[Fencing]The male flower group lost to Egypt and moved to the 7th place, Zhang Jialang won the championship and the portrait was hung on the field

[Sports Road News]The Hong Kong team, which is currently playing in the Men’s Foil World Cup Paris Station in France, lost to Egypt at 36:45 in the 5-8 place tonight (16th), and will compete with South Korea for the seventh place later. name. The conference also held the handover ceremony of the individual competition trophy tonight. Zhang Jialang, who won the championship yesterday, took over the trophy from the previous champion. The conference hung his champion portrait on the field, tied with the previous champions.

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The Men’s Flower Port team is composed of Zhang Xiaolun, Cai Junyan, Wu Nuohong and individual champion Zhang Jialang. Today, they beat Brazil in the top 16.Lost to Italy 24:45 in the quarterfinals, fell into the 5-8 place. The Hong Kong team first played once morest Egypt in the ranking match. The two teams played once morest each other in the 7th place match at the Tokyo Olympics last year. At that time, the Hong Kong team won 45-21. This time they met once more. The two teams played tightly. With the first three games leading each other, the Hong Kong team played 5:0 in the fourth game, but the next three games were 5:6, 2:10 and 1:5 respectively. Egypt took the lead in one fell swoop and pulled away, and finally lost 36:45.

The Hong Kong team will compete once morest South Korea in the 7th-8th place. The match was originally scheduled to start at 11:30 pm Hong Kong time on Sunday. However, the previous match was overtime and is expected to be delayed, and there is no online live broadcast.

Photos of past champions hang on the field (Credit: FIE)

In addition, the conference also held the handover ceremony of the individual competition trophy tonight. The new champion Zhang Jialang took over the trophy from the previous champion, Nick Itkin of the United States. At the same time, the conference will replace the portraits of the previous champions hanging on the field, and hang Zhang Jialang’s “cup portrait” in the center.

Zhang Jialang receives the trophy from last-time champion Nick Itkin (Credit: FIE)

Portraits of previous champions hung on the field, with Zhang Jialang’s photo in the center (Credit: FIE)

Credit: FIE

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