South Korea win third consecutive men's sabre team goldpublished at 21:36 31 July 2024
21:36 31 July 2024
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South Korea won their third consecutive men's Olympic sabre team gold by beating Hungary 45-41 at the Grand Palais.
The four-time world champions sought revenge on Hungary, who got the better of them at the 2023 World Championships to claim a title long held by South Korea.
Cheung retains title to win Hong Kong's fourth Olympic goldpublished at 21:44 29 July 2024
21:44 29 July 2024
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Hong Kong's Cheung Ka Long beat Italy's Filippo Macchi 15-14 to retain his Olympic individual foil title.
Cheung's success means he has now won two of Hong Kong's four gold medals in the history of the Games.
Former world number one Nick Itkin of the United States of America beat Japan's Kazuki IImura to take bronze.
In the women's events, France's Manon Apithy-Brunet beat her compatriot Sara Balzer 15-12 to win individual sabre gold.
Apithy-Brunet became the first Frenchwoman to win an Olympic medal in that event when she clinched bronze at Tokyo 2020, and now has three Olympic medals to her name.
Ukraine's four-time world champion Olga Kharlan took bronze.
Ukraine's Kharlan wins sabre bronzepublished at 20:39 29 July 2024
20:39 29 July 2024
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Ukraine's four-time world champion Olga Kharlan has beaten South Korea's Sebin Choi to win bronze in the women's sabre individual.
It is her fifth Olympic medal, following team gold and silver in 2008 and 2012 respectively, plus individual bronzes in 2012 and 2016.
But Kharlan very nearly didn't compete in Paris.
She was front page news after she was disqualified from the World Championships in 2023 for offering to tap blades instead of shaking hands with Russia’s Anna Smirnova. After a backlash, the International Fencing Federation reinstated her which allowed her to take part in the team competition.
IOC president Thomas Bach (a former fencer), wrote her a letter saying he would "allocate an additional quota place" to her if she could not qualify because of her "unique situation".