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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).
The 1996 tournament had vastly simplified the competition format into a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match. 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.
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.
In the gold medal match for women's individual foil, one competitor had to win, and the other had to lose. ... medalist in women's individual foil from the 2020 Tokyo Games, who came out on top ...
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.
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.
This past year was filled with champions galore as Team USA showed up in Paris for the 2024 Games prepared for total domination. Nearly 600 U.S. athletes competed to bring home 126 medals.