Aron Szilagyi, Sun Yiwen make history with wins in gold-medal fencing matches

The 36-year-old is the oldest silver medalist in women’s epee, breaking a record set by Laura Flessel-Colovic when the French fencer was 32 years and 283 days old while competing in the Athens Games.

In the bronze-medal match, Katrina Lehis downed Aizanat Murtazaeva, the Russian fencer who eliminated American Kelley Hurley in the round of 16, 15-8 to claim Estonia’s first Olympic fencing medal ever.

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