Nigeria celebrates historic victory as Egypt emerges overall champions

Pleasure enveloped Team Nigeria’s camp at the weekend when the country’s women’s epee team recorded their first-ever victory in the African Fencing Championship to attain amongst the live 5 groups.

The 5-day match held at Charterhouse, Lagos, ended at the weekend with Egypt rising because the total champions. But Team Nigeria’s happiness stemmed from their victory over the Benin Republic in a classification bout that catapulted the country to the fifth diagram.

The women, comprising Somtochukwu Eribenne, Sara Idongesit, and Adebodunirin Thomas, rose from their quarterfinal defeat by Algeria to beat Benin Republic forty five-40.

Speaking after the fight, an overjoyed Thomas described the victory as a morale booster asserting: “We're enraged to salvage interaction our first recreation and moreover attain in the live 5 in the event. We labored collectively as a team, and our coach helped us to set up a right fight towards our opponents. This might likely maybe well undoubtedly support our self belief going into the following opponents.”

Egypt continued its dominance in the boys’s team foil, defeating Angola in a one-sided closing. The Egyptian team, featuring 2025 men’s foil champion Abdelrahman Tolba, Karim Medhat, Mohamed Hamza, and Sief Elghayesh, cruised past Nigeria forty five-9 in the semifinals sooner than overpowering Angola forty five-23 in the final.

Angola, led by Tomas Pedro, Valter Barros, Francisco Manuel, and Luis Macedo, earned their diagram in the final after a dramatic forty five-44 engage over Algeria in the semifinals. Despite a solid open by Algeria, Angola mounted a sharp comeback to glean a narrow victory and their first podium attain.

In the women’s team epee closing, Egypt modified into awarded the gold medal when the match towards Algeria modified into halted at 6-6. Algeria refused to continue, ensuing in a P. Unlit decision in Egypt’s favour.

Egypt moreover triumphed in the women’s team sabre, where Alanoud Hegazy, Nada Hafez, Nagwa Nofal, and Renad Eldoksh led the team to a forty five-40 victory over Algeria.

At the tip of the opponents, Egypt topped the total medals table with 11 gold, 5 silver, and 5 bronze medals. Kenya followed in second diagram with one gold, whereas Tunisia secured third with two silver and two bronze medals.

Algeria modified into fourth with one silver and 6 bronze medals, Côte d’Ivoire and South Africa every claimed one silver and one bronze, whereas Angola earned one silver.

Morocco, Cape Verde, and Senegal every took home one bronze medal. The 5-day, 12-event match, hosted by the Nigeria Fencing Federation at Charterhouse, Lagos, featured over 120 fencers from 18 international locations.