2009 World Fencing Championships
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2009 World Fencing Championships
FIE World Championships in Fencing
The World Championships in Fencing is an annual competition organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime or FIE, . The world championships are, after the Olympic Games, the most prominent international competition in the sport of fencing...

was held at the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya
Antalya
Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...

, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. The event took place from September 30 to October 8, 2009.

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Foil
Épée
Sabre
Team Foil
Team Épée
Team Sabre

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Sabre
Foil
Épée
Team Sabre
Team Foil
Team Épée

Medal table

1 4 2 3 9
2 3 1 2 6
3 1 1 3 5
3 1 1 2 4
5 1 1 1 3
6 1 1 0 2
7 1 0 0 1
8 0 1 3 4
9 0 1 1 2
9 0 1 1 2
11 0 1 0 1
11 0 1 0 1
13 0 0 1 1
13 0 0 1 1

Foil individual

3 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini is an Italian foil fencer.Baldini won the silver medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after he lost the final 15-14 versus Peter Joppich....

 
2. Zhu Jun
Zhu Jun (fencer)
Zhu Jun is a Chinese foil fencer, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major performances:*2003 World Junior Championships - 1st team/individual*2006 Asian Games - 1st team;...

 
3. Peter Joppich
Peter Joppich
Peter Joppich is a German foil fencer.Joppich won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Andrea Baldini 15-14 in the final. He beat Baldini again in the 2007 final, 15-9. He was also the 2003 World Champion.-References:* Markus Wessel / WDR.de...

 
3. Artem Sedov 
5. Andrea Cassara
Andrea Cassarà
Andrea Cassarà is an Italian fencer and Olympian. He has won medals for foil.- External links :*...

 
6. Radoslaw Glonek 
7. Kurt Getz 
8. Shi Jialuo 

Epée individual

4 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Anton Avdeev 
2. Matteo Tagliariol
Matteo Tagliariol
Matteo Tagliariol is a male Italian fencer. He won the gold medal in the men's épée event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

 
3. José Luis Abajo
Jose Luis Abajo
José Luis Abajo Gómez is a Spanish épée fencer.Abajo won the silver medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after losing to France in the final...

 
3. Jérôme Jeannet
Jérôme Jeannet
Jérôme Jeannet is a French épée fencer.His brother, Fabrice Jeannet is a fencer also.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

 
5. Joaquim Videira
Joaquim Videira
Joaquim Filipe Ferreira dos Santos Videira is a Portuguese fencer. He was the épée world vice champion in 2006.-Biography:Joaquim Videira started fencing under the direction of his coach, the Hélder Alves....

 
6. Guillermo Madrigal Sardinas 
7. Krzysztof Mikolajczak 
8. Seung Hwa Jung 

Sabre individual

5 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Nicolas Limbach
Nicolas Limbach
Nicolas Limbach is a German fencer and Olympian. ]. He competed for Germany in the 2008 Olympics.He defeated Rares Dumitrescu of Romania to win the 2009 world champion in Men's...

 
2. Rares Dumitrescu 
3. Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Tarantino is an Italian fencer and Olympic medalist in the sabre competition. He was the 1998 World Champion for men's sabre.-References:...

 
3. Tamas Decsi 
5. Aldo Montano 
6. Gelu Florin Zalomir 
7. Eun Seok Oh
Oh Eun-Seok
Oh Eun-Seok is a South Korean sabre fencer.Oh won gold in team sabre and silver in individual sabre at the 2003 Junior World Fencing Championships in Trapani, Italy....

 
8. Vladimir Lukashenko
Vladimir Lukashenko
Volodymyr Lukashenko is a Ukrainian sabre fencer.He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics....

 

Foil team

6 October - Final
Position Country Name
1.  Italy Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini is an Italian foil fencer.Baldini won the silver medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after he lost the final 15-14 versus Peter Joppich....


Andrea Cassarà
Andrea Cassarà
Andrea Cassarà is an Italian fencer and Olympian. He has won medals for foil.- External links :*...


Stefano Barrera
Stefano Barrera
Stefano Barrera is an Italian foil fencer.Barrera won the bronze medal for the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after he lost 15-13 to Andrea Baldini in the semi final. Two years later, in the 2008 World Fencing Championships he won the team competition.He belongs to Centro Sportivo...


