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Stephy Zhang

City fencers will join over 1,000 top competitors from more than 200 countries and regions to battle for 12 gold medals at the Fencing World Championships in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
Held at AsiaWorld-Expo over nine days, the event marks the first time Hong Kong has staged the senior Fencing World Championships, the highest-tier tournament globally this year.
Among Hong Kong’s 24 fencers at the event, home favourites include men’s foilists Ryan Choi Chun-yin – the defending champion currently ranked world No 2 – and two-time Olympic gold medallist Cheung Ka-long, who sits at No 15 after winning team gold at last year’s National Games. They are joined by world No 13 women’s épéeist Kaylin Hsieh Sin-yan.
Ranked in the top 16, all three receive a bye through the qualifiers starting on Wednesday directly into Saturday’s main draw of 64.
Hoping to get out of the qualifiers and into the main draw are men’s épéeist Cedric Ho Wai-hang and sabreist Aaron Ho Sze-long, who are joined by four young fencers making their World Championships debuts on home soil – foilists Harris Ho Shing-him and Janelle Leung Ya-lei and sabreists Royce Chan Lok-hei and Lau Yee-ching.
High expectations also surround mainland Chinese fencers in what is a pivotal transition year for the national fencing programme, following a historic best performance of three gold and four silver medals at the World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships in April in Brazil.

The mainland squad of 29 features 17-year-old women’s sabreist Pan Qimiao, ranked world No 15 after sweeping both the cadet and junior individual gold medals at the World Championships, and women’s épéeist Tang Junyao, ranked 27th following her individual bronze and team gold at the 2026 Wuxi Épée World Cup.
They are joined by Paris Olympian women’s foilist Jiao Enqi, alongside National Games foil champions Huang Qianqian and Xu Jie.
Pan goes straight into the main draw, while Tang, Jiao, Huang and Xu start their campaigns in the qualifiers.
Following Seoul in 1999, Beijing in 2008 and Wuxi in 2018, Hong Kong is the fourth Asian city to host the flagship tournament, capping an eight-year bidding process backed by an investment of around HK$20 million (US$2.5 million).
The main arena is in AsiaWorld-Expo’s largest Hall 1, which seats 7,000 spectators, with Hall 2 serving as the secondary venue.
Organisers expect to attract more than 50,000 attendees across the nine days.
Tickets for the World Championships, which run from July 22 to 30, are available on the ticketing platform Klook, with prices ranging from HK$150 to HK$1,500.
However, tickets for the first of three preliminary-round days on Wednesday have sold out, along with all top-tier HK$1,500 seats for the main draw. For Saturday’s action, only HK$1,200 tickets and HK$1,050 restricted-view options are available.
The event will also be broadcast on television and live-streamed.


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Ryan Choi, Cheung Ka-long and Kaylin Hsieh skip the qualifiers and receive a bye to the main draw thanks to their top 16 ranking


Ryan Choi, Cheung Ka-long and Kaylin Hsieh skip the qualifiers and receive a bye to the main draw thanks to their top 16 ranking.


Hong Kong fencers prepare to compete at World Championships on home soil for first time

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Ryan Choi, Cheung Ka-long and Kaylin Hsieh skip the qualifiers and receive a bye to the main draw thanks to their top 16 ranking