SEA Games 2025: 7th heaven for S’pore epee fencers, team match record haul from 2023

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The Singapore mens epee fencing team ahead of the final against Vietnam at Fashion Island Shopping Mall during the Thailand SEA Games in Bangkok on Dec 19, 2025.

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BANGKOK – Singapore’s fencers won their seventh gold medal at the 2025 SEA Games on Dec 19 to match their record haul from the 2023 edition.

At the Fashion Island Shopping Mall’s Island Hall, the quartet of Si To Jian Tong, Azfar Luqman Ong, Simon Lee and Bron Sheum secured gold in the men’s epee team final with a 44-34 victory over defending champions Vietnam.

It is also the Singapore contingent’s 50th gold medal at the biennial event, which ends with the closing ceremony on Dec 20.

There is an opportunity for the national fencers to win an eighth gold and make the 2025 campaign their best yet at the biennial event, with Amita Berthier, Maxine Wong, Kemei Cheung and Stephanie Lee looking to retain their women’s foil team title when they face the Philippines in the final on Dec 19.

Going into the final day of fencing in Thailand, Singapore had already won six gold medals, in the women’s individual and team epee, men’s individual and team foil, women’s individual sabre and the women’s individual foil.

Singapore’s current fencing tally at these Games is now seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

In 2023, Singapore finished as the Games’ top fencing nation with a record seven golds in