Simone Vanni
2.  Germany Peter Joppich
Peter Joppich
Peter Joppich is a German foil fencer.Joppich won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Andrea Baldini 15-14 in the final. He beat Baldini again in the 2007 final, 15-9. He was also the 2003 World Champion.-References:* Markus Wessel / WDR.de...


Benjamin Kleibrink
Benjamin Kleibrink
Benjamin Philip Kleibrink is a German Foil fencer.Kleibrink's greatest achievement is a gold medal win in men's individual Foil in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. To win gold, Kleibrink beat Kenta Chida 15-10, Lei Sheng 15-7, Zhu Jun 15-4, and then Yuki Ota 15-9 in the final...


Andre Wessels
Sebastian Bachmann
3. Alexandre Stoukaline
Artem Sedov 
Renal Ganeev
Renal Ganeev
Renal Ramilevich Ganeev is a Russian fencer, who has won bronze Olympic medal in the team foil competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.- External links:*...


Alexey Khovansky
4. Zhu Jun
Jialuo Shi
Liangcai Huang
Sheng Lei
5. Yuki Ota
Yuki Ota
is a Japanese foil fencer.He started his career as a fencer in his junior high school years, influenced by his father, who had been also a fencer. He won the national junior high school championships. In Heian High School, he got third consecutive championship victories in national high school...


Yusuke Fukuda
Kyoya Ichikawa
Kenta Chiwa
6. Richard Kruse
Richard Kruse
Richard Kruse is a British fencer who has twice represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics....


Jamie Kenber
Laurence Halsted
Edward Jefferies
7. Gregory Koenig
Brice Guyart
Brice Guyart
Brice Guyart is a foil fencer from France.- Honours :* 2000 – Team Olympic Champion* 2001 – Team World Champion with France* 2001 – World Bronze Medal* 2003 – World Bronze Medal...

 
Erwan le Pechoux
Terrence Joubert
8. Radoslaw Glonek
Slawomir Mocek 
Tomasz Cieply
Marcin Zawada


Epée team

7 October - Final
Position Country Name
1. Jérôme Jeannet
Jérôme Jeannet
Jérôme Jeannet is a French épée fencer.His brother, Fabrice Jeannet is a fencer also.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

 
Ulrich Robeiri
Ulrich Robeiri
Ulrich Robeiri is a French épée fencer.Robeiri won the gold medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Spain in the final. He accomplished this with his team mates Érik Boisse, Gauthier Grumier and Fabrice Jeannet.-References:*...

 
Jean-Michel Lucenay
Jean-Michel Lucenay
Jean-Michel Lucenay is a French épée fencer.-References:*...

 
Gauthier Grumier
Gauthier Grumier
Gauthier Grumier is a French épée fencer.Grumier won the gold medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Spain in the final. He accomplished this with his team mates Érik Boisse, Ulrich Robeiri and Fabrice Jeannet...

2. Peter Somfai 
Andres Redli 
Géza Imre
Géza Imre
Géza Imre is a Hungarian fencer, who has won two Olympic medals in the Épée competitions, a silver medal in 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a bronze medal in 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta....

 
Gábor Boczkó
Gabor Boczko
Gábor Boczkó is a Hungarian fencer, who won a silver medal in the team Épée competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with Krisztián Kulcsár, Géza Imre and Iván Kovács.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

3. Krzysztof Mikolajczak 
Tomasz Motyka
Tomasz Motyka
Tomasz Motyka is a Polish fencer who won a silver medal in Men's Team Épée at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Adam Wiercioch, Radosław Zawrotniak, and Robert Andrzejuk....

 
Radosław Zawrotniak 
Adam Wiercioch
Adam Wiercioch
Adam Wiercioch is a Polish fencer who won a silver medal in Men's Team Épée at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Tomasz Motyka, Radosław Zawrotniak, and Robert Andrzejuk....

4. Jeorg Fiedler 
Christoph Kneip 
Martin Schmitt 
Sven Schmid
5. Max Heinzer 
Fabian Kauter 
Michael Kauter 
Benjamin Steffen
6. Jin Sun Jung 
Seung Hwa Jung 
Kim Won-Jin 
Kyoung Dong Park
7. Diego Confalonieri
Diego Confalonieri
Diego Confalonieri is a male Italian fencer. He won the bronze medal in the men's team épée event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

 
Francesco Martinelli 
Alfredo Rota
Alfredo Rota
Alfredo Rota is a male Italian fencer. He won the bronze medal in the men's team épée event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won the Olympic gold medal in Men's Team Épée at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.- References :...

