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- Ukraine won the gold medal match against Republic of Korea in the women’s team sabre event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. It was Ukraine’s second Olympic gold medal in this event after winning in 2008. Ukraine (G2-S5-B1) won a medal in this event at eight successive world championships (2007-2015), including world titles in 2009 and 2013. It claimed its last medal in 2015 (silver).
- Hungary won the last two world titles in the women’s team sabre event. It can become the second NF to win three successive world titles in this event.
- France (G3-S6-B4) is level with Russia (G8-S3-B2) on a record 13 medals in this event at the world championships. France won its last world title in this event in 2018. It also won gold in 2006 and 2007. The French reached the final at each of the past four world championships. They won gold in 2018, and took silver in 2019, 2022 and 2023. France won the last four European titles in this event (2022-2025), including in Genoa in June.
- Republic of Korea took Olympic silver in the women’s team sabre event at Paris 2024. It won four world championships medals in this event: G0-S1-B3. Only France (G1-S3-B1) won more medals in this event at the past five world championships than Korea.
- Japan took bronze in this event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Japan’s only podium finish in this event at the world championships was a third place in 2022. Japan defeated Republic of Korea in this event at the Asian championships in Bali in June.
- United
States (G3-S2-B4) has won nine medals in the women’s team
sabre event. Only France (13) and Russia (13) claimed more medals in this
event. Mariel Zagunis was part of all nine USA’s medal winning teams. USA’s
last medal in the women’s team sabre was a bronze medal in 2015. In 2025, USA
won this event at the Pan American championships in June, and at the junior
world championships in Wuxi in April. Alexandra Lee and Siobhan Sullivan
competed for USA in both competitions. Siobhan Sullivan (born 30 July 2005)
celebrates her 20th birthday on the day of the final of this event.
- Italy’s last medal in the women’s team sabre at the world championships was the gold medal in Leipzig in 2017. In the same year the Italians also won the European title in Tbilisi.
- Uzbekistan hopes to win its first medal in fencing at the world championships. It won the women’s team sabre event at the Asian Games in 2023. In 2025, Uzbekistan’s Luisa Fernanda Herrera Lara, Gulistan Perdibaeva and Samira Shokirova helped the team claim bronze at the (senior) Asian championships in June. They also took bronze at the junior world championships in April, and they won the junior World Cup in Tbilisi in February.
Various
- Until 2025, Azerbaijan had won eight medals in fencing at the world championships, all in women’s sabre events. It claimed three medals in the team event, all bronze medals (1999, 2002, 2003).
- China won the women’s team sabre World Cup event in Heraklion in March 2025. It has never won a medal in this event at the world championships. Qimiao Pan (CHN, born 9 June 2009) was still only 15 years old when she helped China win that World Cup event in Heraklion in March 2025. This year she also claimed a silver medal (cadet) and bronze medal (junior) medal at the junior and cadet world championships in Wuxi in April.
- Poland has won world championships medals in all men’s and women’s fencing events, except in the women’s team sabre event. In contrast, Poland won 17 medals in the men’s team sabre event.