373 athletes, including Olympic champions, will participate in the fencing tournament as part of the All-Russian Spartakiad of summer sports among the strongest athletes in 2022 Sophie Lokhanova (Pozdnyakov) and Yana Egoryan according to the press service of the Russian Fencing Federation (FFR).
The competitions will be held at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace in the capital from August 22 to 27.
There will be 16 men’s and women’s foil teams, 15 epee teams and 13 men’s and 12 women’s saber teams. Certain regions in a number of disciplines will be represented by individual athletes. A total of 87 teams, 373 athletes from 27 subjects of the Russian Federation, will take part in the Spartakiad fencing tournament.
The strongest fencers of our country will meet on the slopes of the Spartakiad, including swordsmen Lokhanova (Pozdnyakova), Yegoryan, Olga Nikitina, Kamil Ibragimov, Veniamin Reshetnikov, Dmitry Danilenko, foil fencers Marta Martyanova, Adelina Zagidullina, Anton and Kirill Borodachev, Vladislav Mylnikov, Timur Safin, fencers Sergei Bida, Nikita Glazkov, Sergei Khodos, Pavel Sukhov, Violetta Kolobova and Aizanat Murtazaeva.
The individual competitions will take place according to a mixed system: preliminary round (athletes compete in groups), knockout round, final part (semi-finals, final). There is no battle for 3rd place. In team competition types, winners are determined according to the Olympic system with all places identified.
Source : MatchTV
