BARCELONA, Spain, February 11-13, 2022—Korea’s Sera Song took the gold medal in individual women’s epee at the Barcelona Women’s Epee World Cup, with France winning the team event. The competition took place at the Institut Nacional d’Educació Fisica de Catalunya (INEFC), site of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic and Paralympic Games, with 269 women’s epeeists and 28 teams participating.
Song faced France’s Marie-Florence Candassamy in the final match of individual women’s epee, winning by a touch with a 14-13 score. Candassamy beat her teammate, Auriane Mallo, in the semifinals, 15-12, and Song defeated Russia’s Aizanat Murtazaeva, 11-10.
In the final women’s epee team match, France won against Russia, 45-34. Russia beat Germany in the semifinals, 42-36, and France defeated Italy, 40-31. The bronze medal went to Italy over Germany, 42-35.
Final rankings for individual women’s epee included Sera Song (KOR, gold), Marie-Florence Candassamy (FRA, silver), Auriane Mallo (FRA, bronze), Aizanat Murtazaeva (RUS, bronze), Renata Knapik-Miazga (POL), Margherita Guzzi Vincenti (USA), Kaylin Sin Yan Hsieh (HKG) and Nelli Differt (EST).
Final rankings for women’s team epee included France (gold), Russia (silver), Italy (bronze), Germany, Estonia, Korea, USA and Poland.
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