Very good look from Rodopoulou at the premiere of the World Fencing Championship

With very good mourning for our country started in Tbilisi Georgia the World Men’s/Women’s World Fencing Championship.

The first two individual tournaments to take place were those of the men’s sword and the women’s duel sword on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 July.

For Greek colors the Nefeli Rodopoulou (Lx Thessaloniki), which in the big goal of the year managed to get the coveted qualification for the main ’64’ dashboard after an excellent day in the qualifier. Kosmas Karakolis’ athlete went through the Poul Phase with four wins and one defeat and qualified for the “128” board.

The first knockout was over and in the crucial match for qualifying on the second day of the games dominated German Fiona Moler with 15-5. The next day, on Wednesday, July 23, he took a seat on the track for the battle of the “64” on the main board of the event, but bent 15-4 by French Alexandra Louis Marie, finally taking the 47th place among 180 athletes.

The latest Greek woman who had managed to compete in a mainly world -legged world championship board was Niki Sidiropoulou in Budapest in 2017, eight years earlier, when she had 48th.