Continental fencing heavyweights arrive for 23rd African Championships
The supreme of African fencing countries, including Egypt and Tunisia, have arrived in Nigeria before the 23rd African Fencing Championships, that will be held at Charterhouse Lagos from day after lately to June 29.
The 5-day, 12-event tournament will feature high fencers from across the continent, all vying for the 12 gold medals in each and each particular person and crew events.
Egypt, basically the most decorated nation in African fencing, arrived with the supreme contingent, including the El-Sayed brothers, Olympic bronze medallist Mohamed El-Sayed, and world junior champion Mahmoud El-Sayed.
Mohamed, 22, claimed bronze on the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and also obtained gold on the 2022 Mediterranean Games. His youthful brother, Mahmoud, not too long ago clinched gold on the 2025 Junior World Championships in Wuxi, China, and for the time being holds the enviornment No. 1 junior ranking.
The Egyptian crew, which landed in Lagos aboard an EgyptAir flight from Cairo, is determined to defend the overall title they secured in 2024. Tunisia, one other fencing powerhouse, arrived with a stable squad led by Paris 2024 Olympic silver medallist, Farès Ferjani. The 27-yr-outdated is the reigning champion within the actual person males’s saber and can even lead Tunisia’s males’s sabre crew.
Utterly different taking half countries, including Mauritius, Angola, Rwanda, South Africa, Guinea, Morocco, Libya, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Senegal, have been anticipated to attain yesterday before the tournament’s opening day.
In the period in-between, the Nigeria Fencing Federation (NFF) has expressed gratitude for the overwhelming give a enhance to obtained from corporate sponsors and participants, notably Charterhouse, the host venue, which also staged the 2024 World Cup.
Federation President, Adeyinka Samuel, stated: “We're genuinely grateful for the give a enhance to from authorities agencies and corporate bodies in helping to set aside Nigeria on the worldwide fencing arrangement thru the information superhighway hosting of this continental championship. Charterhouse has been a steadfast associate for the reason that 2024 World Cup, and their persevered give a enhance to is deeply most well liked. We hope this inspires other institutions to notice their lead.”
