Original title: The individual competition of the National Fencing Championships produced six new champions
Xinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, October 20 (Reporters Dong Yixing and Wang Haoming) The individual competition of the 2023 National Fencing Championships concluded on the 20th. Huang Mengkai of the Fujian team and Wu Caiyao of the Guangdong team won the men’s foil and women’s epee individual championships respectively. All six individual champions in this competition are competing for the national championship for the first time.
Cai Jinhui, a young player from the Shanghai team, defeated national team players Wu Bin and Xu Jie, and met Huang Menkai in the men’s individual finals. In the group match that day, Cai Jinhui came back from 1:4 behind to defeat Huang Menkai 5:4. In the final, Huang Mengkai learned from the experience of the group stage and played more cautiously. He firmly controlled the situation from the beginning and finally won 15:9.
Due to illness before the game, Huang Mengkai’s physical fitness was greatly affected. He said that he finally won by relying more on experience and persistence.
Huang Mengkai won the individual and team championships in the National Fencing Championship finals in September this year, and together with his teammates won the men’s foil team championships in all three events this year. Regarding the team competition of the National Championships on the 22nd, Huang Mengkai is determined to win: “Strive to win the gold medal in the team competition and win a Grand Slam this year.”
The women’s heavyweight individual finals started between two “post-00s” young players Shi Yuexin of Jiangsu team and Wu Caiyao of Guangdong team. Shi Yuexin, who won the women’s heavyweight team bronze medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games with the team, took the lead and took a 5:1 lead. But Wu Caiyao changed the rhythm and tied the score to 6:6 through a more decisive and proactive forward attack.
Subsequently, the point difference between the two was never greater than 1 point, until Wu Caiyao scored 3 points in a row at the end of the game, and finally won 15:12. “I am an attacker. After all, Shi Yuexin is a member of the national team.” Wu Caiyao said after the game. “After winning the first national championship, I finally feel that my efforts have paid off.”
On the 21st, the women’s saber, men’s epee and women’s foil team competitions will be held.
2023-10-21 00:43:00
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