Olympic qualification for fencer Bas Verwijlen!

Bas Verwijlen is very happy to tell everyone that he qualified for his second Olympics. Due to his silver medal at the European Championships and his silver medal at the World championships. He was pretty sure of competing in the 2012 London Olympics for the worldwide governing organization for Olympic fencing, but not for the Dutch committee.

For the Dutch Olympic Committee he had achieve a top-8 result in 2011 and one top-16 in 2012 all at a pre-selected competition. In 2011 he had a top-8 result at the Tallinn worldcup (3th place) and in 2012 he finished 3th in the Qatar Grand Prix. 

After returning home some people told him that he could be the new #1 on the world ranking list. He waited until monday and saw the updated ranking……it was true! He is very proud to be the first Dutch fencer ever to be ranked #1 on the world ranking list for some weeks.

Unfortunately it was just for a few weeks.
The Italian Worldchampion Paolo Pizzo catched up on him because of his good result at the 2012 Tallinn worldcup. Next weekend is the worldcup in Paris. This will be the last olympic qualification moment and will be very exited and stressful for some fencers.

A. (The Dutch Sportaholic)