New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): The third day of the twenty sixth Asian Senior Fencing Championships in New Delhi witnessed a number of upsets and intense contests as the person occasions concluded at Bharat Mandapam on Sunday. Serving as a key qualifier for the upcoming Asian Games and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, the competitors noticed Japan proceed its robust run by Kyosuke Matsuyama’s males’s foil gold, whereas Irina Bakaldina made historical past by securing Kazakhstan’s first-ever particular person girls’s epee title on the championships, in line with a press launch.
The younger Indian contingent delivered promising performances on residence pitches. In the Women’s Epee, Prachi Lohan led the native cost with a Twenty second-place end, adopted carefully by rising star Taniksha Khatri in twenty ninth. Mitva Jesangbhai Chaudhari completed thirty fifth, and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer took forty third. On the Men’s Foil facet, Sachin Sachin paced the house squad in twenty fifth place, whereas Sanasam Hemash Singh completed thirty seventh, Tejas Manoj Patil took forty seventh, and Aditya Aditya completed 57th.
The day turned a graveyard for match favourites. In Men’s Foil, Hong Kong’s reigning back-to-back Olympic gold medalist Cheung Ka Long was shocked within the quarterfinals by South Korea’s Im Cheolwoo, leaving Cheung in sixth place total. Defending Asian champion Choi Chun Yin Ryan of Hong Kong was additionally knocked out within the quarterfinals, falling to Japan’s Kyosuke Matsuyama to complete fifth. In the Women’s Epee bracket, South Korea’s defending champion Song Se-ra was stopped within the semifinals by Kazakhstan’s Irina Bakaldina, forcing her to accept bronze.
The finals delivered unimaginable depth. In Men’s Foil, Japan confirmed its power as teammates Kyosuke Matsuyama and Kazuki Iimura fought in an all-Japanese closing. Matsuyama gained the match to take Gold, leaving Iimura with Silver, whereas South Korea’s Im Cheolwoo and Jeonghyun Youn shared the bronze.
In Women’s Epee, Irina Bakaldina clinched a historic first-ever particular person girls’s epee gold for Kazakhstan by defeating Hong Kong’s Kaylin Sin Yan Hsieh in a fierce closing. Hsieh took residence the silver, whereas Tamaki Terayama of Japan and South Korea’s Song Se-ra shared the bronze.
With these outcomes, Japan holds the championship lead with 3 gold medals from the primary 4 occasions. These closing particular person standings now arrange the brackets and psychological momentum for the extremely anticipated staff occasions beginning tomorrow. (ANI)