 
Matteo Tagliariol
Matteo Tagliariol
Matteo Tagliariol is a male Italian fencer. He won the gold medal in the men's épée event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Record Against Selected Opponents:...

 
8. Igor Reyzlin
Bogdan Nikishin
Bogdan Nikishin
Bohdan Nikishin is a Ukrainian épée fencer.Nikishin won the bronze medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after defeating Hungary in the bronze medal match. He accomplished this with his team mates Dmitriy Karuchenko, Maksym Khvorost and Dmytro Chumak...

 
Vitaliy Medvedev 
Maksym Khvorost
Maksym Khvorost
Maksym Khvorost is a Ukrainian épée fencer.Khvorost won the bronze medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Hungary in the bronze medal match...



Sabre team

8 October - Final
Position Country Name
1. Rares Dumitrescu 
Gelu Florin Zalomir 
Tiberiu Dolniceanu 
Cosmin Hanceanu
2. Aldo Montano 
Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Tarantino
Luigi Tarantino is an Italian fencer and Olympic medalist in the sabre competition. He was the 1998 World Champion for men's sabre.-References:...

 
Diego Occhiuzzi
Diego Occhiuzzi
Diego Occhiuzzi is an Italian fencer and olympic medal winner in team sabre competition.- References :...

 
Giampiero Pastore
Giampiero Pastore
Gianpiero Pastore is an Italian fencer and Olympic medal winner in team sabre competition.- References :...

3. Tamas Decsi 
Nikolasz Iliasz 
Balazs Lontay 
Aron Szilagyi
4. Vardan Kosikov 
Nikolay Kovalev
Nikolay Kovalev (fencer)
Nikolay Anatolyevich Kovalev is a Russian sabre fencer.Kovalev won the bronze medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Hungary in the bronze medal match...

 
Ilia Mokretsov 
Veniamin Reshetnikov
5. Ke Lu Jiang 
Liu Xiao 
Zhong Man
Zhong Man
Zhong Man is a Chinese sabre fencer, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the second ever gold medal for China in fencing.-References:* http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/1774*...


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6. Dmitri Lapkes 
Aliaksei Likhacheuski 
Aliaksandr Buikevich 
Valery Pryiemka
7. Daryl Homer 
Benjamin Igoe 
Timothy Morehouse 
James Williams
James Williams
-In American politics:*James Williams , U.S. Congressman from Delaware*James D. Williams , US Representative from Indiana and governor of Indiana...

8. Boris Sanson
Boris Sanson
Boris Sanson is a French sabre fencer.Sanson won the gold medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships in Turin after beating Spain in the final. He accomplished this with his team mates Vincent Anstett, Julien Pillet and Nicolas Lopez...

 
Julien Pillet
Julien Pillet
Julien Pillet is a French sabre fencer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist as he won the gold in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and also at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
Nicolas Lopez
Nicolas Lopez
Nicolas Lopez is a French sabre fencer.Lopez won the gold medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Ukraine in the final...

 
Vincent Anstett
Vincent Anstett
Vincent Anstett is a French sabre fencer.Anstett won the gold medal in the sabre team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Spain in the final...



Sabre individual

3 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Leigh Zagunis is an American Olympic sabre fencer, of Lithuanian heritage. She won the gold medals in the individual sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is only the second American ever to have won a gold medal in Olympic fencing.-Biography:Zagunis is the...

 
 United States
2. Olga Kharlan
Olga Kharlan
Olga Kharlan is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
 Ukraine
3. Carole Vergne   France
3. Orsolya Nagy
Orsolya Nagy
Orsolya Nagy is a Hungarian fencer who has represented her country at two Summer Olympic Games.- References :...

 
 Hungary
5. Sophia Velikaia   Russia
6. Ekaterina Diatchenko   Russia
7. Olena Khomrova
Olena Khomrova
Olena Khomrova is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 
 Ukraine
8. Bogna Jozwiak   Poland

Foil individual

4 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Aida Shanaeva   Russia
2. Hee-Sook Jeon   South Korea
3. Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo is an Italian foil fencer.-External links:* on fie.ch...

