Favourites
- Marie-Florence Candassamy (FRA) won the world title in this event in Milan in 2023. She can join Mariann Horvath (HUN, 1991, 1992), Laura Flessel-Colovic (FRA, 1998, 1999) and Rossella Fiamingo (ITA, 2014, 2015) as fencers who have won this event a record two times at the world championships.
- Sera Song (KOR) could win her second world title in this event, after her victory in 2022. In 2022, Song became the third woman to win gold in the individual and team events in the women’s epee at the same world championships, after Horvath (HUN, 1991 & 1992), and Flessel-Colovic (FRA, 1998). Song is leading the FIE world rankings in the women’s epee. At three of the last six world championships the top ranked fencer won the world title: Fiamingo (2015), Navarria (2018) and Candassamy (2023). Song won the women’s individual epee title at the 2025 Asian championships in Bali in June. No woman has yet won the world title and Asian championship gold medal in this event in the same year.
- Eszter Muhari (HUN) claimed the Olympic bronze medal in this event at Paris 2024. She can win the first world championships medal in this event for Hungary since a bronze medal for Emese Szász-Kovács in 2013. The last Hungarian world champion in this event was Timea Nagy (HUN) in 2006. Muhari is the only woman to have won multiple World Cup or Grand Prix events in the 2024/25 season. She won in Barcelona (February) and in Marrakech (March).
- Aizanat Murtazaeva (AIN) won the women’s individual epee at the 2025 European championships in Genoa in June. the only woman to have won the world and European title in this event in the same year was Mariann Horvath in 1991.
- Katrina Lehis (EST) took silver in the women’s epee at the 2025 European championships. The women’s individual epee is the event in which Estonia has won most of its world championships medals: G2-S2-B3. Its last medal in this event was for Julia Beljajeva in 2017 (bronze).
- Rossella Fiamingo (ITA) won the women’s epee world title in 2014 and 2015. She could become the first woman to win three world titles in this event. Fiamingo (G2-S0-B1) also claimed bronze in 2022. She can join Flessel-Colovic (G2-S1-B3), Sophie Moressée (FRA, G0-S2-B2) and Britta Heidemann (GER, G1-S1-B2) as the women to have won at least four medals in this event.
- Giulia Rizzi (ITA) enters this world championships as the third-ranked fencer in the FIE rankings, and at the age of 36y-033d, she could win her first world championships medal. The oldest medal winners in this event are Mara Navarria (ITA, 38y-007d, bronze in 2023), Sonja Tol (NED, 36y-323d, bronze in 2009) and Timea Nagy (HUN, 36-042d, gold in 2006). For Nagy and Tol it was their first and only medal.
- Alberta Santuccio (ITA) took silver in this event at the 2023 world championships. The only woman to win the world title in this event after she had lost the final at the previous world championships was Italy’s Laura Chiesa: she won the world title in 1994 after she had lost the final in 1993.
- Hadley Husisian (USA) won the junior world title in the women’s epee in 2023. She can become the second USA woman to win a world championships medal in this event, after bronze for Courtney Hurley in 2018. Husisian (21y-362 on the day of the final 23 July) can become the youngest medal winner in this event at the world championships since Julia Beljajeva (21y-018d), who won gold in 2013.
- Kaylin Sin Yan Hsieh (HKG) can win the first world title for Hong Kong, China in any fencing event. Paris 2024 Olympic epee champion Vivian Man Wai Kong (HKG) took bronze in this event at the world championships in 2019 and 2022.
- Jingwen Yang (CHN) finished runner up to Sera Song in the women’s epee final at the 2025 Asian championships. China won the women’s individual epee world title once: Na Li in 2011.
Various
- Julia Beljajeva (EST) won the world title in this event in 2013, and she took bronze in 2017. The most years between a first and last medal in this event was 16 years, by Ana Maria Popescu (ROU): from 2002 (bronze) to 2018 (silver). She also claimed bronze in 2011. Beljajeva claimed a bronze medal in this event at the European championships in Tbilisi in 2017.
- Both finalists in this event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will not compete in Tbilisi: Vivian Man Wai Kong (gold) retired after the Paris Games, and Auriane Mallo-Breton (FRA, silver) announced her pregnancy earlier this year.
- Six of the last nine world titles in the women’s individual epee event were won by left-handed fencers, including Sera Song in 2022.
- No woman born in this century (from 1 January 2000) has won a medal in this event at the world championships. At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, bronze medal winner Eszter Muhari (born 30 September 2002) became the first Olympic medalist in this event who was born in this century.
- Julia Yin (CAN, born 17 July 2009) won the junior world title in Wuxi in April this year. She will have just celebrated her 16th birthday when the Tbilisi world championships begin.
- In contrast, Irina Embrich (EST, born 12 July 1980) will be 45 years old at the start of the competition. She won her first world championships medal in 2002 (silver in epee team). Embrich claimed silver (2006) and bronze (2007) in the individual epee.