'Sabre Shin Seong'Ha Young (23, Seoul City Hall, world No. 8) won her first individual gold medal at an international competition after winning a silver medal in the team event at the Paris Olympics.
On the 10th (Korea time), Ha Young defeated Lucia Martin Fortunes (world fifth) 15-7 in the final of the Fencing Federation (FIE) Orang Women's Sabre World Cup held in Algeria.
In the semi-finals, Ha Young, who made it to the finals with Hungary's Sugar Katinka Batai (31st in the world) by a score of 15 to 14 after a close match, became stronger after overcoming a major crisis. The Final Fist was close to perfection. He overwhelmed his opponent with his absolute skills, and the FIE praised "What a performance!"
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Ha Yong-young, a former Junior Champion, is an ace who played a decisive role in winning the silver medal in the women's sabre team event along with Yoon Ji-soo, Choi Se-bin and Jeon Eun-hye at the Paris Olympics last summer. After the Paris Olympics, his senior Yoon Ji-soo announced his retirement after the National Sports Festival, and he won his first gold medal in the World Cup individual competition with his overwhelming skills, along with the succession of the Korean female fencing ace of Kim Ji-yeon and Yoon Ji-soo.
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Meanwhile, in the men's sabre individual event, Park Sang-won, the youngest member of 'New Avengers' and the team gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, won the bronze medal.
