Ma Jianfei
| Ma Jianfei | |
|---|---|
 Ma at the 2015 Paris World Cup | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 29 July 1984 Guangzhou, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb; 12.1 st) |
| Sport | |
| Country | China |
| Weapon | Foil |
| Hand | right-handed |
| FIE ranking | current ranking |
Ma Jianfei (Chinese: 马剑飞, born 29 July 1984) is a Chinese fencer,[1] silver medallist in the 2014 World Fencing Championships at Kazan and team silver medallist in the 2011 World Fencing Championships at Catania. He won the 2013–14 Fencing World Cup. He went to Ludixi Primary School (荻西小学), in Liwan District of Guangzhou. He also took part in the school sports meeting in December 11, 2016.
Career
[edit]In 2012, Ma made the podium three times in the Fencing World Cup, including a gold medal in the Prince Takamado World Cup. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the Men's foil, but was defeated in the quarter-finals by Korea's Choi Byung-chul, who eventually earned a bronze medal.[2] Ma finished the 2012–13 season third in world rankings.
In the 2013–14 season, Ma won the Ciudad de A Coruña World Cup and the Venice Grand Prix. He also earned a silver medal in the Löwe von Bonn World Cup and a bronze medal in the Prince Takamado World Cup. These results pushed him to the first place of the world rankings in May 2014. He was stopped in the quarter-finals at the Asian Championships and came away with no medal. At the World Championships in Kazan he saw off Czech Alexander Choupenitch in the quarter-finals, then had a tight 15–14 win over Russia's Timur Safin. Ma was defeated in the final by another Russian, Aleksey Cheremisinov, and was doomed to a silver medal.[3] In the team event cruised past Egypt, then defeated the top-ranked United States and Italy. They were largely overcome by France in the final and came away with the silver.[4]
References
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- ^ London2012.com Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jianfei Ma". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Mondiaux d'escrime: Italie et Russie en plein festival" (in French). AFP. 19 July 2014.
- ^ Patrick Issert (22 July 2014). "Fleuret : les Bleus sacrés". L'Équipe (in French).
- Chinese male foil fencers
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers for China
- Fencers at the 2014 Asian Games
- Fencers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for China
- Asian Games silver medalists for China
- Asian Games bronze medalists for China
- Asian Games medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Summer World University Games medalists in fencing
- Fencers from Guangzhou
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for China
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century Chinese sportsmen