Veres Amarilla won a gold medal in the dueling competition of wheelchair fencers on Thursday at the Tokyo Paralympics.
In the women's category A fight - i.e. among those less injured from the point of view of fencing - Veres easily advanced from her group with four wins and one loss, and with that, she still had to fight on the incomplete 16 board of the 16-person field.
There, she first beat the American Shelby Jensen with a score of 15-5, and then she overcame the Russian Alena Yevdokimova 15-13 in a great fight. For the final, he defeated the Chinese Qing Pien with tactical fencing, also 15-13, and in the final he faced another Chinese fencer, Zhong Qing, and overcame a disadvantage to win 15-12.
Among Hungarians, only Pál Szekeres was able to win wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics.
Veres Amarilla won the second medal of the Hungarian delegation in Tokyo after Zsófia Konkoly finished second in the 400-meter freestyle on Wednesday.
Source: MTI
