Russia’s Yana Egorian and Korea’s Park Sangyoung claimed Olympic gold medals in the women’s sabre and men’s epee fencing respectively after nail-biting finishes to their finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Russian fencer Yana Egorian beat top-ranked team mate Sofya Velikaya in a close-fought sabre final at the Rio Olympics on Monday, with London 2012 bronze medalist Olga Kharlan of Ukraine again on the third step of the podium.
Hungary’s Emese Szasz won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic fencing competitions with a 15-13 victory over Italy’s Rossella Fiamingo in the women’s epee.
Without a national delegation, an Olympic scholarship or even an international ranking, Kuwait's first fencer at the Games in 16 years knows the odds are stacked against him.