Estonian women's épée team wins silver at World Champsionships
Estonia's women's épée foursome took silver at the World Championships in Hong Kong after going down to Olympic champions Italy by just one point, in the final.
The last time the women's épée team reached the World Championship final was nearly a decade ago, in 2017. That time, the team defeated China to take gold.
After a disappointing run in the individual women's épée event late last week and over the weekend, the seventh-seeded women's épée foursome, consisting of Veronika Zuikova, reigning European champion Katrina Lehis, and two veterans from the 2017 final, Julia Beljajeva and Irina Embrich, went all the way to the final to narrowly lose 31–30 to the Italians.
Lehis was crowned European champion last month. Three of the four (Lehis, Beljajeva, and Embrich) were part of the team which took gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021), while Beljajeva and Embrich were in the 2017 final, which Estonia won. Lehis also took bronze at the individual event in Tokyo.
