It is noted that Nikishin in the first stage without problems defeated the Spaniard Alvaro Ivanes.

Already in the next round, our fencer defeated Russian Nikita Glazkov, and in 1/8 of the tournament table, knocked out of the fight one more representative of the Russian Federation Georgy Bruev, having won the opponent with a minimum advantage in the account - 13:12.

After - in the battle for getting into the semifinals - Nikishin was stronger than the Italian Gabriel Cimini with a score of 15:12. In a duel for the ticket to the final, he won a victory over the Olympic champion Rio de Janeiro in the team championship Yannik Borel, finishing the meeting with the score 15:11.

By the way, Nikishin first defeated Borel at the international tournament, which is held under the aegis of FIE.

We add that for the Ukrainian this gold of the World Cup was the first in this season. Before that he could not rise above the second place - in Bern and Heidenheim, our fencer took silver.

As previously reported, "URA-Inform", in the Olympic town in Pyeongchang, volunteers caught a Latvian citizen who tried to steal hockey equipment. A curious case occurred during the match of the Finnish women's national hockey team, to which the man purchased a ticket.