 
 Italy
3. Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca is an Italian foil fencer, she's individual foil world champion, won the gold medal in 2010.-Career:...

 
 Italy
5. Valentina Vezzali
Valentina Vezzali
Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian fencer who has won five Olympic gold medals in foil competitions.-Career:...

 
 Italy
6. Julia Birioukovao   Russia
7. Larisa Korobeinikova   Russia
8. Astrid Guyart   France

Epée individual

5 October - Final
Position Name Country
1. Lubov Shutova   Russia
2. Sherraine Schalm   Canada
3. Anfisa Pochkalova
Anfisa Pochkalova
Anfisa Pochkalova is an Ukrainian fencer .Pochkalova is a student at the Lviv State University of Physical Culture.-Career:...

 
 Ukraine
3. Sonja Tol
Sonja Tol
Sonja Tol is a Dutch épée fencer.Tol represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she reached the second round in which she was eliminated by Ildikó Mincza-Nébald of Hungary 15-7.-External links:*...

 
 Netherlands
5. Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann is a German épée fencer. Heidemann had her biggest success on 13 August during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, when she defeated Ana Maria Brânză to win the gold medal, just minutes after fellow countryman Benjamin Kleibrink won the men's individual foil competition...

 
 Germany
6. Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French épée fencer. She is currently number one on the all-time list of French female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners with five medals, two more than...

 
 France
7. Anqi Xu   People's Republic of China
8. Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk
Danuta Dmowska
Danuta Dmowska is a Polish Fencer and World Épée Champion 2005.Dmowska started fencing when she was ten years old. At first, she fought with foil but at the age of twelve she started training with épée. From 1997 to 2001, Danuta Dmowska attended the XLV Lyceum in Warsaw, Poland.In January, 2005,...

 
 Poland

Sabre team

6 October - Final
Position Country Name
1. Olga Kharlan
Olga Kharlan
Olga Kharlan is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
Olena Khomrova
Olena Khomrova
Olena Khomrova is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 
Olha Zhovnir
Olha Zhovnir
Olha Zhovnir is a Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

 
Halyna Pundyk
Halyna Pundyk
Halyna Vasylivna Pundyk is an Ukrainian fencer and member of the team which won the gold medal in sabre at the 2008 Summer Olympics....

2. Cécilia Berder
Léonore Perrus
Carole Vergne
Mary Solenne 
3. Bao Yingying
Bao Yingying
Bao Yingying is a female Chinese sabre fencer, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-Major performances:*2001 World University Games - 3rd saber individual;*2002 World Junior Championships - 1st saber individual;*2002 Asian Games - 1st saber team;...

 
Li Fei
Ni Hong
Ni Hong
Ni Hong is a female Chinese sabre fencer, who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.-References:*http://2008teamchina.olympic.cn/index.php/personview/personsen/5439...


Chen Xiaodong
4. Svetlana Kormilitsyna
Sophia Velikaia
Ekaterina Diatchenko
Julia Gavrilova
5. Ilaria Bianco
Livia Stagni
Gioia Marzocca
Irene Vecchi
6. Daria Schneider
Monica Aksamit 
Dagmara Wozniak
Dagmara Wozniak
Dagmara Wozniak is a Polish-born American sabre fencer. Wozniak was named to the U.S. Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in women's sabre competition....

 
Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Zagunis
Mariel Leigh Zagunis is an American Olympic sabre fencer, of Lithuanian heritage. She won the gold medals in the individual sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is only the second American ever to have won a gold medal in Olympic fencing.-Biography:Zagunis is the...

7. Bogna Jozwiak
Katarzyna Kedziora
Aleksandra Socha
Aleksandra Socha
Aleksandra Socha Szelagowski is a Polish fencer.Polish Female Sabre Champion for years 1999,2002,2003,2008 and 2010. As a member of Polish Sabre Fencing Team she won medals at the European Championships in 2001 , 2006 , and 2008...


Irena Wieckowska
8. Anna Limbach
Stepahnie Kubissa
Alexandra Bujdoso
Sibylle Klemm


Foil team

7 October - Final
Position Country Name
1. Valentina Vezzali
Valentina Vezzali
Maria Valentina Vezzali is an Italian fencer who has won five Olympic gold medals in foil competitions.-Career:...

