HANGZHOU, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — China and South Korea met in each finals on the fencing piste on the Hangzhou Asian Games on Thursday, with the hosts clinching the ladies’s foil workforce title and South Korea taking their third consecutive males’s sabre workforce gold.
Led by Hangzhou Asiad particular person gold medalist Huang Qianqian, China upset world No. 4 Japan 45-29 in dramatic fashion to arrange a repeat of Incheon 2014 closing towards South Korea.
Both groups took a really cautious method on this tight closing, with the largest hole being simply two factors till the eighth spherical when the reigning Asian Championships gold medalist, Chen Qingyuan, took on South Korea’s Hong Se-na.
“I was a bit stiff in the beginning. But then I realized that Hong was the more impatient one, and I was able to catch her wide open,” Chen recalled on the spherical the place she outscored 9-2 to offer China a five-point lead. “I wanted to build up an advantage for my teammate before the final round.”
Huang went up final and held her nerves to clinch China’s first ladies’s foil workforce gold because the 1994 version in Hiroshima with a 34-31 victory over the five-time champions.
“I’m super excited and super honored to be able to win gold at home,” Chen added.
As an absolute powerhouse in males’s sabre, Olympic champions and world No. 1 South Korea cruised into the ultimate with none troubles, whereas China overcame Iran within the semifinal because of Yan Yinghui’s gorgeous efficiency.
South Korea took the initiative from the very starting to beat China 45-33. Gu Bon-gil has thus earned his sixth Asiad gold, tying with 5 different South Korean athletes with probably the most Asian Games golds.
The 34-year-old received three particular person golds in 2010, 2014 and 2018, together with three workforce golds from 2014 to 2023.
“I feel a bit sorry to the young fencers. But after winning gold today, I became more eager to win the most Asian Games golds,” mentioned Gu. “I’ll keep working hard for Nagoya (in 2026).”