On February 16, the China Sports Lottery 2025 Guangzhou Fencing Open ended in Huangpu, Guangzhou. As a certified event of the Chinese Fencing Association, this competition attracted 2,000 fencing enthusiasts from all over the country to compete on the same stage, and the athletes on the field opened a wonderful sword dance for 2025 with the spirit of tenacious struggle, fully demonstrating the sportsmanship of "faster, higher, stronger".

The tournament includes three types of swords: foil, epee and sabre, which are divided into 8 groups, including U6, U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, U17+, and veteran. This contest of speed and wisdom not only showed the unique charm of fencing, but also added a strong touch to Guangzhou's sports industry.

As one of the Olympic Games with a long history of sports, fencing is both competitive and entertaining, and is welcomed by more and more young athletes, among which athletes from Hong Kong said that under the influence of Olympic champions Jiang Minxian and Zhang Jialong, and the main venue of the 15th Fencing Project is also in Hong Kong, now Hong Kong has a very strong atmosphere of learning fencing, and hopes that Guangzhou can hold more high-level fencing events to strengthen the exchanges between athletes from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, which is conducive to rapidly improving the competitive level of athletes.

Zhang Yongchun, President of Guangzhou Fencing Association, said: "The Guangzhou Fencing Open has been held for many years, which not only provides a high-level competition platform for fencing enthusiasts, but also injects new vitality into the development of fencing. In the future, we will continue to promote the upgrading of the competition and help the popularization and professional development of fencing. ”

This competition is strongly supported by China Sports Lottery. China Sports Lottery has always adhered to the issuance tenet of "from the people, for the people", and raised the community chest for the country in a responsible way. Since its unified issuance in 1994, it has raised more than 890 billion yuan in public welfare funds, which have provided solid support for the development of China's public welfare undertakings and sports, not only helping the Chinese delegation to achieve great success in previous international sports events, but also widely invested in the fields of national fitness, youth sports development and stadium facilities construction, so that sports can truly become an important part of people's happy life.

Guangzhou Sports Lottery will never forget the original intention and responsibility of public welfare, in the promotion of social progress, the transmission of positive energy on the road to "forge ahead", and continue to meet the people's yearning for a better life.

Text: Hao Zai, Su Su / Photo courtesy of the Organizing Committee