"Winning a world cup here on Canadian soil is extra special as it was a first believe in fencing!  It felt so great up there singing the National anthem with everybody singing along! It was a lot of fun!”, Schalm-Mackay shared.

Sherraine started off the day with victories over American fencers Phoebe Caldwell (15-9) and Lacey Burt (15-14) before defeating Beata Tereba of Poland 15-11 to move on to the medal round.  In her semifinal match, Sherraine toppled the 2001 World Champion Claudia Bokel from Germany 14-6.

Defeating Harada in the final offered some redemption as it was just last weekend at the Sydney World cup team event that the Japanese fencer had little troubles with Schalm-MacKay in leading her team to victory over the Canadians.

”I was able to stick to the game plan coach Leslie Palmai and I laid out and it paid off.  After last week, I was glad to get a chance to fence her again.”

The bronze medalists were Claudia Bokel and Sonja Tol from the Netherlands.

Other top Canadian results:
Montreal’s Julie Leprohon finished 10th, Magda Krol from Vancouver placed 11^th while Toronto’s Ainsley Switzer was 12^th.

Schalm-MacKay currently leads the World Cup season race with one last World cup to go in Havana, Cuba before the 2006 Torino World Championships in September.