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February
15, 2004
LONDON,
ENGLAND – Julie Leprohon of Montreal, Que., finished 15th at the
Ipswich Cup losing to Marijana Markovic of Germany 15-12.
On her
road to the top 16, Leprohon easily defeated Amber Parkinson of
Australia and Claudia Panuschka of Austria.
In her
best competition of the season so far, Leprohon was satisfied with her
performance. “I was happy with the
way I fenced, I was able to use a wide variety of moves and I got the job done.”
Magdalena
Kumiet of Poland won her second World Cup of the year defeating Keum-Nam Lee of
Korea 15-14 in overtime. The bronze
medallist were Li Na of China and Julija Vansovica of Latvia.
Sherraine
MacKay, ranked third in the world from Brooks, Alta., suffered a second round
loss to Hee-Jeong Kim of Korea 15-14 finishing
17th.
The
Other Canadian results were Monique Kavelaars (Appin, Ont.) placing
35th, Catherine Dunnette (Calgary, Alta.) 43rd and
Marie-Eve Pelletier (Quebec, Que.) finishing
59th.
The
last qualification competition by team for the Athens Olympics is this Friday,
February 20th in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany.
Contact:
Geordie
MacKay
Fencing 'de facto press
officer'
Canadian
Fencing Federation
011
+33 1 42 28 91 81
geordiemackay@yahoo.ca
www.fencing.ca
