World's No. 1 Song Sera Buntu 女 Epee Defeated X Team No Gold Shock Gold 2, and 3rd overall after Japan and China
Jun 22, 2025
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The Korean women's epee team consisting of Song Se-ra (Busan Metropolitan City Hall), Lee Hye-in (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall, 34th) and Lim Tae-hee (Gyeryong City Hall, 41st) and Kim Hyang-eun (Jeonnam Provincial Government, 110th) lost to China 38-41 in the final match of the 2025 Asian Fencing Championship in Bali, Indonesia, on the afternoon of the 22nd (Korea time).
Song Se-ra had been aiming for two gold medals in the team event following the individual title. After last year's Paris Olympics, Kang Young-mi and Choi In-jeong left the national team, and Lim Tae-hee and Kim Hyang-eun went to the top of Asia with the national flag, but they failed to achieve their goal. The women's epee team event is an event in which South Korea has won four consecutive games since 2021 until last year.
South Korea advanced to the finals by beating India 45-28 in the quarterfinals and Japan 45-27 in the semifinals. With the men's and women's sabres losing in the final piste of the Korea-Japan match and both winning silver medals, they were aiming for the first gold medal in the team event on the last day of the competition. 1 Bout Song Sera led 2-1 after a search match with Yang Jingwen (133rd in the world), and 2 Bout Kim Hyang-eun fell behind Chinese top ranker Yu Si-han (2nd in the world) by 2-4.
3 Bout Lim Tae-hee balanced 5-5 with aggressive handwork against Tang Jun-Yao (40th in the world). After a tight game, 3-3, 7-8 still passed the sword to Kim Hyang-eun, a four-bout, by one point. Kim Hyang-eun fought hard against Yang Jing-wen, but fell behind 3-5, making it 10-13 and the score gap widened to 3 points.
Song Se-ra, a five-bout top-ranked player, went on a piste. He showed his fighting spirit with his injury, but was pushed back by Tang Jun-Yao's strong challenge. 12-18, six points behind. 6 Bout '23 years old'Im Tae-hee fought off Yu Si-han with spirit, drawing the spark of the chase, but lost 5-6, widening the 17-24 margin.
7 Bout Kim Hyang-eun led Tang Jun-yao 5-3 and 22-27, 8 Bout Lim Tae-hee handed over the last knife handle of 9 Bout to Song Se-ra at 6-6. 28-33 after a match between Yang Jing-wen and Iljin. Song Cera and Yoo Si-han's showdown as top rankers between Korea and China, and Song Cera's last-minute struggle shone. He succeeded in stabbing three times in a row, chasing by 30-33, three points, and chasing by 32-34 with 45 seconds left in the leg stabbing. With 15 seconds left, he was writing a drama that turned around with a balance of 36-36, but he was in a hurry and the time was short. In the end, the team lost 38-41, with a three-point lead.
Fencing Korea recorded no gold for the first time in the team event. South Korea was also behind China, losing the gold medal in the women's epee at the end of the tournament to China. Two gold medals (men's sabre dokyeong-dong, women's epee sonsera), three silver medals (women's sabre team, men's sabre team, women's epee team), and two bronze medals (women's sabre Jungmi Kim, men's epee team), falling to third place overall after Japan and China (gold 2, silver 5, bronze 4). Japan swept the gold medal in five of the six team events, excluding the women's epee, up to the gold medal in the men's foil team event. She swept seven gold medals, two silver medals, and three bronze medals to rank No. 1 overall.
Fencing Korea lost 12 consecutive Asian championships until 2022 and lost the overall title to Japan for the first time in 2023, and regained the top place with gold 4, silver 2, and bronze 5 last year ahead of the Paris Olympics, but lost the team event due to Japan's fierce momentum this year and gave up the top again in a year. In the overall ranking, he ranked third, the worst since 2009, falling behind China, which won two gold medals side by side. It predicted a fiery Korea-China-Japan piste at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan next year.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
