Hong Kong Men’s Foil Fencing Team Dominates at Chengdu Universiade: Fourth Gold Medal Victory

2023-08-07 09:54:25

[Tilu Chengdu Direct Attack]The Hong Kong men’s foil fencing team composed of “Sword God” Zhang Jialang, Cai Junyan, Li Yilang, and Wu Nuohong defeated the French team in the final of the Chengdu Universiade Men’s Flower Team Competition. With the absolute advantage at the end, he played triumphantly with 45:33 and won the Hong Kong team’s fourth gold medal “Bai Zhai”. The Hong Kong delegation has accumulated 4 golds, 1 silver and 7 bronzes so far.

The men’s Huagang team, which has sent the strongest lineup ever to compete in this year’s Universiade, competed as the top seed in the team competition, passed the test, swept Macau 45:3 in the first round, defeated Poland 45:42 in the quarterfinals, and beat China in the semifinals At 45:35, they broke into the final strongly and challenged the French team for the championship. The latter was led by Pierre Loisel, the runner-up in the individual competition and ranked 63rd in the world, together with Alexandre Sido, ranked 79th, Tyvan Bibard, ranked 83rd and Maximilien Chastane, ranked 83rd, took the challenge.

Zhang Jialang took the lead and narrowly won 5:4. Li Yilang followed up with a good performance and beat Pierre Loisel 5:1. In addition, Cai Junyan won 5:3. start. In the 5th and 6th rounds, Zhang Jialang and Cai Junyan played 5:2 and 5:5 respectively, with a total score of 9 points (30:21). Entering the final round of the competition, Hong Kong will play steadily and further expand its advantage. The Hong Kong team finally defeated the French champion 45:33 and won the fourth gold medal of the Hong Kong delegation. Following Wei Hanna in 2009 and He Shibei in 2017, the first World Universiade “double champion” outside of swimming.

In the women’s team competition, the Hong Kong team sent Liu Yingyi, Zhu Yongqiao and Liang Luowen to fight against Japan in the round of 16 this morning. After Zhu Yongqiao played 7:4 in the second game, the Hong Kong team once overtook 10:9, and then Liang Yingyi lost 0:5 and 1:5 successively. Zhu Yongqiao played again in the last game, but was unable to catch up. In the end, the Hong Kong team lost 38:45.

So far, the Hong Kong delegation has won 4 golds, 1 silver and 7 bronzes. Among them, fencing won 3 golds and 1 bronze. Hong Kong who wins the medal will receive bonuses from the “Jockey Club Outstanding Athlete Award Scheme”. The top three in individual events will receive HK$500,000, HK$250,000 and HK$100,000 respectively, and the top three in team events will receive HK$1 million, HK$500,000 and HK$200,000.

Chengdu World Universiade Hong Kong team medals (as of8moon7Day)
4 gold medals: Martial Arts Men’s Tai Chi Sword (Xu Deen), Women’s Epee (She Shanxi), Men’s Foil (Zhang Jialang), Men’s Foil Team Competition (Zhang Jialang, Cai Junyan, Li Yilang, Wu Nuohong)
1 Silver: Martial Arts Men’s Southern Fist (Liu Zilong)
7 Bronze: Martial Arts Men’s Taijiquan (Xu Deen), Women’s Cudgel (Shen Xiaoyu), Table Tennis Women’s Team Competition (Du Kaiqin, Su Huiyin, Lin Yinuo, Wu Yonglin, Li Kaimin), Table Tennis Mixed Doubles (He Junjie, Du Kaiqin) , Men’s Foil (Cai Junyan), Tennis Mixed Doubles (Huang Zelin, Wang Kangyi), Badminton Men’s Singles (Gao Chengxi)

Recent World Universiade Hong Kong team results (4 gold, 1 silver and 7 bronze)
2019: Tennis Women’s Singles Bronze Medal (Zhang Weihuan), Tennis Women’s Doubles Bronze Medal (Zhang Weihuan, Wu Manying)
2017: Swimming Women’s 100m Freestyle Gold Medal (He Shibei), Swimming Women’s 200m Freestyle Gold Medal (He Shibei), Tennis Men’s Doubles Bronze Medal (Yang Bolang/Huang Junkeng), Martial Arts Women’s Tai Chi and Tai Chi Sword Bronze Medal (Mo Wanying)
2015: Swimming women’s 50m backstroke silver medal (Ou Kaichun)
2011: Men’s 4×100m relay bronze medal in track and field (He Wenle, Li Zhenhao, Liang Qihao, Ye Shaoqiang), fencing women’s saber individual bronze medal (Ouyang Huixin), gymnastics women’s vault bronze medal (Huang Xiaoying)
2009: Swimming Women’s 100m Freestyle Gold Medal (Wei Hanna), Swimming Women’s 100m Butterfly Gold Medal (Wei Hanna)

Photo and text: Li Zizheng

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