Winners of the Belarusian Fencing Cup decided in Minsk

The Open Cup of Belarus on fencing ended in the capital’s Sports Palace, the participants of which played six sets of awards, BelTA writes.

On the final day of the tournament, medals were played in sword fencing. Gold among men won the winner of the Cup of the strongest athletes Stepan Koval, who in the final defeated Konstantin Gavrusik. Among the girls, success was celebrated by Ekaterina Rogachevskaya, in the decisive battle, the Minsk woman was stronger than the Russian Vera Shiryaeva.

Earlier victories at the Cup of Belarus were won by rapyrists Egor Ryabtsev and Daria Vlasova, who also became the second in sword fencing. The first places among the spazhists were taken by Mark Semonenko and Alexandra Tsurskaya, silver medals were taken by Timofey Eremenko, Victoria Yaskevich (rapier) and Alexey Rekish (sword).