Only One of Five American Men Advance From Preliminaries

Not a lot of success among the five Americans competing in the preliminaries of the sabre grand prix event in Moscow on Friday. Only one of the five, Jeff Spear, even advanced from their pool to the preliminary table of 64. Leonard Alexander Walker (1-5), Christopher Walker (2-4), Will Spear (2-4), Gabriel Armijo (0-6) all were knocked out in pool play. Jeff Spear won his knockout match 15-5 to join Eli Dershwitz, and Daryl Homer in the table of 64. On the women’s side the preliminaries begin with six Americans competing on Saturday.

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