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The 2024 tournament continued to use that format. Fencing was done to 15 touches or to the completion of three three-minute rounds if neither fencer reaches 15 touches by then. At the end of time, the higher-scoring fencer was the winner; a tie resulted in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period.
212 fencing quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, were available for Paris 2024, similar to the Tokyo 2020 roster size. Qualified NOCs could enter a maximum of eighteen fencers (nine per gender), with each consisting of a trio, whether men's or women's, across all weapon-based team events (foil, épée, and sabre).
The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featureed the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with nine three-minute bouts to five points; the winning team was the one that reaches 45 total points first or was leading after the end of the nine bouts.
2024 Paris Olympics: Americans Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs win gold and silver in fencing ... gold medalist in women's individual foil from the 2020 Tokyo Games, who came out on top, defeating ...
It marked the first All-American final in the individual foil in Olympic history, and for that U.S. fencing also must thank Scruggs, the 21-year-old Harvard student from Queens, N.Y.
Anne Cebula, 27, a Brooklyn native and épéeist (the three weapons used in competitive fencing are the épée, foil, and saber), didn’t always imagine she’d be a fencer.
On March 17, 2024, Scruggs qualified for the Paris Olympic Games by earning bronze at the Absolute Fencing Gear FIE Grand Prix in Washington, D.C. At the Games, she won the silver medal in the women's foil event, defeating Italian fencer Arianna Errigo and Canadian fencer Eleanor Harvey , among others, before losing 15–6 in the final to ...
Team USA's Lee Kiefer reacts as she competes in the women's foil team gold medal bout between Italy and USA during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris on Aug. 1, 2024 ...