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| Silver medal at the Asian Fencing Championships for the South Korean men's sabre team. Photo Source =FIE |
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The South Korean men's fencing sabre team won a silver medal at the Asian Fencing Championships.
The men's sabre team consisting of Do Kyung-dong (37th in the world, Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), Park Sang-won (5th in the world), Lim Jae-yoon (66th in the world, Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall) and Ha Ha-sol (27th in the world, Seongnam City Hall) lost 41 to 45 in the final of the men's sabre team event at the 2025 Asian Championships in Bali, Indonesia, on the 20th.
1 Bout Do Kyung-dong fell to 3-5 in the showdown between 'Japanese Veteran' Yoshida (47th in the world), but 2 Bout Lim Jae-yoon scored 7 points against '22 Japanese Top Ranker' and Kokubo (29th in the world) who won the individual bronze medal in the competition, succeeding in a 10-8 turnaround.
3 Bout Park Sang-won led 5-3 against Tsumori (39th in the world), widening the score gap to 15-11. Four-bout Lim Jae-yoon poked Yoshida and each other five times, maintaining a 20-16 and four-point advantage. It was Korea's advantage up to this point.
However, after 5 bouts, Japan's pursuit was fierce. In the 5th bout, Do Kyung-dong was stabbed by Tsumori for 9 points, allowing a 23-25 upset, and Park Sang-won, 6th bout, fell to 4-5 against Kokubo, 27-30. 7th bout Lim Jae-yoon led Tsumori 6-5 to chase 35-33, but the score gap widened to 35-40 in the 8th bout Park Sang-won and Yoshida match, and the last 9th bout Do Kyung-dong made a fierce chase against Kokubo, but his opponent stabbed 5 points first and lost 41-45. As soon as he confirmed the championship point '22 years old college student player'Kokovo cheered enthusiastically with his colleagues as if he had all the world.
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| The Japanese men's sabre team is delighted after winning the championship after beating Korea. Photo Source =FIE |
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| Kokubo cheers after securing a 45-41 winning point. Photo Source =FIE |
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The men's sabre team, which has won three consecutive men's team events since the 2012 London Olympics and last year's Paris Olympics, and four consecutive Asian championships until last year, was hit by Japan. 'The Avengers' ace, Koo Bon-gil, and Oh Sang-wook briefly put down the national flag after the Paris Olympics, and this competition was played by Do Kyung-dong and Park Sang-won, who were active at the Paris Olympics. Do Kyung-dong won his first career gold medal in the men's individual competition and expected to win two gold medals in the team competition, but failed to achieve his goal due to Japan's momentum. The men's sabre team passed the round of 32 with a bye, beat the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 45-23 in the round of 16, India 45-27 in the quarterfinals, and Hong Kong 45-33 in the semifinals, but failed to overcome the crisis of the last Korea-Japan match. Japan continued its momentum in the final by beating Uzbekistan, which beat China in the semifinals, 45-44, by one point.
South Korea's men's sabre ranks first in the group rankings of the International Fencing Federation, Iran is fifth in Asia, and Japan is 10th. It is a painful result to give Japan supremacy at the Asian Championships without the two-time winner of the Paris Olympics and Oh Sang-wook, who is ranked No. 1 in the world. Gold medals are harder to keep than to win. This is a result that needs to be supplemented ahead of the Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya, which will be held in Japan next year.
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| Men's sabre team event at the Bali Asian Championships in Japan. Photo Source =FIE |
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| Women's foil team event at the Asian Championships in Bali, Japan. Photo Source =FIE |
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Japan won the gold medal in the women's foil individual gold, silver, and bronze (Ueno Yuka gold, Tsuji Sumire silver, Kiguchi Komaki) and women's sabre individual gold medals, sweeping the men's sabre and women's foil team gold medals at the same time. He won two bronze medals in the men's sabre individual event (Strits Kaito, Kokubo Mao) and silver in the men's epee individual event (Masaru Yamada), ranking podium in all events except women's epee and men's foil. South Korea has two gold medals (Men's Sabre Do Kyung-dong, Women's Epee Song Sera), one silver (Men's Sabre Team), and two bronze medals (Women's Sabre Jungmi Kim, Men's Fleure Yoon Jeong-hyun).
Meanwhile, Hong Se-na, Mo-byeol (Jung-gu Office, Incheon Metropolitan City), Park Ji-hee (Seoul Metropolitan Government), and Lee Se-joo (Chungbuk Provincial Government) finished fifth in the women's foil team event.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
