フェンシング（Fencing) パリ五輪とその後
Koki Kano wins men's individual epee fencing gold in Paris
Jul 29, 2024 Mainichi, Japan
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*上記の英文記事の翻訳
July 28, 2025, Kyodo (The Mainichi)
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Koki Kano wins men's individual epee fencing gold in Paris
Jul 29, 2024 Mainichi, Japan
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Japan's Koki Kano won the men's individual epee fencing gold at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, beating Frenchman Yannick Borel in the final 15-9.
The win at the Grand Palais gives the 26-year-old Kano a second gold medal to add to the one he claimed in the epee team event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. It also makes him the first Japanese in history to win an individual fencing gold medal.
"I wanted to come here and get gold in the individual and I just did it, " Kano said. "I'm so happy to win gold in the individual event."
Mohamed Elsayed of Egypt won the bronze medal, beating Tibor Andrasfi of Hungary, the man Kano defeated in the semifinal.
Kano got separation from Borel early in their gold medal bout, going up 3-1 late in the first period, he then extended his lead to as many as four hits in the second and closed it out 9-5.
In the final period he let loose, scoring the first three hits as his much taller and increasingly desperate opponent lunged forward with the gold slipping away.
"It feels good to have a medal but it feels bad to lose the match," Borel said.
"I know Kano really well. We've already fenced against one another in team or individual, so I had some tips for the win, but this time it went his way. He did really well, because I wanted to win gold really bad."
After his win, Kano grabbed a Japan flag and ran the length of the piste to celebrate his nation's third gold on Sunday and fourth overall at the Paris Games.
Kano will now look to defend the team title with his compatriots Kazuyasu Minobe, Masaru Yamada and Akira Komata on Friday.
Japan wins 1st ever women's team foil medal in Paris
Aug 2, 2024 (Mainichi, Japan)
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Japan held off a late charge by Canada to win the Paris Games foil fencing team bronze on Thursday, the nation's first medal in the event at the Olympics.
The team of Yuka Ueno, Komaki Kikuchi, Sera Azuma and Karin Miyawaki beat the Canadians 33-32 at the Grand Palais in Paris, giving Japan its second fencing medal of the games after Koki Kano's gold in the men's individual epee on Sunday.
"I couldn't perform the way I wanted to in the individual foil competition," said Ueno, who was eliminated in second round of the women's individual foil. "So I was determined to get a medal in the team event no matter what. I gave it everything I had."
The United States won gold, 45-39 over Italy.
Earlier, the Japanese beat Poland 45-30 in the table of eight and then lost to Italy 45-39 in the semifinal.
After a close start to the bronze medal match, Japan got some score separation in the fifth bout when Ueno beat her 16-year-old opponent Yunjia Zhang 5-1, giving her team a five-point buffer.
Japan surrendered two points across the next three matches, giving 22-year-old Ueno, the final fencer, a three-point lead to defend in the final matchup.
And Ueno needed them all as Eleanor Harvey went on the attack, cutting the lead to one with 49 seconds remaining, but the Japanese defended to the death before ripping off her mask with joy and joining her teammates in celebration at the historic medal.
"I couldn't get a medal in Tokyo (at the Olympics in 2021) so I am happy I have finally got one here," said Azuma. "I was able to put (elimination in) the individual event behind me and ready myself for battle today."
Japan falls to Hungary in men's team epee, takes silver
Aug 3, 2024 (Mainichi, Japan)
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Japan's bid for a second straight men's team epee fencing gold medal ended with a sudden-death loss to Hungary in the championship decider Friday at the Paris Olympics.
Hungary prevailed 26-25 in the low-scoring final at the Grand Palais when its leader Gergely Siklosi scored the decisive hit against Koki Kano, the winner of men's individual epee gold last Sunday.
The Japanese team of Kano, Masaru Yamada, Akira Komata and Kazuyasu Minobe trailed 20-18 going into the ninth and final relay, which pitted Kano against Tokyo individual epee silver medalist Siklosi.
Kano scored the first two touches to tie it 20-20 before Siklosi put Hungary back in front. Down 25-24, Kano sent the contest to sudden death when he penetrated the Hungarian's defense with less than seven seconds of the three-minute time limit to spare.
Siklosi scored the gold medal-winning touch 14 seconds into overtime and was mobbed by his teammates in celebration.
"I knew Koki Kano was going to equalize it, because he's a special fencer," Siklosi said. "So through the whole three minutes, I was preparing for the one-touch (sudden death)."
Olympic debutant Komata was Japan's strongest performer of the final, going unbeaten with an 11-7 scoreline for his three relays.
"I'm a little disappointed we didn't win the gold medal, but I'm happy I was able to win silver at my first Olympics," the 26-year-old said.
"I was so nervous in the first match and the semifinals, but the more experienced team members told me I'd be fine if I just fenced as usual, and that helped me relax in the final."
Japan's first men's team epee title, won on home soil three years ago in Tokyo, was also its first-ever Olympic gold in fencing.
