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Fourth place for Air Force captain

By Karen Small on August 1, 2012 Air Force, Olympics

Seth Kelsey, the Air Force captain competing in his third Olympic Games, lost in overtime in the bronze medal match of men’s individual epee event. The score was 11-12, according to the London 2012 website. Kelsey lost to South Korean Jinsun Jung on Wednesday after a string of victories, including one over No. 1-seeded Nikolai Novosjolov of Estonia. In the bronze medal bout, Kelsey battled back to tie the match at 11, and then made a bold choice, according to The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Colo. “I’ve always been disappointed in my previous Olympic performances,” Kelsey said. “Today, I beat…

Kelsey to compete for Bronze

By Karen Small on August 1, 2012 Air Force, Olympics

Air Force Capt. Seth Kelsey lost his men’s epee semifinal match to Ruben Gascon of Venezuela, 5-6. Kelsey will compete for the Bronze medal later today against the loser of the semifinal match between Jinsun Jung of South Korea and Bartosz Piasecki of Norway, The Associated Press reports. According to The Washington Post, “Kelsey was crestfallen Wednesday after he lost in sudden death.” It was the lowest-scoring match of the Olympics thus far.

Air Force captain in fencing semifinals

By Karen Small on August 1, 2012 Air Force, Navy, Olympics, Uncategorized

Air Force Capt. Seth Kelsey reached the men’s epee semifinals at the Olympics in London today, the Associated Press reports. Kelsey is competing in his third Olympic Games. He was ousted quickly from the Athens Games in 2004 and the Beijing Games in 2008, but won his first-round bout today over China’s Li Guojie 8-7, AP reports. He then scored a huge upset by beating No. 1 seed and former world champion Nikolai Novosjolov of Estonia 15-11 in the round of 16. That put the 17th-seeded Kelsey into the quarterfinals, where he downed Venezuela’s Silvio Fernandez 15-9. The men’s epee…

An elite fencing force

By Tom Spoth on January 28, 2010 Air Force

En garde! The Air Force is thrusting and parrying its way to the top of the U.S. Fencing Association’s national rankings. Not only is 2003 Academy grad Seth Kelsey the top men’s epee fencer in the nation, but three current cadets are in the top 60: senior Peter French (#5), junior Daniel Trapani (#47) and sophomore Ben Rinaldi (#57). Kelsey, now a reservist, has competed in the last two Summer Olympics. In women’s epee, sophomore Simone Barrette is tied for 21st in senior women’s epee and is also ranked 17th in junior women’s epee. Freshman Heather Nelson currently is ranked…

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