The quartet had to defeat France and then Japan on the way to the gold medal, just as they did at the Olympics and in Bern.Continue reading
Eszter Muhari won the gold medal in the women’s épée event at the World Cup in Barcelona on Saturday with an ever-improving, high level of performance.
The Paris Olympics bronze medalist was placed in the main draw of 64, where she beat Aurore Favre of Switzerland 15-10, Lee Sinhee of South Korea 15-13, and Tang Junyao of China 15-14 before facing Dzhoan Feybi Bezhura in the quarter-finals. The Ukrainian, winner of the 2023 European Games in Krakow, held on for a long time, but in the end Muhari was more accurate and won 15-10.
To reach the final, she fought Italy’s Lucrezia Paulis, whom she confidently overcame 15-7.
For the gold medal, Eszter Muhari faced South Korea’s Song Sera, the 2022 World Champion. She confidently beat the Asian fencer, who was ranked third in the world rankings.
Muhari won the final 15-9 to top the 303-strong field.
The website of the Hungarian Fencing Federation recalls that 23-year-old Eszter Muhari has already won one Grand Prix event in her career. It was almost a year ago, however, at the Westend Grand Prix in March last year, that she did not get the chance to celebrate, as she could only stand on the second step of the podium and was only later awarded first place.
“It is a great feeling to win a competition, and this is the moment I really felt it! After my bronze medal at the Olympics I was somehow not focused enough, I did not have the real joy of coming back. But now, I feel really, really good! I actually won once with 15-14, and that was after coming back from 11-14. Even then, I felt on the piste that my task was quite simple. I made up an action, the Chinese did not change, and I did the same thing four times in a row… The rest was done, almost by itself,” Muhari told the federation.
Via MTI, hunfencing.hu; Featured image: MTI/Illyés Tibor