bronze medalist
7. Jung-Hwan Kim (KOR) ~ 2018 World Champion
8. Bon-Gil Gu (KOR) ~ 2018 World Champs Team gold medalist
9. Jun-Ho Kim (KOR) ~ 2018 World Champs bronze medalist
10. Enrico Berre (ITA) ~ 2015 World Champs Team gold medalist
● Women:
1. Sofya Velikaya (RUS) ~ 2018 World Champs silver medalist
2. Cecilia Berder (FRA) ~ 2018 World Champs Team gold; 2017 Worlds bronze
3. Anna Marton (HUN) ~ 2015 World Champs bronze medalist
4. Sofia Pozdniakova (RUS) ~ 2018 World Champion
5. Olga Kharlan (UKR) ~ 2017 World Champion
6. Ji-Yeon Kim (KOR) ~ 2012 Olympic Champion
7. Anne-Elizabeth Stone (USA) ~ 2018 World Champs bronze medalist
8. Bianca Pascu (ROU)
9. Manon Brunet (FRA) ~ 2018 World Champs Team gold medalist
10. Yaqi Shao (CHN)
In addition, the 2016 Olympic silver medalist, Daryl Homer (USA: ranked 11th) is also entered.
In the first Grand Prix, held in Cairo (EGY) back in February, Oh was the men’s winner over Szilagyi in the final, with Sandro Badzade (GEO) and Jun-Ho Kim as bronze medalists. Velikaya won the women’s tournament against Soo-Yeon Hoi (KOR), with Berder and Kharlan third.
No. 1-ranked Dershwitz has maintained his place at the top, thanks to a World Cup win in Warsaw in February, plus fifth-place finishes in two other World Cups and fifth at the Cairo Grand Prix. The Seoul Grand Prix is one of Dershwitz’s favorite tourneys: he won it in 2016 and took a bronze last year.
Look for results from Seoul here.
