Live streaming, World Fencing Championships 2023: Bhavani Devi eyes Paris 2024 qualification - where to see, full schedule
India have named a 24-member team to compete in all 12 events. The World Fencing Championships 2023 in Milan offers qualifying points for Paris 2024 Olympics. Watch live!
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The World Fencing Championships 2023, one of the five competitions that offers qualifying points for the Paris 2024 Olympics, is scheduled to take place in Milan, Italy from July 22 to 30.
Fencers from over 150 countries will compete in the foil, epee and sabre categories, both in individual and team events at the Milan Convention Center (MiCo). Live stream will be available on Olympics.com.
The individual events will run from July 22-27 while the team events will be held from July 27-30.
A 24-member Indian fencing team, led by Olympian Bhavani Devi, will compete in all 12 events at Milan 2023.
The Milan competition is the only world championship to fall in the Olympic fencing qualifying ranking window, which started on April 3, 2023, and ends on April 1, 2024.
Bhavani Devi, currently ranked 28th in the world, is the only Indian fencer to compete at Olympics. The 29-year-old represented India at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Last month, Bhavani Devi won India’s first-ever medal at the Asian Fencing Championships after beating the reigning world champion and world No. 1 Misaki Emura of Japan in the quarter-finals for the bronze.
India, however, are yet to win a medal at the world fencing championships since it began in 1921.
Fencing World Championships 2023: India squad
Men’s sabre: Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Abhay Krishna Shinde, Karan Singh, Vishal Thapar
Women’s sabre: C. A. Bhavani Devi, Josna Christy Jose, Jagmeet Kaur, Rishika Khajuria
Men’s epee: Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey, Sherjin Rajendran Shanthimol, Udaivir Singh
Women’s epee: Ena Arora, Jyotika Dutta, Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer, Taniksha Khatri
Men’s foil: Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathiresan, Akash Kumar
Women’s foil: Maria Akshita Ciril Rajdev, Jenisha Naser Raj Viji, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj, Kanagalakshmi Vinayakam Paranjothi
Where to watch Fencing World Championships 2023 live in India
Live streaming of the Fencing World Championships 2023 will be on Olympics.com, FIE's YouTube channel and official website. There will be no telecast of the event on any TV channels in India.
Fencing World Championships 2023 full schedule and live India start times
All in Indian Standard Times (IST)
July 22, Saturday
Men’s sabre individual and women’s epee individual eliminators - 12:30 PM
July 23, Sunday
Men’s epee individual and women’s foil individual eliminators - 12:30 PM
July 24, Monday
Men’s foil individual and women’s sabre individual eliminators - 12:30 PM
July 25, Tuesday
Men’s sabre individual and women’s epee individual, Table of T64 – final - 12:00 PM
July 26, Wednesday
Men’s epee individual and women’s foil individual, Table of T64 – final - 12:00 PM
July 27, Thursday
Men’s foil and Women’s sabre individual Table of T64 – final - 1:30 PM
Men’s sabre – Women’s epee team, Table up to T8 eliminators - 1:30 PM
July 28, Friday
Men’s epee – Women’s foil team, Table up to T8 eliminators - 12:30 PM
Men’s sabre – Women’s epee team, DE of T8, semifinals and & finals - 1:30 PM
July 29, Saturday
Women’s sabre – men’s foil team up to T8 eliminators - 12:30 PM
Men’s epee – Women’s foil team DE of T8, semifinals and finals - 1:30 PM
July 30, Sunday
Men’s foil – Women’s sabre team DE of T8, semifinals and finals - 2:00 PM