Kazakhstan's men's epee team won the team event at the Fencing World Cup stage in Casablanca, Morocco, infohub.kz reports.
Kirill Prokhodov, Vadim Sharlaimov, Alexander Fedotov and Kirill Pavlov secured the gold for the national team. Along the way, the Kazakh epeeists defeated Turkey (45:20), Hong Kong (45:28), Egypt (45:40) and France (45:39).
In the final, the Kazakhs faced Russia. The decisive bout ended 45:40 in favor of Kazakhstan, which is coached by Ukrainian specialist Alexander Gorbachuk.
In the parallel women's team event, Kazakhstan exited in the round of 16 and finished 14th overall. The team was represented by Irina Bakaldina, Vladislava Andreeva, Darya Samodelkina and Sofia Nikolaichuk.
In the individual competition, three Kazakh epeeists reached the quarterfinals but lost at that stage. Elmir Alimzhanov, Kirill Prokhodov and Vadim Sharlaimov ultimately placed sixth through eighth.
Meanwhile, a Fencing World Cup sabre stage was held in Oran, Algeria. Kazakhstan's men's team of Kuanysh Yergashbay, Nazarbay Sattarkhan, Artyom Sarkisyan and Artur Chuprakov finished eighth in the team event. In the women's competition, Aigerim Sarybay, Anastasia Gulik and Karina Dospay placed 16th.