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.
Hungary's Zsombor Keszthelyi and the United States' Hadley Husisian
were victorious in the individual junior épée tournaments at the
International Fencing Federation Junior and Cadet Fencing World
Championships in Dubai.