WUXI, China, April 12, 2025 – Teams USA and Italy won gold medals in junior women’s and men’s foil on the sixth day of the 2025 Wuxi, China Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships. The 9-day, 18-event competition is being held at the Wuxi Taihu International Expo Center, and today’s events included 33 women’s and 32 men’s junior foil teams competing.
USA faced Italy in the final match of junior women’s team foil, winning with a 45-44 score. In the semifinal round, Italy won against Japan, 41-32, while USA defeated Canada, 45-34. The bronze medal went to Japan over Canada, 35-34.
“We’re really, really excited about this, and we’re so pumped to be here”, said USA’s Jaelyn Liu. “We all work together pretty well as a group and today all of us were cheering each other on, the spirit was really high, and even though we had some challenges in the end we came up. I really wanted that last touch, and I was fighting my hardest, and when I saw it was just one light I was overjoyed.”
Italy faced Team FIE in the final match of junior men’s team foil, winning with a 45-36 score. In the semifinal round, Team FIE won against China, 45-41, while Italy defeated France, 45-44. The bronze medal went to China over France, 45-43.
“We are so happy about it, because we wanted it so bad”, said Italy’s Mattia De Cristofaro. “We were able to win over such a good team, and we had hard bouts during the whole event, but we were able to achieve winning. It was hard. We were pretty down against FIE, and we came back and won. We are also friends off the piste … this means a lot. We will enjoy this moment together.”
Final rankings in junior women’s team foil included USA (gold), Italy (silver), Japan (bronze), Canada, France, Great Britain, Poland and Singapore.
Final rankings in junior men’s team foil included Italy (gold), FIE (silver), China (bronze), France, Japan, Great Britain, Korea and Singapore.
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