The three-year-old bronze medalist team, this year’s European champion, started among the eight teams in the field of ten teams and defeated the French with a superior score of 45-19, and then confidently beat Hong Kong in the semi-finals, with a score of 45-29. In the evening finale, the favorite met the Chinese, with whom he won the gold medal in the A category Cou Hszü-feng and second To Haj-janand silver medalist in the B category Hsziao Zsung featured.
The Hungarians started again with Éva Hajmási, Boglárka Madarászné Mező, and Zsuzsanna Krajnyák. The teams must include at least one category B fencer, i.e. with a more serious injury from the point of view of fencing, this was Mező Boglárka for the Hungarians.
The Asians started better, leading 10-3 after two aces, Hajmási and Krajnyák gave a total of three points. It was no surprise that Mezó failed to beat Cout, but then Hajmási significantly improved his position against the Chinese B, Hsiao.
Mező achieved one hit against Ku with a feat, then at 21-25, the fourth member of the Hungarian team, Veres Amarilla, the individual dueling champion in Tokyo, also played a role for the first time during the day. He fought well against Cou, but lost 5-2, so before the last round, the Hungarian team had to overcome a seven-point deficit (23-30).
In the two B-category aces, Hsiao beat Mezó 5-3, followed by Hajmási, who had a much more difficult time against Cou, but once again fought brilliantly. He won 7-5, making the score 33-40, and the finishing man, Krajnyák, would have needed a huge feat against Ku to turn it around.
It didn’t work out, the Chinese won, but the Hungarian national team deserves all the praise because it performed brilliantly all day and moved up one place compared to its result in Tokyo.
The dagger team won the eighth medal and the second silver of the Hungarian delegation in Paris, the total balance is currently three gold, two silver and three bronze.
(MTI)
2024-09-05 20:17:15