The French foil fencers lost to Italy (45-39) in the final of the team event at the World Fencing Championships in Milan on Saturday.
This silver medal is the fourth podium for French fencing in these Worlds, the last before the Paris 2024 Olympics.
It is added to the coronation of Marie-Florence Candassamy in epee, the bronzes of Romain Cannone, still in epee and Enzo Lefort in foil.
In front of furious tifosi celebrating each touch as a goal at nearby San Siro, Ysaora Thibus came up against the defense of the last Italian torchbearer Francesca Palumbo, a substitute launched to keep the gap (40-34) catenaccio style.
It will therefore be necessary to wait another two years and the next Worlds to see French foil fencers crowned world team champions and succeed their illustrious predecessors of 1951.
