Logan Storie and Samantha Achterberg fell behind early in the team-relay mixed competition on Sunday and weren’t able to recover very far. After wining just 17 of their fencing duels and placing seventh of the eight teams they did have their best part of the day next winning the swimming competition. The score gap was so large though as they dropped 21 points compared to fifth place in the fencing while picking up only 10 points fifth place in the swimming. They finished seventh in riding and fifth in the combined to end up sixth overall but 90 seconds behind the winners from Ireland.

The UIPM World Championships are coming up in Moscow May 15th-23rd.

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One would probably not have predicted that Nathan Schrimsher, 28th after the fencing competition, would finish anywhere near the top. Schrimsher trailed Jianli Guo of China, the fencing winner, by 53 seconds of handicap for the combined event as the day started. But Schrimsher posted the third best swimming sore and won the riding competition to move into the top 10. A sixth place finish in the combined meant he was within eight seconds of medaling and finished seventh. An outstanding day for Schrimsher. His brother Lucas Schrimsher had finished tenth in fencing but 16th in fencing and 31st in riding left him out of contention. He finished 19th in the combined event and 27th overall.

Tomorrow the event wraps up with a mixed relay competition.

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Despite starting the day with a 26th place finish in the swimming competition Isabella Isaksen came on strong with 10th place finishes in both the riding and combined events to rise up to a 12th place finish. Samantha Achterberg had a little more to overcome after 25th and 15th place finishes in the swimming and riding competitions. She posted the sixth best time in the combined event but ended five seconds behind Isaksen. The final US competitor, Margaux Isaksen, had posted 15th and 12th place finishes in the swimming and riding events and was actually the top US competitor going into the combined portion. She was 21st in that event though and fell to 16th overall.

The rest of the men’s event is Saturday.

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Thursday was the fencing competition at the UIPM World Cup Final in Sarasota and Lucas Schrimsher was the best of the Americans competing. Schrimsher won 19 of his 35 matches to place tenth. His brother Nathan Schrimsher placed 28th winning 15 matches. As you can tell there were a lot of competitors right around .500 with 23 of the 35 competitors scoring between 15 and 20 wins. On the women’s side Margaux Isaksen was the top American with a 17th place finish and 17 wins while her sister Isabella Isaksen was 19th with 17 wins as well. Samantha Achterberg had 14 wins and placed 30th.

The rest of the women’s event will be Friday while the men’s event is Saturday.

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The UIPM World Cup Final begins on Thursday in Sarasota, Florida and five Americans will be in the field. In the men’s competition Nathan Schrimsher and Lucas Schrimsher, 22nd in Cairo will represent the US. Over in the women’s competition it’ll be Isabella Isaksen, 17th in Hungary, Samantha Achterberg, and Margaux Isaksen, fifth in Cairo. Achterberg will also compete in the mixed relay with Logan Storie.

Competition begins Thursday with the fencing round robin competitions. The rest of the women’s event will be Friday while the men’s event is Saturday. The mixed relay will be Sunday.

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Isabella Isaksen was the top American on Saturday in the final of the UIPM World Cup event in Kecskemet, Hungary. Isaksen sat 27th after the swimming portion but had her strongest portion of the final in the fencing where she won 21 of her 35 matches to finish fifth. She ended up with a total of 1287, 65 back of the winner Anastasiya Prokopenko of Bulgaria. Samantha Achterberg was ahead of Isaksen after the swimming portion where she finished 23rd but only winning 11 of 35 fencing matches left her well back and top 15 finishes in riding and combined were only enough to place her 27th overall with 1254.

The final of the UIPM World Cup is in Sarasota, Florida starting on May 6th.

Four American men participated in qualifying on Friday but none were able to reach Sunday’s final. Brendan Anderson came the closest as he was eighth in his group in the combined event but a lower score in the swimming portion might have done him in as he finished with 1135 points and 1154 was the last qualifier. Sam Ruddock scored 1056 doing his best work in the pool while Joshua Spegman (977) and Justin Torrellas (913) were well off the mark.

Saturday will be the final day of competition for the Americans as Samantha Achterberg and Isabella Isaksen compete in the women’s final.

Both American women competing at the UIPM World Cup in Kecskemet, Hungary scored high enough on Thursday to reach Saturday’s final. Samantha Achterberg used a strong 543 score in her combined competition, tied for tenth on the day, and decent scores in the swimming and fencing to post a 1019 that was six points clear of the first person to miss the final. Isabella Isaksen was even stronger in the combined with a 548, tied for seventh on the day, and won 15 of her fencing matches to finish with a 218 in that category and a total of 1042 that had her easily in the final. Jessica Davis failed to qualify for the final after finishing last in the swimming category in her group and struggling in the combined as well.

On Friday Brendan Anderson, Sam Ruddock, Joshua Spegman, and Justin Torrellas will try to qualify for the men’s final. This is Ruddock, Spegman, and Torrellas’ first world cup event of the year while Anderson competed in Rome as well. Anderson is the only one to ever advance from qualifying at a world cup event.

The fourth stop of the UIPM World Cup is this weekend in Kecskemet, Hungary and two American women will be taking part on Thursday. Samantha Achterberg was in the final back in February in Cairo but missed out in the last two events including a disappointing 67th in qualifying in Rome last month. Isabella Isaksen reached the final in both Rome and Cairo but missed out in Rio de Janeiro in March. On Thursday both will go through qualifying with hopes of finishing among the top 36 women and qualifying for Saturday’s final.