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The women's épée event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 at the Grand Palais strip. Sun Yiwen was a defending 2020 Olympic champion, but she was lost to Miho Yoshimura . Background
This was the 6th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1996 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). Estonia were defending champions, but they not qualify.
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).
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 National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified fencers in the women's épée. Nations were limited to three fencers each from 1996 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.
Giulia Rizzi (born 20 June 1989) is an Italian fencer, gold medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the team épée event. [1] She competed at the 2022 Mediterranean Games where she won a gold medal in the individual épée event. [2]
This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in fencing. Current Program. Foil, Individual. Games Gold ... Women's - 1924–2024. Rank Nation
This was the 6th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1996 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 Romania (Loredana Dinu, Simona Gherman, Simona Pop, and ...