Fencing Men's Epe Yamada Yu wins Grand Prix tournament first championship March 9 17:16
The Fencing and Epe Grand Prix tournament was held in Hungary on the 8th, and Yu Yamada won the boy's first title. This is the second Japanese player to win the Grand Prix, following Kazuyasu Minobu last year.
The Fencing Grand Prix tournament is the only event in the world ranking points after the Olympic and World Championships.
The final tournament was held in Budapest, Hungary on the 8th of the Epe Grand Prix tournament, and Yamada, who ranked 7th in the world rankings, won a stable battle and advanced to the final.
In the final, he competed against a powerful French player who won the Adult World Championship, and won his first victory in the Grand Prix by winning 15 to 11.
As a result, Yamada ranked second in the world.
Fencing's representative for the Tokyo Olympics was determined based on points earned during the one-year international tournament until next month, and Yamada took the lead in the national competition in this championship.
Yamada is 25 years old from Mie Prefecture.
With a dynamic attack utilizing a tall 84 cm tall, it grew rapidly, winning the Asian Championships last year and the All Japan Championship.
This season, he was on the podium for the first time in third place at the Grand Prix in Qatar in January.
Minobu, who was the first Japanese player to win this tournament last year, was fifth.