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(nda) Stähli's third place was won by a stunning victory in the quarter-finals against Hungarian Olympic champion Emese Szasz-Kovacs with 14:13 overtime, Stähli having always led the second third of the fight and the Hungarian 21 seconds before the end of the fight at 13h13
The course is over for Stähli in the semifinals. There, she defeated the leader of the Italian world ranking and the possible World Champion Mara Navarria 8:15. The two losers in the semifinals won bronze.
The feat of the Stähli World Championship was completely unexpected. Almost no one had awarded Baloise the potential for a medal. At this year's European Championships, Stähli failed in the sixteenth round, at the World Cups only places 37 (Dubai), 32 (Budapest), 205 (Barcelona) and 100 (Havana) Tallinn in October last, she had progressed as a quarter finalist (7) for once in the advanced world class. "With this world champion Laura Stähli medal, the Women's Olympic Qualification for Tokyo 2020 will be at your fingertips," said association president Olivier Carrard. The qualifying one-year phase begins in April 2019. In the world rankings, Stähli has made a giant leap from 53rd to 18th.
Stählis, bronze medal, is the tenth podium of Swiss fencing history, the fourth in women. In the fengings, the last medal of the World Cup goes back to 17 years. Gianna Hablützel-Bürki also won bronze in Nîmes in 2001.
Switzerland has already faced the world champion fencing (men and women): In 1989, the Bernese Anja Straub won the medal of Gold in Denver. Stähli was now the biggest Swiss success in women's fencing since Tiffany Géroudet's singles title at the 2011 European Championships.
Three Swiss men are in action on the sword every Monday. Max Heinzer is the world's number 5 medalist. The fourth Olympians, Benjamin Steffen and Alexis Bayard, European under-23 champion, have chances for the underdogs.
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