Earlier, the defending champion hung on for a tense 45-37 semifinal win over the Czech Republic that saw the Europeans take the lead during the final relay before Yamada clinched an 18-14 result against Jakub Jurka.
Hungary advanced to the final with a 45-30 win over world No. 1 France, which was aiming for a record-extending 10th Olympic title in the event. The Czechs went on to beat France 43-41 in the bronze-medal match.
Misaki Emura leads Japan to bronze in women's team sabre
Aug 4, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Misaki Emura rebounded from personal disappointment to come up big in the women's team sabre event Saturday by winning the final contest to secure bronze for Japan.
Emura stepped to the Grand Palais piste with Japan holding a 40-37 lead over France but with momentum against her after her teammate Seri Ozaki gave up two points to Manon Apithy-Brunet.
The blonde-haired 25-year-old, who was a shock loser in the last 16 of the individual sabre event, faced off against Sara Balzer and a raucous home crowd, but stood tall to win the bout 5-3 and ensure Japan would take the 45-40 win and its fourth fencing medal of the Paris Games.
"I haven't been able to fence the way I wanted to for a long time and I don't think my performance today was that good either," Emura said.
"But my teammates guided me through both mentally and fencing-wise and that enabled me to fight on till the end."
"I'm really filled with joy to have been able to win the medal with these teammates," Emura, one of Japan's opening ceremony flag bearers, said.
In the final, Ukraine beat South Korea 45-42 to claim gold.
With the bronze medal win, Emura, Ozaki and their teammates Risa Takashima and Shihomi Fukushima became Japan's first sabre fencing Olympic medalists, men or women.
By winning four fencing medals in Paris, Japan has now won more at the ongoing games than it totaled in all previous Olympics, with one more chance at a medal in the men's team
foil event on Sunday.
Japan wins gold in men's fencing team foil event in Paris
Aug 5, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Japan won gold in the men's team foil event at the Paris Olympics on Sunday, with the 45-36 victory over Italy moving the nation to the top of the fencing medal table at the games.
The world's No. 1.-ranked team of Kazuki Iimura, Kyosuke Matsuyama, Takahiro Shikine and substitute Yudai Nagano joined Koki Kano in winning fencing gold medals for Japan at the Grand Palais in Paris.
"I believed we had the quality to win the gold medal. There was pressure to get a team medal (for Japan) for the third day in a row and I am really pleased that we were able to get the gold," said Shikine.
In taking the final fencing gold of the games, Japan made history by becoming the first non-European or Russian team to win the event at the Olympics.
"This is like a dream to be honest and I still can't believe it, but I think our patient work has come to fruition," said Nagano.
Japan opened on the front foot as Shikine took an aggressive posture in his 5-3 defeat of Tommaso Marini, with Iimura continuing the trend in the second leg to give Japan a 10-7 lead.
Italy then took the lead in the match for the first time in the fourth leg thanks to the blade of Guillaume Bianchi, who won his encounter with Shikine 6-3 for a 20-18 Italian lead.
Matsuyama returned fire against Marini on their return to the piste in the fifth, keeping the margin the same with a 5-5 result.
The speedy Iimura got the lead back in the sixth leg with a 7-3 domination of Filippo Macchi before a clash of guards in the next leg caused Bianchi to take an injury time-out with the score 31-28, but he continued strongly to reduce Japan's lead to 35-34.
Both teams called subs to the piste for the penultimate leg, with Nagano proving a game-breaker as he blanked Alessio Foconi to take a 40-34 lead and from there Iimura carried the team to gold.
"My teammates did well to pass the baton on to me (in a good position) and I just felt I had to finish the job," said Iimura.
"We were able to draw strength from the fans here in Paris and people cheering us on back home in the middle of the night."
The medal, Japan's first in the event since the 2012 London Games, comes after Kano won gold in the men's individual epee, the men's epee team took silver, and the women's foil and sabre teams won bronze.
Before the Paris Games, Japan had won three total medals in fencing.
"It's been physically and mentally hard for us with many ups and downs but nobody tried to escape from reality and that is reflected in the result today," reflected Matsuyama.
"I am really proud of all of us."
Olympics: Japan's fencing success in Paris forged over decades
Aug 6, 2024 Mainichi, Japan
PARIS (Kyodo) -- Once a country exclusively focused on succeeding in foil fencing, a decade-long shift to nurturing talent across all weapons catapulted Japan to a record tally of five medals at the Paris Olympics, including two gold.
Japan's first Olympic fencer, Shinichi Maki, fought in foil at the 1952 Helsinki Games before a fourth-place team finish at the 1964 Tokyo Games motivated domestic youth development to focus on foil for the nearly half-century that followed.
With the torso being the only valid target in foil fencing, the event has been seen as a discipline to which the meticulous approach of Japanese fencers is best suited, and it eventually resulted in Yuki Ota winning individual silver in Beijing in 2008, the country's first medal in the sport, and Japan winning team silver four years later in London.
