Italy's Mara Navarria, the world's top-ranked women epeeist, claimed her first World Fencing Championships title on the fourth day of the 2018 edition of the event in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, on July 22.
In an interview, Mara Navarria expressed her excitement in claiming her first individual world title: "Winning the competition for me is a good goal, my first big goal."
Mara Navarria is widely known as a three-time winner of the World Cup and a two-time Grand Prix champion. When talking about how she could stay in such good form over the years, she said that experience is important.