At the World Fencing Championships, Italy's men's foil team wins gold against the USA.

In the team event, the Italians Guillaume Bianchi, Filippo Macchi and Tommaso Marini with Alessio Foconi beat the Americans 43-42.

A victory, the first in this edition of the World Championship, achieved with a last-gasp effort.

Combo Martina Favaretto, Anna Cristino and Luca Curatoli (GettyImages)

Luca Curatoli, Anna Cristino, and Martina Favaretto won bronze medals at the World Fencing Championships underway in Tbilisi, Georgia . These are Italy's first medals in the championships, which began last Tuesday and concludes next Wednesday. In the men's sabre event, Curatoli, who celebrates his 31st birthday today, was defeated 15-13 by France's Jean Philippe Patrice.

Cristino, in the women's foil, also lost to the French, eliminated by Pauline Ranvier 15-11. Also in the women's foil, Favaretto was defeated by the American Lee Kiefer, who won in the semifinals 15-10 and then defeated Frenchman Pauline Ranvier 15-4 in the final to win the gold.

At the World Championships, two bronze medals are awarded to both fencers defeated in the semifinals, as there is no third-place match. The rules are different at the Olympics, where there is a third-place match and a single bronze medal for each event.

Curatoli dedicates the medal to gymnast Lorenzo Bonicelli, who underwent cervical vertebrae surgery and is in a medically induced coma after falling to the ground during a rings routine at the Universiade. "I feel very strongly about Lorenzo, as do the entire national fencing team. I dedicate the medal to him and wish him a good recovery. We hope to embrace him soon," emphasizes the fencer from Campania, who also expresses his "condolences" to the families of the three workers who died today in Naples.