Hong Kong, July 22 -- Indian fencing achieved a monumental milestone on the opening day of the Senior World Fencing Championships 2026, held at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. The flagship nine-day global tournament, featuring over 1,000 elite athletes from more than 100 nations, kicked off its Day 1 schedule with intense qualification rounds in Men's Individual Foil and Women's Individual Epee, according to a press release.

India's 24-member national contingent--comprising 12 men and 12 women across all three fencing disciplines--made an immediate statement as Epee fencers Taniksha Khatri and Prachi Lohan created history by becoming the first-ever Indian women's Epee fencers to qualify for the Main Table of 64 (Direct Elimination Round...