WUXI, China, April 14, 2025 – Hungary’s Lotti Horvath and USA’s Nathaniel Wimmer won gold medals in cadet women’s and men’s individual epee on the eighth 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 123 women and 140 men competing.
Horvath faced Ukraine’s Alina Dmytruk in the final bout of cadet women’s individual epee, winning with a 15-11 score. In the semifinal round, Dmytruk won against Hong Kong, China’s Haidi Wu, 15-4, while Horvath defeated Israel’s Alexandra Kravets, 15-9.
“It feels really awesome, I’ve thought about this a lot but I didn’t realize it could come true”, said Horvath. “The first part of the DEs were hard, but after I won the quarterfinals that gave me so much power. But overall I just wanted to enjoy fencing. In the final, I had a really good vibe, I focused and was able to win. I tried to focus on what I was going to do in the next touch. This means everything to me, I’ve been preparing for the World Championships all year. I would like to go to the Olympics but that is a lot of years from now, so for now I’ll do my best.”
Wimmer faced Elisei Pisarev (AIN) in the final bout of cadet men’s individual epee, winning with a 15-10 score. In the semifinal round, Pisarev won against Canada’s Junzhe (Simon) Shan, 15-8, while Wimmer defeated Italy’s Nicolo Sonnessa, 15-9.
“It feels amazing. After I fenced yesterday, I woke up and was feeling dead tired, I didn’t think it was happening”, said Wimmer. “After pools, the possibility began to slip into my mind. I was feeling good. In the last minute of the final bout, I was absolutely dying, I was going by pure instinct, training and muscle memory. Last year I was here for cadets and lost in the table of 64, and was thinking, how can these fencers be so good and perform at this level? So being here today, I accomplished my dream!”
Final rankings in cadet women’s individual epee included Lotti Horvath (HUN, gold), Alina Dmytruk (UKR, silver), Haidi Wu (HKG, bronze), Alexandra Kravets (ISR, bronze), Valeriia Bilous-Gridzhak (UKR), Laena Lee (KOR), Regina Lee (USA) and Jiayu Zhao (CHN).
Final rankings in cadet men’s individual epee included Nathaniel Wimmer (USA, gold), Elisei Pisarev (AIN, silver), Nicolo Sonnessa (ITA, bronze), Junzhe (Simon) Shan (CAN, bronze), Andy Zheng (USA), Aron Petrovszki (HUN), Thomas Gauliard (FRA) and Daniel Chirashnya (USA).
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