"Silver at the London Games had been Japan's best result in team foil and no one in our team wavered from the goal of eclipsing that, at any cost," captain Kyosuke Matsuyama said Monday, a day after he and his teammates beat Italy in the final for their historic team foil gold.
The 2012 success was the time the Japan Fencing Federation deemed ripe to break ground and "cast a wider net for epee and sabre as well as female fencers" to beef up its talent pool, according to Japan head coach Yusuke Aoki, a push further accelerated after Tokyo won the bid to host the 2020 games.
Epee and sabre programs were established at the Japanese Olympic Committee's elite academy, specializing in youth development, with junior competitions also set up. It led to youngsters, including current women's sabre ace Misaki Emura, taking up the disciplines exclusively to change the Japanese fencing landscape.
The Japan national team has been drafting in coaches from powerhouse nations such as France in recent years to learn the latest developments in the sport. Training camps abroad with strong nations are now a regular occurrence, helping Japanese athletes become more familiar with their foes.
It was the men's epee team that won Japan's first fencing gold in 2021 in Tokyo. Three years on and Koki Kano won the epee individual gold, joining the foil team in topping the podium.
The men's epee team was unable to defend its Tokyo title but secured silver, while women's foil and sabre teams both claimed bronze.
"Our stomachs knotted when hearing Japan won a fencing medal for the third straight day," joked Takahiro Shikine, who clinched the men's team foil gold. "We managed to overcome the pressure."
By joining artistic gymnastics, judo and skateboarding in winning multiple golds in Paris, fencing raised its profile in Japan immeasurably.
"This is the first step toward fencing becoming a forte for Japan," Matsumoto said after Japan fencers' overall performance this summer. "The important thing is to keep winning."
Fencing: Olympic gold medalist Kano wins Japan 1st world epee title
July 28, 2025, Kyodo (The Mainichi)
BILISI (Kyodo) -- Olympic gold medal-winning fencer Koki Kano became Japan's first epee world champion with a 10-9 overtime win against Hungary's Gergely Siklosi in Sunday's final in Tbilisi.
A year after claiming Japan's first individual Olympic gold in the sport in Paris, Kano etched his name in history again after edging his fellow 27-year-old in the Georgian capital in a rematch of the Summer Games' team final decider won by the Hungarian.
"I'm happy to have got another 'first-ever' (title for the country)," Kano said.
The Japanese fencer went on the offensive in the sudden-death overtime, reversing tactics from their previous encounter, and scored the decisive point with a thrust to his opponent's chest.
"I was intent on launching the attack first," he said.
Kano beat compatriots Akira Komata and Masaru Yamada in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, en route to his championship.
"I felt my body was moving significantly well from the first round and managed to continue through to the final," said Kano, who has not felt any dip in his motivation since his Olympics triumph.
"I always feel my efforts have paid off whenever I compete and win tournaments in the sport I love. I want to win even more medals."
Nikita Koshman of Ukraine won the bronze along with Yamada.
In the women's sabre, two-time reigning champion Misaki Emura of Japan went out in the third round.
《上記の英文記事の翻訳》
フェンシング:オリンピック金メダリストの加納が日本初の世界エペタイトルを獲得
2025年7月28日(毎日新聞)
*以下google自動翻訳をそのままコピペした物です。ただし「加納虹輝選手」の漢字が「狩野孝輝」となっていたので訂正しました。
トビリシ(共同通信)--オリンピック金メダルを獲得したフェンシング選手の加納虹輝は、日曜日にトビリシで行われた決勝でハンガリーのゲルゲリー・シクロシに延長戦の末に10-9で勝利し、日本初のエペ世界チャンピオンとなった。
パリで日本初のオリンピック個人金メダルを獲得してから1年後、加納はジョージアの首都で行われた夏季オリンピックの団体決勝決勝でハンガリー人選手が勝利した27歳の選手を破り、再び歴史に名を刻んだ。
「またもや『史上初』(国のタイトル)を獲得できてうれしいです」と加納は語った。
日本のフェンシング選手は、サドンデスの延長戦で前回の対戦から戦術を逆転させ、相手の胸に突き刺して決定的なポイントを決めた。
「私は最初に攻撃を開始するつもりでした」と彼は言いました。
加納は準々決勝と準決勝で同胞の小俣彰選手と山田勝選手をそれぞれ破り、優勝を目指した。
「1回戦から体がかなりうまく動いていると感じ、なんとか決勝まで進むことができました」と、オリンピック優勝以来モチベーションの低下を感じていない加納は語った。
「大好きなスポーツでトーナメントに出場し、優勝するたびに、自分の努力が報われたといつも感じています。もっとメダルを獲得したいです。」
ウクライナのニキータ・コシュマンが山田とともに銅メダルを獲得した。
女子サーブルでは、2度の優勝を誇る日本の江村美咲選手が3回戦で敗退した。
