KUWAIT: The Asian Fencing Championships being held in Kuwait came to conclusion on Thursday with the Chinese women’s Saber team winning first place with fencers Xueyi Rao, Jiayi, Hengyu Yang and Xinyi, as Kazakhstan took second place through Karina Dospay, Anastassiya Gulik, Zhasmin Kapydzhy and Aigerim Sarybay. Third place went to Korea with fencers Sebin Choi, Hayoung Jeon, Eunhye Jeon and Jisu Yoon.

In the senior team men’s foil China ended in first place as fencers Haiwei Chen, Ziwei Mo, Bin We and Jie Xu defeated Korea’s Taegyu Ha, Cheolwoo Lm, Kwanghyun and Jeonghyun Youn.

Japan took third place through Kazuki Limura, Kyosuke Matsuyama, Yudai Nagono and Takahiro Shikine.

Fencers in action during the championship

Meanwhile in the men’s Epee Kazakhstan proved dominant and won the gold medal by fencers Elmir Alimzhanov, Ruslan Kurbanov, Yerlik Sertay and Vadim Sharlaimov. Second place went to Japan through fencers Koki Kano, Akira Komata, Kazuyasu Miobe, Masaru Yamada. China ended in third place with fencers Minghao Lan, Yuhan Xiu, Zijie Wang and Fengming Yang.

In the team women’s foil event, Japan came on top with Sera Azuma, Komaki Kikuchi, Karin Miyawaki and Yuka Ueno. China was second with Qingyuen Chen, Qianqian Huang, Enqi Jiao and Yuting Wang.

Third place went to Hong Kong, China with Daphne Sze Nok Chan, Valeri Wai Hiu Chengo Ching Yu Kuan and Sophia Wu.