S. Korea blows big lead to settle for silver in men's epee fencing team event
South Korea squandered a big lead and settled for silver in the men's epee fencing team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Sunday. The team of Park Sang-young, Jang Hyo-min, Nam Yeon-ho and substitute Kwon O-min lost to Kazakhstan's Kirill Prokhodov, Ruslan Kurbanov, Vadim Sharlaimov and Yerlik Sertay by 43-42 at Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, south of the main host city, Nagoya. None of the…
South Korea s men s epee fencing team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games ended with a silver medal, despite initially leading. The team comprised Park Sang-young, Jang Hyo-min, Nam Yeon-ho and Kwon O-min. They faced Kazakhstan s Kirill Prokhodov, Ruslan Kurbanov, Vadim Sharlaimov and Yerlik Sertay in Tokoname, near Nagoya. Despite Park and Prokhodov tying at three points each in the first bout, the South Korean team gained an early lead in the subsequent matches.
Nam Yeon-ho extended the lead to 12-9 after defeating Sharlaimov. However, Park Sang-young's later performance cost them the gold, as he fell short of securing a decisive victory, resulting in their defeat by a narrow margin of 43-42.
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