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[Asian Games] Korea captures gold in women's sabre fencing team event

Korea struck gold in the women's sabre fencing team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Sunday, delivering the country's fourth fencing title on the sport's last day here. The team of Choi Se-bin, Jeon Ha-young, Seo Ji-yeon and Kim Jeong-mi took down Japan's Misaki Emura, Yui Sano, Yuina Kaneko and Seri Ozaki by 45-31 at Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, south of the main host city, Nagoya. None…

[Asian Games] Korea captures gold in women's sabre fencing team event

Korea won the women's sabre fencing team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, defeating Japan 45-31. The Korean team consisted of Choi Se-bin, Jeon Ha-young, Seo Ji-yeon, and Kim Jeong-mi. According to The Korea Times, none of the Korean fencers had won an individual medal earlier in the competition.

In the men's epee fencing team event, Korea settled for silver, losing to Kazakhstan 43-42. The Korean team comprised Park Sang-young, Jang Hyo-min, Nam Yeon-ho, and substitute Kwon O-min. This was Korea's 12th consecutive men's epee team medal.

The Hong Kong, China women's sabre team, consisting of Summer Sit, Lau Yee-ching, Laren Leung, and Chu Wing-kiu, lost to South Korea 28-45 in the quarterfinals, as reported by RTHK English.

Brief written by urgent.news from The Korea Times, RTHK English, The Korea Times, New Straits Times — 4 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

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