{"id":1708,"date":"2026-07-31T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:25:06","slug":"egypt-defeat-israel-to-secure-world-championship-bronze-in-fencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Defeat Israel to Secure World Championship Bronze in Fencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fencing.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Egypt Defeat Israel to Secure World Championship Bronze in Fencing\" title=\"Egypt Defeat Israel to Secure World Championship Bronze in Fencing\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt\u2019s men\u2019s fencing team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/6\/56\/573700\/Sports\/Omni-sports\/Fencing-Egypt-men%E2%80%99s-epee-team-defeats-Israel-to-cl.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">won<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the bronze medal at the World Fencing Championships after edging Israel 39-38 in a third-place match on Wednesday, 29 July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Egyptian quartet of Mohamed El-Sayed, Youssef Shamel, Mahmoud Mohsen and Mahmoud El-Sayed finished on the podium after an impressive run through the tournament in Hong Kong, which runs from July 22 to 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt opened its campaign with a 44-33 victory over Portugal in the round of 32 before edging Spain 36-35 in the last 16.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The team then produced a commanding display in the quarter-finals, beating Russia 45-35 to secure a place in the semi-finals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt\u2019s bid for a place in the final ended with a 41-32 defeat to Kazakhstan, but the team recovered to beat Israel in a closely fought bronze-medal match, with the contest decided by a golden touch after the scores were tied at 38-38.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The result adds to a growing list of achievements for Egypt\u2019s men\u2019s epee team, which has established itself among the world\u2019s leading sides in recent years. In 2025, the team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/6\/56\/543822\/Sports\/Omni-sports\/Fencing-Egypt-wins-historical--World-Cup-title.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> history by winning their first-ever Fencing World Cup title, defeating world champions and hosts Hungary 45\u201337 in the final after a run that included victories over Olympic champions South Korea and France.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egypt also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/paris-2024-football-men-egypt-advance-paraguay\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reached<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the quarter-finals at the Paris 2024 Olympics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<div class=\"container-sections\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.egyptianstreets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/wp-content\/themes\/est\/theme\/assets\/images\/shopify-banner.png\" alt=\"Shop Egyptian Streets Store\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Egypt\u2019s men\u2019s fencing team won the bronze medal at the World Fencing Championships after edging Israel 39-38 in a third-place match on Wednesday, 29 July. The Egyptian quartet of Mohamed El-Sayed, Youssef Shamel, Mahmoud Mohsen and Mahmoud El-Sayed finished on the podium after an impressive run through the tournament in Hong Kong, which runs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/fencing.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3242,3241,236,113,3239,2,576,40],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bronze","tag-championship","tag-defeat","tag-egypt","tag-fencing","tag-israel","tag-secure","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}