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Paul Lesigne
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Jan 2, 2025 at 11:42 a.m.
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Registrations for the 46th edition of the Henri-Foussard Memorial of Lisieux (Calvados) have been closed since Wednesday January 1, 2025, and the event will break a new record for entrants: Saturday January 11 and Sunday January 12, 2025, 296 fencers are expected in the multi-activity room.
“The event will have 14 representatives in the World Top 64 or French Top 16, underlines the club Fencing Lisieuxwhich organizes the competition. True indicators of the quality of a tournament, these two rankings allow swordsmen to be exempt from the first day of competition. »
Two Olympic athletes
After having already announced a few headliners, likeAlexandre Bardenet, Paul Allègre et Lilian Nguefack“the last week of registrations saw the arrival of new great champions of French fencing,” notes the club.
Luidgi Midelton (Beauvais) will be there:
“At 26 years old, he is coming off an exceptional 2023-2024 season. In December, he won his first senior World Cup event in Vancouver before becoming double European champion (individual and team) at the start of the summer, just before his first participation in the Paris Olympics (18th in individual , 4th in teams). »
The former junior world champion took 3rd place in Foussard in 2023.
Fencing Lisieux also highlights “another great Olympic athlete”, Valentin Belaud (Saint-Maur), “one of the finest records in modern pentathlon”: “With two participations in the Olympic Games in Rio (21st) and Tokyo (11th), he is also a double individual world champion. »
Several outsiders
Among the contenders for victory are: Gaëtan Billa (Paris UC), “vice-world team champion in 2023 and unfortunate finalist of the Foussard in 2024”, Mathias Biabiany (E3F Thionville), “winner of the 2019 Foussard and military world champion”, and Nelson Lopez-Pourtier“3rd in Foussard 2024 and winner of the Paris 2021 World Cup”.
As for Raphael Dominici“surprise of the 2024 edition with a first national podium during the Foussard”, the young Douaisian “will try to do as well in a few days in Lisieux”.
Borel, Cannone and Gally absent
Tokyo Olympic champion Romain Cannone, this summer’s Olympic vice-champion Yannick Borel and the very recent French champion Aymerick Gally will not be present in Lisieux. The first two “have not resumed competitive fencing since the Olympics and, for the moment, no official information on their resumption has been communicated,” indicates the club.
Saturday January 11 and Sunday January 12 in the Lisieux multi-activity room. Online ticketing at this link.
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