The South Korean women's epee fencing team, the 2012 Olympic silver medalist, lost its first match at the Rio de Janeiro Games on Thursday.
The trio of Shin A-lam, Choi In-jeong and Kang Young-mi lost to the Estonian team of Erika Kirpu, Irina Embrich and Julia Beljajeva 27-26 at Carioca Arena 3.
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Shin and Choi were members of the silver medal-winning team at the 2012 London Olympics, but they played just one match before packing.
Shin, Choi and Kang also failed to win a medal earlier in the individual competition.
The defeat ends South Korea's fencing medal winning streak at two days. Park Sang-young won the men's individual epee gold on Tuesday and Kim Jung-hwan followed it up with bronze in the men's individual sabre Wednesday. (Yonhap)
