Wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani wins third World Cup title

Georgia’s champion wheelchair fencer Irma Khetsuriani has added a third World Cup win to her growing list of accolades and awards after she triumphed at a prestigious competition in Poland's capital Warsaw last weekend.

Khetsuriani won the main trophy at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup after defeating Anastasia Kastsiuchkova of Belarus in a close final match that finished with a score 15-14.

Earlier in the tournament the Georgian athlete eliminated Poland's Patrycja Hareza in the semi-final match.

The Warsaw World Cup event concluded with Khetsuriani's win on Saturday. Photo from press office of the Georgian National Paralympic Committee.

Hareza and her compatriot Jadwiga Pacek finished joint third in the competition that featured eight female fencers from all over Europe competing in the Sabre category.

Khetsuriani took advantage of her versatile skills by also competing in the Foil category of the Warsaw tournament, and she finished sixth in the final classification.

The tournament finished on Saturday with the final match where Khetsuriani defeated Kastsiuchkova – a reversed result from a match earlier this year at the European Championships in Italy where the Belarusian took the continental title.

Saturday’s victory for Khetsuriani was the third time she has won the World Cup competition. This year the Paralympic fencer claimed gold at the Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Montreal, Canada in April.

Her maiden World Cup win came in Paris, France in October last year while the Georgian's medal collection also featured a silver from the 2015 World Championships in Egypt.