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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.
A three-time Olympian, Kim is a 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist and 2012 individual Olympic champion. Kim is the first South Korean woman to win an Olympic gold medal in fencing and the second South Korean to win any Olympic medal in fencing after Nam Hyun-hee 's silver medal in individual women's foil at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games .
0–9. Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics; Fencing at the 1900 Summer Olympics; Fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics; Fencing at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Italy's Martina Favaretto (L) and Team USA's Lee Kiefer (R) compete 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 ...
He competed with all three weapons (doing so in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics) but he was especially effective at Épée, where he was 1958 World Champion. He is one of only five fencers to compete in at least six Olympic Games. He was eight times British champion, winning three foil, four epee and one sabre title at the British Fencing Championships.
Led by Lee Kiefer, the United States defeated Italy 45-39 to win the first team gold medal in U.S. fencing history. ... Olympic news. Team USA fencing scored big Thursday, defeating Italy 45-39 ...
After first giving free fencing lessons to underserved youths in Manhattan, in 1991, he partnered with the Fencers Club of Manhattan to launch the Peter Westbrook Foundation, with reported ...
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).