Indian fencer Bhavani Devi gained gold on the Commonwealth Fencing Championship 2022 within the senior ladies’s sabre particular person class.
The forty second ranked Bhavani defeated the second-seeded Australian Veronika Vasileva 15-10 within the sabre ultimate to safe the gold medal.
Earlier in July, Bhavani misplaced her spherical of 32 duel, 12-15, in opposition to Germany’s Larissa Eifler on the World Fencing Championships.
Devi’s exit meant she didn't equal her efficiency on the 2019 World Championships, the place she had reached the Spherical of 16 . She beat Canada’s Gabriella Web page 15-14 to advance to the Spherical of 32.
The Commonwealth Fencing Championship 2022 is Bhavani’s tenth worldwide event of this 12 months and has carried out commendably up to now.
Fencing as a sport is recognised by the Commonwealth Video games Federation and was part of the Commonwealth Video games programme until 1970. Since 1970, the Commonwealth Fencing Championships are held each 4 years in the identical 12 months because the Commonwealth Video games.
