SEA Games 2025: Singapore assured of gold after Amita Berthier, Maxine Wong both reach foil final

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Singapores Amita Berthier during the women’s individual foil event at the Island Hall, Fashion Island Shopping Mall, Bangkok on Dec 17.

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BANGKOK – Singapore’s fencers continued their golden charge at the 2025 SEA Games in Thailand on Dec 17, with another gold assured in women’s individual foil after Amita Berthier and Maxine Wong won their respective semi-finals against opponents from the Philippines.

They will meet in the final later in the day in a repeat of the decider won by Berthier in 2019.

At the Fashion Island Shopping Mall’s Island Hall, Wong beat Janna Allysah 15-8 in her semi-final, while Berthier came from behind to beat Samantha Kyle 15-14 after trailing 8-14.

Wong, the defending champion after prevailing in 2023, is gunning for her fifth Games gold. The 24-year-old also won the team foil gold in 2019, 2022 and 2023.

Meanwhile, Berthier, who turned 25 on Dec 15, has two individual foil golds from 2017 and 2019 as well as a team foil victory in 2019. She missed the 2022 and 2023 editions as she was pursuing a sociology degree at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.

A day earlier, Singapore’s fencers made it three wins out of three when Juliet Heng (women’s individual sabre),Raphael Tan (men’s individual foil gold) and Elle Koh (women’s individual epee) clinched Singapore’s first three fencing titles of these Games.