Hong Kong 2026 Individual Men's Foil Finals' Highlights | Fencing World Championships
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We're underway then. Win here and you've got yourself guaranteed world championship silver.
All three times the referee has said allee or go, he has gone.
A minute gone in the final.
To the third.
On. On.
On. That's on.
Both going to three p.m. for three minutes.
Still the attack from the right.
On. On. On.
And not take on any more damage.
Just to slow things up.
He wants to get another one and he does.
There it is. Alexander Shupinich of Czechia.
Look back at this one, Geoff.
To get inside the distance of Maki, he's going to have to be quicker on his feet and take the blade.
On.
A big surprise, seeing a broken blade.
On. On.
On.
That's a nice idea from Iimura.
On.
He's ready for it.
He has to set it up and change his timing and speed a little.
On.
Couple in a row now.
On.
That's three.
On.
What an attack.
On.
Beautiful attack.
He's just playing with it.
The last one is no.
But then he picks up a second parry.
The only question.
On.
Every day he's been thinking about that silver medal in Paris.
And how he thought it should have been gold.
On.
Quick. He has to change the tempo.
Go slow fast.
On.
also it's a good on guard. Wide margin. Alexander Shupanich will have to wait
for a final decision here from the referee. And he calls it attack into
his second hit of the match. Attack from the right and Alexander Shupanich of
Czechia becomes his country's first ever fencing world champion and he's done it
by a quite astonishing scoreline of 15 points to two. The silver medal will go
to Filippo Macchi but the new world champion in men's foil is Alexander
Shupanich. If there ever was a deserving world champion it's Alexander Shupanich.
He was outstanding. What a performance.