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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.
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).
In the gold medal match for women's individual foil, one competitor had to win, and the other had to lose. ... in women's individual foil from the 2020 Tokyo Games, who came out on top, defeating ...
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.
The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts.
Lauren Scruggs closed strong to help the U.S. win women's team foil gold at the Olympics Thursday, giving teammate Lee Kiefer her third gold medal. U.S. women's fencing conquers nerves, upsets ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified fencers in the women's foil. Nations were limited to three fencers each from 1928 to 2004. However, the 2008 Games introduced a rotation of women's team fencing events with one weapon left off each Games; the individual event without a corresponding team event had the number of fencers per nation reduced to two.