Favourites
- Italy (G1-S3-B6) have won 10 world championships medals in this event. The team won the world title in 2009. It won its first Olympic gold medal in the women’s team epee event when it beat France 30-29 in overtime at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Alberta Santuccio (ITA) scored the winning touch against Auriane Mallo-Breton (FRA). The Italians lost the final at the last two world championships (2022, 2023) and they can become the third team to reach the final at three successive world championships, after Hungary (8, 1989-1997) and France (4, 2005-2008).
- China (G3-S5-B2) has won 10 medals in the women’s team epee event at world championships. They defeated Republic of Korea in this event at the Asian championships in Bali in June. It was China’s first continental victory since 2018, when it won gold at the Asian Games and at the Asian championships. Only Hungary (8), France (4) and Russia (4) have won more world titles in this event gold medals than China (3). Only Hungary (11) and France (8) have contested as many finals in this event as China (8).
- Republic of Korea won its first world title in the women’s team epee in 2022, and Sera Song (KOR) won the women’s epee individual that year. It is the only world championships in this century, in which the same a fencer won the women’s individual and team epee.
- France’s last world championships medal in the women’s team epee was gold in Beijing in April 2008. They won the women’s team epee event at the European championships in Tbilisi in 2017.
- Poland claimed Olympic bronze in the women’s team epee at Paris 2024, one year after it won the world title in this event in Milan in 2023.
- Ukraine defeated Switzerland in the women’s team epee final of the European championships in Genoa in June. At the world championships, they claimed three medals in this event, all bronze: 1993, 1998 and 2015. Ukraine won the women’s team epee event at the junior world championships in Wuxi this year. Emily Conrad (UKR) was part of that team. Her mother Natalia Conrad (UKR) won the epee individual world title in 2003.
- Switzerland took bronze in this event at the world championships in 1989 and silver in 2001. Since that silver medal in 2001, Switzerland has won only one more medal in a women’s event: a bronze medal for Laura Staehli in the women’s epee individual in 2018.
- United States won the women’s team epee at the Pan American championships in Rio de Janeiro in June. USA has won one medal in this event at the world championships: gold in 2018.
Various
- Hungary has won a record eight gold medals and 13 total medals (G8-S3-B2) in this event at the world championships, but it won its last medal in 2005 (silver).
- Three women won gold in the individual and team epee events in the same year: Mariann Horvath (HUN, 1991 & 1992), Laura Flessel-Colovic (FRA, 1998) and Sera Song (KOR, 2022).
- Hadley Husisian (USA) could become the first woman to win a medal in this event on her birthday (born on 26 July 2003).
- At the age of 45, Irina Embrich (EST, born 12 July 1980) can become the first woman over 40 to win a medal in this event. Embrich won her first world championships medal in this event in 2002 (silver), when she was 22 years old. In contrast, Canada’s Julia Yin (born 17 July 2009) will be just 16 years old when this event starts. She won the women’s epee individual gold medal at the junior world championships in Wuxi in April this year.
- Gyöngyi Szalay (HUN) and Hajnalka Kiraly-Picot (HUN/FRA) each won seven world titles in this event. Kiraly-Picot won four gold medals with Hungary and claimed three world titles competing for France.