Iimura's Comeback | Bali 2025 Asian Championships Semifinal | Hong Kong v Japan | Men Foil Team 2025

On the Right: Japan
Japan is the reigning Olympic Champion and World Champion. Japan had defeated Hong Kong in the Bronze Medal Match of the 2024 Asian Championship, and the Semifinal of the 2023 World Championships. I do not remember if Hong Kong has ever defeated Japan in the past.

After the Olympics, Japan has not won any World Cups, coming closest with a silver at the 2025 Paris World Cup. In the later part of this season, SHIKINE Takahiro fell out of the Top 16 and has been replaced by BABA Shunsuke in team events.

Interestingly, IIMURA Kazuki anchored Team Japan to win the Paris Olympics, instead of SHIKINE Takahiro who traditionally anchors Japan (after the Tokyo Olympics - before then, MATSUYAMA Kyosuke usually anchored Japan). But since then Japan went back to having SHIKINE Takahiro anchor until SHIKINE Takahiro was taken off the team.

Individually, none of the Japanese fencers medalled this season, which might reflect how tired they are since MATSUYAMA, IIMURA (top 4 at Olympics), and SHIKINE had all medaled individually in the Season of 2023-2024.

On the Left: Hong Kong
Hong Kong has not medalled in any team events this season. CHEUNG Ka Long 張家朗 is reigning Olympic Champion, and CHOI Chun Yin Ryan 蔡俊彥 won the Individual Asian Championships and the 2025 Shanghai Grand Prix. CHEUNG Ka Long 張家朗 surprised everyone by being knocked out at the top 32 in the Individual Event, but it was against MO Ziwei who was taking a break after the Olympics. NG Lok Wang Lawrence has been chosen to fence in the team events for the first time in years. He beat both IIMURA Kazuki and LEE Kwanghyun in the Individual Event.


Team JAPAN
IIMURA Kazuki 飯村一輝
NAGANO Yudai 永野 雄大
BABA Shunsuke
MATSUYAMA Kyosuke 松山 恭助 (R)

Team HONG KONG
CHEUNG Ka Long 張家朗
CHOI Chun Yi Ryan 蔡俊彥
LEUNG Chin Yu 梁千雨
NG Lok Wang Lawrence (R)

0:00 Intro
0:43 CHEUNG Ka Long v NAGANO Yudai 永野 雄大
5:02 LEUNG Chin Yu 梁千雨 v IIMURA Kazuki 飯村一輝
11:10 CHOI Chun Yi Ryan 蔡俊彥 v BABA Shunsuke
15:11 LEUNG Chin Yu 梁千雨 v NAGANO Yudai 永野 雄大
25:40 CHEUNG Ka Long v MATSUYAMA Kyosuke 松山 恭助
33:38 CHOI Chun Yi Ryan 蔡俊彥 v IIMURA Kazuki 飯村一輝
38:01 LEUNG Chin Yu 梁千雨 v MATSUYAMA Kyosuke 松山 恭助
48:04 CHOI Chun Yi Ryan 蔡俊彥 v NAGANO Yudai 永野 雄大
52:54 CHEUNG Ka Long 張家朗 v IIMURA Kazuki 飯村一輝