The last competition of the season is being held in the Thai city as part of the 2025 World Abilitysport Games. 

The World Cup has attracted a lot of interest from around the world. With more than 20 countries and 140 fencers from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe – and a refugee athlete – it will be one of the biggest in a non-Paralympic or qualification year as athletes aim to end their season on a high. Subject to classification, three fencers from Egypt will represent the African country for the first time in a World Cup. 

You can watch live with expert commentary from former Para fencer, Lauryn DeLuca. 

It has been a busy year, highlighted by the World Championships in Iksan, South Korea, and four other World Cups. 

Home hero and Paralympic champion Saysunee Jana will step onto the piste as the world No.1 from both the women’s epee and foil category B. Jana grabbed her latest world title in epee in September and was also victorious at the last World Cup in Solo, Indonesia later in the month. 

Teammate Visit Kingmanaw has followed in Jana’s footsteps and continues to prove he has the potential to be the next big thing in Thai Para fencing. He grabbed men’s epee category B silver in Iksan and swept the board in Solo with a medal from each weapon. 

Elsewhere in the competition, in the women’s epee category A, the latest chapter in the developing rivalry between South Korea’s Hyo Kyeong Kwon and Great Britain’s Gemma Collis could be written. 

Entering as the respective world No.1 and No.2, Paralympic silver medallist Kwon and Collis have faced each other three times in 2025. The most notable of these clashes came during the gold medal match in Solo when Kwon took a slim one-point victory – but only after the clock ran-out. 

Poland’s Paralympic and World Championships silver medallist Kinga Drozdz headlines the women’s sabre category A. Drozdz will be joined by Georgia’s Paris 2024 bronze medallist Nina Tibilashvili.  

Both women have enjoyed a successful season whilst Australia’s Matilda’s Chesterton follows on from her international debut in Solo. The 14-year-old is one of the youngest fencers to ever grace the pistes and has her eyes fixed firmly on the Brisbane 2032 Paralympic Games. 

Speaking of upcoming Paralympics, LA 2028 will of course take place first. The world celebrated 1,000 days to go on Wednesday (19 November) and from Thursday, Jataya Taylor, Ellen Geddes and William Schoonover will compete as the USA’s top ranked fencers. 

Geddes is 10th in the women’s epee category B whilst Taylor and Schoonover are 13th and 17th in the men’s and women’s epee category A, respectively. 

In the men’s, Olegs Garkuls-Gurevics will be aiming to cap a breakthrough 12 months on a high. After winning his first World Cup gold in Pisa, Italy, almost exactly one year ago, the Latvian went on to finish on the podium twice more, securing himself the top spot in the world rankings in the category B. 

The 2025 Para Fencing World Cup will take place from 20-23 November and will feature individual events in the men’s and women’s epee, foil and sabre category A and B and mixed team events across all three weapons. 

The mixed team events were introduced as part of the evolution of Para fencing, with World Para Fencing aiming to keep the sport exciting and relevant. 

Competition will start on Thursday (20 November) with the men’s foil and women’s sabre category A and B. Team events will take place on Sunday (23 November). 

The World Cup is being held as part of the 2025 World Abilitysport Games which also features shooting Para sport and athletics from 19-23 November.