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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.
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.
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).
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 ...
Jul 28, 2024; Paris, France; Lee Kiefer (USA) celebrates with coach Amgad Khazbak after winning the women’s foil gold medal bout during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Grand Palais.
She became the third woman to win two or more Olympic golds in foil. The others are Italy’s Valentina Vezzali (2004-08-12) and Hungary’s Ilona Elek (1936-48). After the winning point, Kiefer ...
Star fencer Lauren Scruggs knew that she would be making history heading into her gold medal matchup against fellow American Lee Kiefer in the women's individual foil final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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.