Ukraine's world champion Olga Kharlan won gold in Salt Lake City ©Getty Images

World champion Olga Kharlan won gold at the the International Fencing Federation Women's Sabre World Cup in Salt Lake City.

The Ukraine fencer, seeded second, beat China’s Jiarui Qian 15-9 in the final at Salt Palace Convention Center.

Bronze medals went to South Korea’s Seo Ji-yeon beaten 15-14 in her semi-final against Qian, and Manon Brunet,

The French fencer lost 15-9 to Kharlan, who has won four world titles and two Olympic bronze medals.

Russia's top seed and Olympic silver medallist Sofia Velikaya, left, went out in the round-of-16 at the FIE Women's Sabre World Cup in Salt Lake City ©Getty Images
Russia's top seed and Olympic silver medallist Sofia Velikaya, left, went out in the round-of-16 at the FIE Women's Sabre World Cup in Salt Lake City ©Getty Images

Olympic silver medallist and top seed Sofya Velikaya of Russia was unexpectedly beaten in the round-of-16.

Velikaya, a two-time individual world champion who was part of the Russian squad which won Rio 2016 team gold, lost 15-13 to France's Sarah Noutcha.

Noutcha’s progress ended in the quarter-finals, however, as she was beaten 15-14 by Seo.

A team competition will round off the World Cup tomorrow.