[Tai Road News]The World Fencing Championship broke out in the top four men’s battles. The world’s “first brother” Zhang Jialang is on fire and shines this season. The world’s third-ranked Italian star Marini Tommaso, Hong Kong’s “Sword God” fought 12: Lost at 15. Although they missed the finals, they still won the bronze medal for the first time without a third runner-up, creating the best result in the history of the Hong Kong men’s flower. 2nd medal.
The Tokyo Olympic gold medalist has maintained his courage this year, winning the individual gold medal in the World Cup Paris Station, the individual gold medal in the Asian competition and the bronze medal in the team competition. This year’s World Championships was listed as the top seed, free from the group stage and preliminaries, and went straight to the top 64 main match that started today. “One Brother” advanced in 4 consecutive games with the upper hand, becoming the third male foil player to advance to the top 8 of the World Championships after Zhang Xiaolun and Cai Junyan, breaking his personal best in the World Championships. In the semi-finals, he continued to repeat the comeback scenario of last year’s Tokyo Olympics top 8 who fell behind by 9:14. In 20 seconds, he scored 6 points and won 15:14 to advance to the top 4, and won the Hong Kong men’s first World Championship medal.
Zhang Jialang 4 toughly challenged the 22-year-old Italian star Marini Tommaso, who is ranked third in the world. The two had only previously met in the round of 16 at the World Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in April this year, and Hong Kong will be the court 8:15 at that time. They met again after 3 months, and the two sides fought quite aggressively. Zhang Jialang fell behind twice and tied twice, but after 2:2, he was suppressed by the opponent and lost 6 points in a row, falling behind to 2:8. The disadvantaged “One Brother” fought back with all his strength and then gradually chased after him. He scored 4 points in a row at 7:12 and chased up to 11:12. , but still bagged a bronze medal, once again writing a new page in the history of Hong Kong men’s flowers. Zhang Jialang will move to the team competition on Friday (22nd) after a day off.
It is worth mentioning that after this World Championships, the points from last year’s Tokyo Olympics will be deducted, which means that Zhang Jialang will lose more than half of his points. If the score of the top swordsmen after deducting the East Olympics is simply calculated, Zhang Jialang will be behind Marini Tommaso by 41 points, but since the World Championship champion will get 80 points, the second runner-up 65 points, and the third runner-up 50 points, it is enough for Marini Tommaso to advance to the top four. The score surpassed Zhang Jialang and rose to No. 1 in the world. No matter what the final result in the World Championships, Gu Hong will drop to No. 2 in the world ranking after the game.
This article is by “Sportsroad“Originally published in “[World Fencing Championships]Zhang Jialang loses to the top 4, but the Italian star wins the bronze medal for the first time and then writes history」