Uliana Belykh won the girls’ individual foil title at the Dakar Youth Olympic Games, beating Sara Amr Hossny 15-8 in the final. Her route included a 3-4 pool-stage defeat to Danuta Tym before a 15-3 victory over the same opponent in the semi-final. Belykh had also beaten Rianne Leung 15-6 in the quarter-final.
Uliana Belykh won the girls’ individual foil fencing competition at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal. In the final on 8 November, she defeated Egypt’s Sara Amr Hossny 15-8 to take the gold medal. Hossny finished with silver after reaching the championship bout.[1], [2]
Belykh’s pool-stage results included a 3-4 defeat against Poland’s Danuta Tym. She also beat Nur Qalesha Mohd Radzuan 5-3 and Ritej Araoud 5-2. Against Sanda Dubolari and Bowie Wang, she won 5-0 without conceding a point in either bout. In the knockout rounds, Belykh defeated Australia’s Rianne Leung 15-6 in the quarter-final. A second meeting with Tym followed in the semi-final. This time Belykh won 15-3, reversing their pool result and earning a place against Hossny.[1], [2]
Hossny reached the final by defeating Austria’s Lena Mayerl 15-11 in the other semi-final. Mayerl then faced Tym for the bronze medal, bringing together the two losing semi-finalists. The Austrian won that bout 15-11 to claim bronze.[2]
