Budapest 2026 World Cup Final – Men’s Ep ee A – Piers Gilliver vs. Chen Liqiang | Wheelchair Fencing

he had more time to recover after his match against Yusupov and so the match of Gulliver so let's see if he took any advantage of this situation two right-handed fencers both of them are able to go very far in distance and you can see that which is a trademark of Pierce Gulliver inspires the others and change is imitating I don't know if it's really on purpose but we may see both of them jiggling a lot on this final match match for gold oh lucky lucky Pierce and Leo Bonneville the referee confirmed that this touch was out of the range out of the target so it will not count and I said that Pierce was pretty lucky on this one because he was absolutely I would say lost in his action and fortunately for him he lighted so this situation impeached Chen to light after that well for the moment 2-1 for the British oh good stop here from Chen everything is set we are able to start match 3-0 oh yes good paradre pause here from Pierce it was a very heavy one it hurts a little bit Chen here on the chest Chen is doing his comeback and the last time he fighted against Pierce Gulliver was during the world championships in Iksan last year and Chen won at the time in quarter final 14-13 but today even if the match is pretty close Pierce Gulliver is leading and seems to be acting as the boss on the piste well it's really impressive to see all these movements to see how both of them are acting moving very quickly pretending to make an action in attack and waiting a moment a second intention action to give a quick movement with the with the tip oh yes it was very close just at the millimeter that it was done and managed by Pierce Gulliver leading now 7-4 and this repose in the backs allows Pierce Gulliver to turn with the lead in this first period 8-4 that's a lot and Chen Dickian will have a hard job to come back Pierce Gulliver is number three at the ranking while I you remember that Chen was much further 32nd position at the international ranking Pierce Gulliver who was second at the last world cup in Italy in Pisa only finished seventh at the world championships in Iksan when Chen was six so the Paralympic champion and the European champion will have to continue on his way after this good start how to reset a fencing frame on the piste with two volunteers and one strong fencer and a good coordination second period in this gold medal match for men's hepe category and even if Chen Dickian did most of the job Pierce Gulliver was able to catch the ball yes here Chen was fast enough to avoid the double very well done but this kind of touch I can tell you needs a lot of energy you won't be able to had nine like this one and for sure the adaptation we've been talking about will be used by Pierce to change something in case of emergency something has moved so that's why we have a out from the referee it seems that the fencers are getting tired now it's not that easy to reach the opponent as it was at the beginning of the game and both of them are not risking that much offensive movements far away but sometimes after good preparation you can do it as change just did it here 9-7 still a lead for Pierce Gulliver but the touches are less easy the reports are less efficient and Chen is getting a bit disappointed and tired his scratch is also a little bit tired it's it's going off all the time for his neck protection oh yes a pushy touch here well done and now we can see that after a small break Pierce Gulliver is coming back with a fast actions oh yeah what a stop here that's really hard to do because you are doing the maximum physically and you have to stop your movement hoping your opponent will find your tip in his movement well that was close for Chen but the second attempt of Gulliver is the good one small stop to get dressed again 14-8 Pierce Gulliver has led this match from the beginning till the end this touch is just a respite for Chen still far at the score both of them look exhausted but one of them is that one to touch to the gold and in two times he did it the last touch for Pierce Gulliver gold medalist here in Budapest of this men's epic category a tournament