Sera Song of the national fencing team won the world championship epee event for the first time in 20 years as a Korean female athlete.
Sera Song won the gold medal by defeating Germany’s Alexandra N’Dolo 11-10 in the women’s epee final at the Fencing World Championships held in Cairo, Egypt on the 19th.
With this, Sera Song became the second player to win a gold medal in the epee event at the World Championships in Korean fencing for the first time in 20 years and for the second time in history following Hyun-hee in 2002.
In all sports, Sera Song became the second Korean female fencer to win the individual event at the World Championships following Hyun Hee.
Sera Song, a member of the silver medal in the Korean women’s épée team event at the Tokyo Olympics last year, has been doing well in individual competitions on the international stage, including a gold medal at the Barcelona World Cup in February this year and a bronze medal at the Cairo International Grand Prix.
Meanwhile, in the men’s saber individual event, Oh Sang-wook, who tried to win the championship for the second time in a row following the previous 2019 competition, lost 15-14 to Iulian Theodosio of Romania in the quarterfinals and failed to advance to the quarterfinals.
[사진 출처 : 연합뉴스 / 국제펜싱연맹 트위터 캡처]
