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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.
The men's team foil returned in 1920 and has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1920 except 2008 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories). The reigning Olympic champion is Russia (Aleksey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin, and Timur Safin).
Zappeion hosted the fencing events for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Schermzaal: fencing hall for the 9th Olympiad, Amsterdam (1928) St Kilda Town Hall hosted the fencing events for the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Olympic Green Convention Center hosted the fencing events for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Fencing is slightly unusual in that no one has to fence for third place. Instead, two bronze medals are given to the losers of the semi-final round. The exception to this is team events at international level, and individual events at the Olympic Games where a 3rd place play-off must be fenced.
Allegory of fencing by Václav Česák, presented to the Olympic Museum by the International Fencing Federation in celebration of its centenary. The International Fencing Federation (Fédération Internationale d'Escrime) is the heir of the Société d'encouragement de l'escrime founded in France in 1882, which took part in the global movement of structuring sport. [4]
The competitions on the calendar are divided into five categories. All earn points counting for the world cup according to a pre-established coefficient: coefficient 1 for the world cup events and zone championships, coefficient 1.5 for the grand prix, coefficient 2.5 for the world championships and coefficient 3 for the Olympic Games.
It returned in 2008 and 2012 but was omitted again in 2016 (2008 through 2016 were rotational years when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories). Women's team foil returns again in 2020. Since 1992, the event was only won by Italy and Russia.
The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. [1] Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021 ...