MILAN, July 30 (Xinhua) — China took a stunning silver within the males’s foil workforce after dropping to Japan 45-35, because the 2023 Fencing World Championships concluded right here on Sunday.
China’s males’s workforce, composed of Cheng Haiwei, Mo Ziwei, Xu Jie and Wu Bin, overcame a 10-5 deficit within the opening bouts to beat powerhouses France 45-38, earlier than encountering world No. 1 United States within the semifinal.
China confirmed no mercy from the very starting as they led all the way in which to a snug 45-35 win over final yr’s runners-up, cruising into the lads’s foil workforce remaining on the World Championships for the primary time since 2010 in Paris.
Mo made a shocking 5-0 begin within the remaining, however newly-crowned Asian Championship winners Japan bounced again and took the lead within the third bout. China fought laborious to shut the hole however needed to accept a silver, making the rostrum once more following a bronze in Moscow in 2015.
“The World Championships is the most important competition of the year and the performance of the men’s foil team today gives us hope,” mentioned Wang Haibin, president of the Chinese Fencing Association. “Hopefully it can boost our morale.”
“But judging from the final, we still have a lot to work on,” he added.
Besides a workforce silver within the males’s foil, Tokyo Olympic champion Sun Yiwen claimed a bronze medal within the girls’s epee particular person however solely led China to a Twelfth-place end within the workforce occasion.
Coming off a bronze on the Asian Championships in Wuxi final month, China’s girls’s epee workforce nonetheless have an extended technique to go to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Our team didn’t move on from the defeat in Wuxi. It is all a process. We will keep going until the last [qualifier] and try our best to qualify for Paris,” Wang famous.