After winning the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics epee team event, he defeated Yannick Borel 15-9 in the final and then won the gold medal in the round of 32 against Kim Jae-won of Korea 14-12.

Fencing men’s epee Koki Kano (26, Japan) has become the first individual gold medalist in Japanese fencing history.

On the 28th (local time), Kano defeated Yannick Borel (France) 15-9 in the men’s epee final of the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France.

With this, Kano has won his second gold medal following the men’s epee team event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This is the second gold medal in Japanese fencing history and the first gold medal in individual fencing history.

Previously, Japan’s best individual Olympic fencing performance was a silver medal won by Yuki Ota in the men’s foil event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

On this day, world No. 3 Kano defeated Korea’s Kim Jae-won (Gwangju Seo-gu Office) 14-12 in his first match, the round of 32, and then crushed Wang Zijie (China) 15-4 in the round of 16.

In the quarterfinals, he defeated Ruslan Kurbanov (Kazakhstan) 15-6, and in the semifinals, he defeated Tibor Andraspy (Hungary, ranked 17th in the world) 14-13. In the final, he dominated Borel with his sharp blade and won the championship.

Kano told reporters after the final, “I’m so happy to have won the gold medal in the individual event. “I won a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics three years ago, but it was a team event,” he said. “I wanted to come here and win a gold medal in the individual event, and I did it.” The bronze medal went to Mohamed El-Sayed (Egypt), who defeated Andraspi 8-7 in the third-place match. Meanwhile, Japan is leading the overall Olympic medal standings with a total of seven medals: four golds, two silvers, and one bronze. 파워볼사이트