(Asiad) Park Ji-hee wins silver in women's individual foil fencing at Asian Games
TOKONAME, Japan, Sept. 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Park Ji-hee won the silver medal in the women's foil individual event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday.
Park lost to Yuka Ueno of Japan 15-4 in the final at Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, some 35 kilometers south of the main host city of Nagoya.
She reached the podium at her first Asian Games appearance.
Bronze medals went to Polina Volobueva of Uzbekistan and Maxine Jie Xin Wong of Singapore.
South Korea's Park Ji-hee (L) performs during the semifinals of the women's individual foil fencing at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Aichi Sky Expo in Tokoname, some 35 kilometers south of the main host city of Nagoya, on Sept. 23, 2026. (Yonhap)
Park was scoreless in the first period, falling 8-0 to Ueno.
Her first point came midway through the second period, when she trailed 12-1. Park scored three more points but could not complete a comeback.
KioskNews shows a cleaned-up reading view extracted from the publisher’s page — the original always lives on their site, not ours.