“I am particularly pleased to congratulate our fencers on the victory in the team event at the World Championships,” the ministry’s press service quotes the Minister.
He noted that success at the world championship a year before the Olympics is particularly important. According to him, this will be an additional incentive to fight for the Olympic license.
“The competition, as this world championship showed, is very high. I believe in our athletes and coaches, I wish them only victories, ”added Kolobkov.
On the Russians account three gold awards, three silver and one bronze.
The second place in the standings was taken by the representatives of France (2-3-0), and the athletes from South Korea (2-0-2) closed the top three.
Earlier, the Russian women's saber fencing team won the World Cup gold.