 
Margherita Granbassi
Margherita Granbassi
Margherita Granbassi is an Italian foil fencer.Granbassi won the gold medal at the foil 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Valentina Vezzali 7-6 in the final. Later in the tournament she also won a silver in the team's foil event together with her team mates Elisa Di Francisca,...

 
Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo is an Italian foil fencer.-External links:* on fie.ch...

 
Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca
Elisa Di Francisca is an Italian foil fencer, she's individual foil world champion, won the gold medal in 2010.-Career:...

2. Aida Shanaeva 
Larissa Korobeinikova 
Julia Birioukova 
Kamilla Gafurzianova
3. Maria Bartkowski 
Katja Waechter 
Anja schache 
Carolin Golubystskyi
4. Andreea Andrei 
Cristina Stahl 
Cristina Ghita 
Maria Udrea
5. Jinyan Chen 
Huili Dai 
Yun Shi 
Wan Wen Su
6. Hee Sook Jeon 
Gil Ok Jung 
Hyun Hee Nam 
Mi Jung Seo
7. Ambika Singh 
Doris Willette 
Lee Kiefer 
Nzingha Prescod
8. Kateryna Chentsova 
Olena Khismatulina 
Olga Leleyko 
Anastasiya Moskovska


Epée team

8 October - Final
Position Country Name
1. Francesca Quondamcarlo 
Cristiana Cascioli 
Bianca Del Carretto
Nathalie Moellhausen
2. Danuta Dmowska-Andrzejuk
Danuta Dmowska
Danuta Dmowska is a Polish Fencer and World Épée Champion 2005.Dmowska started fencing when she was ten years old. At first, she fought with foil but at the age of twelve she started training with épée. From 1997 to 2001, Danuta Dmowska attended the XLV Lyceum in Warsaw, Poland.In January, 2005,...

 
Malgorzata Bereza
Magdalena Piekarska 
Ewa Nelip
3. Imke Duplitzer
Imke Duplitzer
Imke Duplitzer is a German épée fencer. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the épée competition with her teammates, Britta Heidemann and Claudia Bokel...

 
Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann
Britta Heidemann is a German épée fencer. Heidemann had her biggest success on 13 August during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, when she defeated Ana Maria Brânză to win the gold medal, just minutes after fellow countryman Benjamin Kleibrink won the men's individual foil competition...

 
Marijana Markovic
Marijana Markovic
Marijana Marković is a German épée fencer.Marković won the bronze medal in the épée team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Romania in the bronze medal match. She accomplished this with her team mates Imke Duplitzer, Claudia Bokel and Britta Heidemann.- External links :*...


Monika Sozanska
4. Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic
Laura Flessel-Colovic is a French épée fencer. She is currently number one on the all-time list of French female Winter or Summer Olympic medal winners with five medals, two more than...

 
Maureen Nisima
Maureen Nisima
Maureen Nisima is a French épée fencer, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics alongside Laura Flessel-Colovic, Hajnalka Kiraly Picot and Sarah Daninthe....

 
Hajnalka Kiraly Picot
Hajnalka Kiraly Picot
Hajnalka Kiraly-Picot is a Hungarian-born French épée fencer, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics alongside Laura Flessel-Colovic, Maureen Nisima and Sarah Daninthe....

 
Vanessa Galantine
5. Lubov Shutova 
Tatiana Logounova
Tatiana Logounova
Tatiana Yuryevna Logounova is a Russian épée fencer. She won two gold medals in the team épée event at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...

 
Yana Zvereva 
Olga Kochneva
6. Simona Alexandru 
Ana Branza 
Anca Maroiu 
Iuliana Maceseanu
7. Emese Szász
Emese Szász
Emese Szász is a Hungarian épée fencer.Szász won the bronze medal at the épée 2006 World Fencing Championships after she lost 15-10 to Irina Embrich in the semi final.-Achievements:* 2010 World Fencing Championships, épée...

 
Emese Takacs 
Hajnalka Toth 
Katalin Izso
8. Yulian Cao 
Xiaojuan Luo 
Yujie Sun 
Anqi Xu


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