ANALYSIS OF THE 2012 EUROPEAN FENCING CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MEN AND WOMEN, HELD IN LEGNANO, ITALY

Journal Title: Sport Mont - Year 2013, Vol 0, Issue 37

Abstract

We analyzed the participations and the rankings of the different European states in the 2012 Europen Championship. The diversity, which fencing brings with it in United Europe always attracts a lot of the attention of the sport public as an innovative and dynamic sport discipline. In this article the total number of contestants and the number of contestants in the different weapons for both sexes are monitored. We found that the most competitive disciplines were epee men discipline with 92 participants and epee women discipline with 75 participants, and the least competitive – foil women discipline with 40 participants. The nation that won the biggest number of medals was Russia with total of 8 medals 4 of wich golden. The first three states ranked by the competitors in the top sixteen group for all weapons are as follows: Russia with 16%, Italy with 15% and Germany with 13%. After observing the technics most widely used by the most successful contestants in this competition we reached to the followig recommendations for Bulgarian fencers to perform better: 1. For a better ranking to be achieved it is necessary attention to be paid on improving the technics of attack, using movements of high difficulty and speed and 2. It is important to improve dramatically the quality of both the attack and the defence.

Authors and Affiliations

Krassimir Petkov, Valentine Panayotov

Keywords

Related Articles

FREQUENCY OF PULSE AS MARKER BALLAST IN SPORTIVE RECREATION

Every fisical activity requires immediatly adoption and respons cardio vascular sistem on applied ballast, then sanitary state of heart is most important for good shape, frequency of pulse (heart) is the best indicator o...

PRICING OF PRODUCTS IN THE SPORTS TOURISM

The market is constituted in the sport tourism as well as other markets, which means that the market operators, market price and the main object of the constituent elements of the tourism market. The market is a set of i...

SAMOPUZDANJE I SPORTSKA USPJEŠNOST

Samopouzdanje se određuje i kao osobina ličnosti (stepen ubijeđenosti u uspjeh u sportu) i kao stanje (vjera u sebe koju sportista ima u datom trenutku). Samopouzdanje kod sportista se ispoljava u sljedećim oblicima pona...

Utilization of Research for Elite Sport in the Czech Republic

In 2015 and 2016, the author conducted an audit of the Czech national elite sports policy using the international research methodology called SPLISS (Sports Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success). Base...

EFFECT OF FLEXIBILITY ON THE RESULTS OF DOLPHIN SWIMMING TECHNIQUE

In order to determine the impact of flexibility on the results in swimming, we conducted a study on a sample of 50 female patients aged 11-14 years of age who are in the training process in the swimming clubs „Nis 2005“...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP194138
  • DOI -
  • Views 56
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Krassimir Petkov, Valentine Panayotov (2013). ANALYSIS OF THE 2012 EUROPEAN FENCING CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MEN AND WOMEN, HELD IN LEGNANO, ITALY. Sport Mont, 0(37), 335-340. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-194138