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Home favourite and world number-two sabre fencer Sanguk Oh from Korea has won gold at his home Grand Prix in Seoul, while Ukraine’s Olga Kharlan has taken her first international victory since winning the same event last year, an incredible fifteenth career Grand Prix win. Korean sabre fencers have performed well at their home Grand […]

Kharlan and Oh take Gold at Seoul Sabre Grand Prix

Fencing powerhouse Russia has claimed five gold medals at the recently completed Junior and Cadet World Championships held on April 6-14 in Torun, Poland, to claim top spot on the international medal tally. Forty-one men’s and thirty-one women’s teams took part in the annual competition, with eighteen gold medals on offer. Italian fencers easily won […]

Russia tops medal tally at Junior and Cadet World Championships in Poland

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and former world champion sabre fencer, Mariel Zagunis, has defended her title at this years national championships in Salt Lake City, all but booking a spot at her 17th senior World Championships in Budapest this July. As the most decorated fencer in the history of USA Fencing, Zagunis looks likely to […]

Zagunis makes it back-to-back Div. 1 National Championships, looks ahead to 17th Worlds

Sixteen-year-old U.S. fencer Lauren Scruggs has won two foil world titles in two days at the ongoing Junior (U20) and Cadet (U17) World Championships in Torun, Poland. Qualifying for both competitions, her two victories in successive days makes her the only U.S. foil fencer in history to have won both titles at the same championships. […]

Scruggs wins two world titles at Junior and Cadet World Championship in Poland