You can play Fleur! Oh Ha-na, coach of the national team, missed the medal at home, and Choi Shin-won, president of the Fencing Association, cheering for the first row
Ohana Women's Fleure national team coach and national team players are shouting fighting at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) SK Telecom Busan Women's Fleure World Cup site.
Choi Shin-won, president of the Korea Fencing Association, visits the Busan Spoone Park Geumjeong Indoor Gymnasium where the International Fencing Federation (FIE) SK Telecom Busan Women's Fleure World Cup is being held on the 6th to encourage women's foil athletes and leaders of the Korean national fencing team.
'Women's foil golden generation' Ohana, coach of the women's fencing team, coolly pointed out the reality, future and hope of women's fencing at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Busan SK Telecom Women's foil World Cup site.
A total of 193 aces from 30 countries, including top rankers such as the 2025 SK Telecom Women's Fleure World Cup site, world No. 1 Lee Keeper (US), world No. 2 Martina Fabaretto (Italy), and No. 3 Eleanor Harvey (Canada), participated in the event, with 34 athletes including Shim So-eun (79th in the world), Park Ji-hee (46th in the world, Seoul Metropolitan Government), Mo Byul-i (56th in the world, Incheon Metropolitan City Jung-gu Office), and Kim Ho-yeon (140th in the world, Gangwon Province) participating.
But the walls of the world were high. Seven out of 34 players made the round of 64 in the individual match held from the 5th to the 6th, and only two players, Park Ji-hee and Shim So-eun, survived the round of 32. Shim So-eun was eliminated in the round of 32 with a 6-15 loss to Japanese top ranker Yuka Ueno (world fifth). Park Ji-hee, who survived alone, faced Martina Batini (36), a veteran player. In the round of 64, Kim Ki-yeon (Seongnam City Hall) lost 14-15, and the first 5-0 and 8-1 with an aggressive offensive against the top ranker, who lost by a clean margin… He led the way to a 10-3 lead and gained the upper hand. But one head, bigger overwhelmed physical, longer-limbed Tokyo Olympic team bronze medallist 'Veteran Top Ranker'Battini pressed hard, chasing 10-8. Park Ji-hee widened the gap again to 12-8 with a simple and bold attack, but the afterthought was disappointing. Batini, a one-up player in the number of games, made a 14-14 gear nose tie and finally roared with the last shot. 14-15, a painful one-point upset. Park Ji-hee, who missed the victory in front of her, wiped away her tears. Ohana, the coach of the national team and a team player who led the "Golden Age of Women's Fleure", also swallowed the anger.
The foil event is the first gold medal ever won by Kim Young-ho (director of the Korea Sports Council) at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and is the pride of Korean fencing. Women's foil is a representative sport of fencing Korea, which won five consecutive team competitions after the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, with Nam Hyun-hee, Jeon Hee-sook, Jung Gil-ok and Oh Ha-na collaborating for the bronze medal in the team event at the 2012 London Olympics. However, after a series of retirements by the seniors of 'Walkle' came a sharp crisis. Women's sabre and women's epee won medals in succession at the Olympics and World Championships along with successful generational changes, while women's foil was sluggish. The Korea Fencing Association and SK Telecom have been supporting young Korean athletes by hosting the Busan Grand Prix and World Cup events every year under the banner of 「Fleur Renaissance」, but the change in the field is still slow.
Choi Shin-won, president of the Korea Fencing Association, who visited the Busan Women's Fleure World Cup site, is shaking hands with Ohana Women's Fleure coach.
Choi Shin-won, president of the Korea Fencing Association, who has consistently cheered for the players in the first row of all competitions, including the Olympics, Asian Games, World Championships, and SK Grand Prix, appeared at the site for the first time in a long time. With no Korean players in the piste after the round of 16, top rankers from the United States, Italy and Japan dominated the piste. After encouraging the players one by one with a welcome look on his face, Choi called coach Ohana to deliver a warm message.
Coach Oh said, `The president said in a playful tone, 'How can you lose like this?' The U.S. players weren't this good in women's foil, but they're really good now. Scientific and meticulous training and hard work together are the results. He said, 'We should work harder like the U.S. toward the LA Olympics.'" Can the president do '? You don't have it?' You can do it because you're asking!replied '", and tipped off his appointment with 'Chairman".
Women's foil national team coach Shim So-eun and Ohana national team coach
Ohana Women's Fleure national team coach.
As a female foil senior who once commanded the world, it was natural to miss the medal at home. It was also a sense of responsibility as a senior that he decided to become a national team leader who shares the same hometown with his juniors after considering after marriage. "After retiring from the national team, I didn't feel it from a distance, but as I coached with the players in person, it is heartbreaking to see my juniors shrink as a senior who had a golden age. They are players who can do better than enough 'Fleur, it's hardThere are a lot of stories about ', so there are some areas where the players lower themselves. I and the players still have a lot of deficiencies, but I believe they will get better and better."
Coach Oh said of Park Ji-hee's clean-up defeat, `Bartini is a very experienced and experienced player. I didn't think I would go that far in the beginning. "I think I would have won enough if I had been more experienced and confident in the match, but at some point, I focused on the score rather than the content, and I lost the game." "But this tournament is not the end. Since we have goals for the Nagoya-Aichi Asian Games next year and the 2028 LA Olympics, the day will come when we lose like this and lose like that and win like that." "6th place in the world" player, Ji-hee, and Ki-yeon all lost by one point. I can see that today's game is definitely better than the previous game. I hope the players don't get tired and keep bumping into each other and keep trying"I hoped.
Coach Oh saw the defeat as a 'process', but hoped that 'junior students' would face off more strongly with more venom and create a 'winning habit'. "Now our players have two to three years of experience in the national team. Japanese players are about the same age as our players, but even when I was a player, I had a lot of international experience since I was young enough to meet them on the international stage. We have some players who are new to the Asian Championship, and we still have a lot of room for improvement in terms of experience and mentality." "Our players are feeling as coaches growing up every tournament, but sport is saying it as a result anyway. I hope we can play with a stronger mind with a more venomous spirit." "Even after (Park) Ji-hee's loss today, she said that. 'You've improved a lot, but you have to win in the end. In the end, all you see is what rank you are in, whether you won or lost. Even if you get stabbed, you have to challenge yourself. He emphasized that to win, we need patience and `Kang Da Gu, we need to be strong mentally and gain more experience.' Coach Oh, who took a commemorative photo with his students 'Way to go' with a regretful look on his face, said 'I will interview him with a medal around his neck next time"I promised.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
