Ministry of Culture and Sport Affairs of Uzbekistan, National Olympic Committee, Uzbekistan Fencing Federation organized the tournament in cooperation with the International Fencing Federation (FIE).
Over 1,000 athletes from over 100 countries of the world are attending the tournament, which will end on 9 April 2015.
The competition of Men’s epee and Women’s epee were held on the first day of the event. Myeongki Kim of South Korea won the gold medal in the Men’s epee competition. Jakub Jurka of the Czech Republic clinched the second place. Bence Bende of Hungary and Loic Beaulieau of Canada claimed the bronze medals.
Alexandra Predescu of Romania defeated Kinga Nagy of Hungary in the final of the Women’s epee competition to win the gold medal. Eleonora De Marchi of Italy and Alla Gryschyk became the bronze medalists.