Chinese women fencers were excellent in the today's competition for the champion of women's fencing team epée against France. Oct. 8 - China won the champion of the Women's Fencing Team Epée in the competitions with France in the World Fencing Championship, the top-seeded squad of the Championship held in Italy yesterday, with the score of 45-26. This is the first time for Chinese fencers to achieve the team champion in the history of world championship.
France won the silver medal and Germany got the bronze. The best result that China women fencers ever won before was the silver medal won in the Championship 1999. The champion of the Men's Fencing Team Sabre is France, and they beat Ukraine with 45-41 in the final competition. Russia and Hungary came the third and fourth respectively, and China listed the 13th.
Chinese women fencers were excellent in the today's competition for the champion of women's fencing team epée against France. They beat the second-seeded squad Hungary in the quarter-final and third-seeded squad Germany in the semi-final.
In the first competition today, Luo Xiaojuan won her competition with a score of 3-2. The second fencer Li Na beat her competitor 3-0, which made china women team lead with 6-2 in the first two sets. In the third set, Zhong Weiping also won with 4-3 and in the fourth, Xiaojuan Luo won again with 4-1. Despite Zhong's loss at her second competition in the fifth set with 1-2, China women still lead with 15-8. In the sixth set, Li came back with 9-7 in the last 20 seconds. Zhong played well in the seventh set and scored 8 in the first two minutes and won the set with 10-5. Luo won the following eighth set with 6-4. The final fencer for China women team today was Li, who also won the last set with 5-2. The final score for the whole competitions was 45-26, realizing the Chinese team's dream of the world champions for the first time.