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Yakimenko’s Hat-Trick Performance

June 26 2011, 12:47pm

Men’s Results from the NYC Sabre World CupIf anyone was wondering how long Limbach would be debilitated because of his recent injury the answer is not for long. Limbach beat some of the top fencers yesterday before finally going out to Alexey Yakimenko, one of the few fencers these days who is fencing better than the German.Yakimenko’s recent hat-trick of world cups in Madrid, Warsaw, and now New York is unprecedented since he won them all in a row.Yesterday six Americans performed well enough to make the top 64. Of those six, Mike Etropolski, Jeff Spear, and Avery Zuck lost their bouts in the round of 64 to Zalomir from Romania, He from China, and Limbach from Germany respectively.Ben Igoe beat Woog from Israel before losing to reigning world champion Won Woo Young. Daryl made all of New York happy by beating Olympic Champion Aldo Montano from Italy for the first time in his career, including in the top 8 of this tournament last year. Homer then fell to Giampiero Pastore, also from Italy.After doing what his teammate could not in beating Homer, Pastore proceeded to defeat Tim Morehouse in the top-16, eventually earning his second Bronze medal in a row. All in all it was a pretty good showing for the American crowd, three in the 64, two in the 32, and one in the top 16. Tomorrow we cheer out team on in teams!Individual Results: Men’s Sabre NYC World CupPlacementNameNationalityPoints1YAKIMENKO AlexeyRUS322LIMBACH NicolasGER263PASTORE GiampieroITA203GU Bon GilKOR205DUMITRESCU RaresROU146APITHY BoladeFRA147ZALOMIR Gelu FlorinROU148ROUSSET NicolasFRA14Top 16 USA 13MOREHOUSE TimothyUSA8Top 32 USA 29IGOE BenjaminUSA432HOMER DarylUSA4Top 64 USA 41SPEAR JeffUSA245ETROPOLSKI MihailUSA264ZUCK AveryUSA264+ USA 74WILLIAMS JamesUSA076BUCKLEY SeanUSA086OCHOCKI AleksanderUSA088FISCHL AndrewUSA094BAK DanielUSA0101ARZOIAN EricUSA0111YANG StevenUSA0113SPEAR WillUSA0117SOUDERS PeterUSA0119PROCHNIAK EvanUSA0121BAK AdrianUSA0124CHOY JasonUSA0127GOKEA RienziUSA0128DUKHVALOV DennisUSA0130MANDEL AdamUSA0133HALLSTEN JohnUSA0139KIM DanielUSA0143BUCHWALD IsaacUSA0144COPTI CharlesUSA0145BROWN ZackeryUSA0149CLEMENT LutherUSA0151WELLER TeddyUSA0153RYJIK AlexanderUSA0157SCHNEIDER AllenUSA0160PAK PeterUSA0166AUSTIN AdamUSA0168BAKER BradleyUSA0178STREETS KaitoUSA0