Ukraine win their first gold medal at Paris 2024 with a thrilling victory in the women's sabre team event final over South Korea.
Ukraine took silver in the women's sabre team event at Rio 2016 but missed out on a medal in Tokyo three years agoUkraine won their first gold medal at Paris 2024 with a thrilling victory in the women's sabre team event final over South Korea.The Ukraine team had trailed 40-37, but Kharlan helped secure a 45-42 win, scoring 22 total touches across the final.
It was 33-year-old Kharlan's sixth Olympic medal in total and her second gold, having also won the team event title with Ukraine in 2008.Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko wrote on X: "Steel nerves! Incredible skill! A very intense competition, a fight to the very last seconds, great work of our athletes. Crazy emotions, a historic result.
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