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Korean Women’s Fencing Foil Blocked by China

28 october 2023

Korean Women’s Fencing Foil Blocked by China

[Asian Games] Korean Women’s Fencing Foil Blocked by China, Wins Silver Medal in Team Event



Korea, which won three gold medals in two days of team competition, confirmed its fourth consecutive overall win in AG fencing

The Korean women's fencing team won a silver medal in the team event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.  온라인카지노사이트

Korea, featuring Hong Sena (Ansan City Hall), Hong Hyo-jin (Seongnam City Hall), Chae Song-oh (Chungbuk Provincial Office), and Hong Seo-in (Seoul City Hall), defeated China in the team finals of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Hangzhou University of Electronics Gymnasium in China on the 28th. They lost 31-34 and took second place.

Korea, which won 5 consecutive wins in the women's foil team event at the Asian Games from the 1998 Bangkok Games to the 2014 Incheon Games, came in 3rd place at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games and won a silver medal in this tournament after failing to win for the 6th time in a row.

The women's foil national team has not been able to achieve outstanding results in major competitions since the retirement of Nam Hyun-hee and Jeon Hee-sook, who played the role of 'double horse', and Hong Se-na's bronze medal was the only runner-up in the individual competition in this competition, but as a team, they advanced to the finals for the first time in 9 years and won a silver medal. brought about

The women's foil national team, which defeated Macau 45-10 in the quarterfinals and Hong Kong 45-25 in the semifinals, had a close match with the home team China in the finals.

In the first round, Hong Sena gave up a point to Huang Qianqian, but in the second round, Cai Songwu tied the score 6-6 against Wang Yuting.

The balance of 8-8 continued after the third round between Hong Hyo-jin and Chen Qingyuan, and Hong Sena, the only individual medalist (bronze medal) of this tournament in both men's and women's foil, finished the fourth round with Wang Yuting at 10-10.

She then continued the tight streak, winning 12-12 in the 5th round and 15-15 in the 6th round.

In the 7th round, Hong Hyo-jin again took the lead over Wang Yu-ting, taking the lead at 19-17, and then a see-saw game continued, but Hong Sena was pushed back 21-26 in the 8th round against Chen Qingyuan, and the final match between Cai Song-oh and Huang Chen-chen I couldn't overcome it in the end.

Korea, which added a gold medal in the men's saber and a silver medal in the women's foil on the second day of the team competition, took six out of the total 12 gold medals in the men's and women's epee, saber, and foil individual and team competitions, and added three silver medals and one bronze medal to win the overall championship in the fencing event. confirmed.

She won three gold medals in men's saber (Oh Sang-wook), women's saber (Yoon Ji-su), and women's epee (Choi In-jeong), and also won the women's epee, men's foil, and men's saber team events.

This competition leaves the men's epee and women's saber team competitions on the 30th.