CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Fencing rising senior Elizabeth Tartakovsky and assistant coach Eli Dershwitz '19 recently finished competition with Team USA at the 2022 World Championships in Cairo, Egypt.
 
Tartakovsky, the 2022 NCAA champion in women's saber, placed 73^rd in a field that consisted of 133 competitors. In the women's saber team competition, Tartakovsky joined forces with Honor Johnson, Tatiana Nazlymov and Anne-Elizabeth Stone. The No. 5-seed defeated Iran (45-35) and Canada (45-24) before falling to fourth-seeded Japan in the quarterfinals, 45-33.
 
Dershwitz, meanwhile, finished in 19^th place in men's saber and was part of an American foursome that came in 10^th in the team event. The two-time Olympian was joined by Daryl Homer, Andrew Mackiewicz and Kamar Skeete. As a group, the 5-seed took down Singapore (45-20) but could not overcome China (45-38) in the Round of 16.
 
The duo last season helped the Crimson to a second-place performance at the 2022 NCAA Championships. Harvard's runner-up performance was its second-best finish in program history and along the way, the Crimson had 11 athletes earn All-America honors.