China and Kuwait win foil titles at Senayan

China and Kuwait win foil titles at Senayan

JAKARTA (JP): Huang Hina of China stopped the aggressive Park
Sung-ae of South Korea 15-7 in less than six minutes to win the
girls' individual foil competition at the 4th Asian Juniors and
Cadets Fencing Championships at the Senayan indoor tennis stadium
yesterday.

A cool and watchful Huang won the mind game from the onset
after Park's loose bodywire delayed the bout by almost two
minutes.

Park won the first few points through vigorous sword play and
shouting. Huang, on the other hand, fought with a lady-in-waiting
style.

She seemed passive, defending only when necessary. But
suddenly her foil would lunge into her opponent's trunk to
equalize the bout point by point.

After three minutes, the score stood was 6-5 for Huang.

After a minute break, Huang was unstoppable. She quickly
soared 14 before a signal that the second three-minute period was
near its end. Park managed to score one more point before Huang
finished the duel.

The bronze medals went Seo Mi-jung of South Korea and Yuko
Kumagai of Japan. Seo fell 14-15 to Huang and Yuko lost 10-15 to
Park in the semifinals earlier in the day.

In the boys' foil competition, Shahrayen Abdelmoh of Kuwait
won the gold medal after beating South Korea's Kim Woon-sung 15-
12 in a tight battle. Mir Mohammadi of Iran and Shinji Sakata of
Japan took the bronze medals. Mir was beaten 7-15 by Shahrayen
and Shinji lost 11-15 to Kim.

Today the championships will open with preliminary matches in
both the junior men's epee and the cadet men's saber at 9 a.m.,
followed by the semifinals at 3 p.m. and the finals at 7.30 p.m.

Those fencing in the junior category must be 20 years or
younger, while the cadets must be younger than 17. (arf)