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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.
United States’ women’s foil team became their country’s first to win gold in any team event, and the first non-European team to win gold. [30] Ukraine became the first nation to win multiple women’s team sabre gold medals. [31] Italy won its first gold in women's team Épée. [32] Czech Republic won its first medal in men's team Épée ...
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.
2 All-time medal table - Women's - 1924–2024. 3 References. ... International Olympic Committee results database This page was last edited on 13 August ...
Japan qualified one women's épée fencer through normal individual qualification, but did not use host quota places to complete a women's épée team. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020.
The women's épée was one of ten fencing events on the fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on 21 July 1996. 48 fencers from 24 nations competed.