The teams participating in the 2024 Junior and Cadet Fencing World Championships (men and women) have arrived in Riyadh, gearing up for the tournament's kickoff on Friday. The event will run until April 20 at the Arena Hall of King Saud University in Riyadh, featuring 1,700 athletes from over 100 countries. On Thursday, a meeting will be held for the referees and technical committees to review the latest updates.
This past week, at the Junior & Cadet Fencing World Championships, first-year Hadley Husisian defended her epée title from the 2022 Championships, becoming one of two American fencers to ever win the tournament, and the first American fencer to ever win the title twice.
American athletes starred with eight golds at the Junior and Cadet
Fencing World Championships in Plovdiv, where Russian competitors
remained absent because an International Fencing Federation decision
to allow their return does not come into force until later this month.