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Women's fencing is the practice of fencing by women. It has been present at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1924 Olympics in Paris . Foil was then the only weapon used and Danish Ellen Osiier became the first female Olympic champion in fencing.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in fencing. Current Program. Foil, Individual ...
Fencing has a long history with universities and schools for at least 500 years. At least one style of fencing, Mensur in Germany, is practiced only within academic fraternities. Mensur is unique in its focus on ritualized dueling, where participants engage in controlled bouts designed to test their courage, endurance, and skill without the ...
Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are three forms of Olympic fencing: Foil — a light thrusting weapon; the valid target is restricted to the torso; double touches are not allowed.
Lee Kiefer—now the first American fencer in history to own three Olympic gold medals and the first American woman to win two fencing golds at a single Games—cried on the top of the podium ...
Julia Jones Pugliese, first U.S. women's intercollegiate fencing champion (1929), founded the Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (with Dorothy Hafner and Elizabeth Ross), first woman coach of an international U.S. fencing team, coached NYU women's team 1932–1938, and Hunter team 1956–1992
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Former Notre Dame fencer Lee Kiefer makes history with repeat gold-medal showing in women's foil at Paris Olympics.