Hong Kong's reigning foil champion, Choi, defends his title at the Kerry Fencing World Championships in Hong Kong, with his coach emphasizing mental strength as key due to recent injury and limited training.
Hong Kong's world No 2 fencer Ryan Choi Chun-yin is racing to recover from a hamstring injury before the World Fencing Championships on home soil. Coach Greg Koenig expressed pride in the team's runner-up finish at the Asian Championships despite injuries and food poisoning.
Daphne Chan secured Hong Kong's first women's individual bronze medal at the Asian Fencing Championships, defeating South Korean and Japanese opponents before falling to eventual finalist Sera Azuma.
Greg Koenig, the French head coach who transformed Hong Kong into a fencing powerhouse, has welcomed a new global fencing league as a positive move for the sport. Koenig, 47, who began coaching in Hong Kong in 2018 and has guided world No.1 Ryan Choi Chun-yin and double Olympic champion Cheung Ka-long, believes the competition brings fencing into a modern era with technology and new audience engagement while staying true to the sport's century-long evolution.
