Lviv Fencers Triumph at the Ukrainian Championship
The competitions began on April 19 in Kyiv. On the third day of the competition, medals were won by representatives from the Lviv region.
Success in Individual Competitions
In individual épée competitions, 16-year-old Alina Dmytruk claimed the gold medal. In the same category, Ksenia Panteleeva took third place, and Anna Maksymenko made it to the top-8.
The athletes met in the semi-final stage of the tournament, and Alina won with a score of 15:9. Before that, Dmytruk defeated two participants of the 2024 Olympics: in the round of 16 — European Games champion Joanne Fahey Bezhura (15:6), and in the quarterfinals — European champion Vlada Kharkova (15:12).
Interestingly, Ksenia Panteleeva, upon the instruction of their mutual coach, gave Alina valuable advice in the final against Inna Brovko, which ended with a score of 15:12, — noted in the Ukrainian Fencing Federation.
Moreover, recently Alina Dmytruk and Anna Maksymenko returned from China, where they became world champions among juniors in the team épée event. Prior to that, Dmytruk also won individual “silver” among athletes under 17 years, — recalls Roman Khymyak, director of the Department of Sports, Youth, and Tourism of the Lviv Regional Military Administration.
Alina Dmytruk, Ksenia Panteleeva, and Anna Maksymenko are representatives of the regional “School of Higher Sportsmanship” and the FST “Dynamo”. The fencers are trained under the guidance of Ukraine’s esteemed coaches Andriy Orlikovsky and Zoryana Semyriak.
Victories in Men’s Foil
In the men’s foil competitions, the strongest performer was Klod Yunes. The fencer became the Ukrainian champion for the seventh consecutive time.
In the semifinals, the Lviv region athlete defeated Andriy Pohrebnyak with a score of 15:12, and in the finals — Bohdan Pnivchuk (15:10).
Klod Yunes represents the Lviv regional “School of Higher Sportsmanship”, and his coach is Sergiy Haravsky.