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Women's fencing is the practice of fencing by women. It has been present at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1924 Olympics in Paris . Foil was then the only weapon used and Danish Ellen Osiier became the first female Olympic champion in fencing.
Fencing is one of the few sports that have been featured in every modern Olympic Games, and for the first time female competitors competed individually using the sabre. The Lexan window mask, showing the athletes' faces, was used for the first time at these Olympics.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1996 Atlanta details: Laura Flessel France: Valérie Barlois France: Gyöngyi Szalay Hungary: 2000 Sydney details: Tímea Nagy Hungary: Gianna Hablützel-Bürki Switzerland: Laura Flessel-Colovic France: 2004 Athens details: Tímea Nagy Hungary: Laura Flessel-Colovic France: Maureen Nisima France: 2008 Beijing details ...
Fencing has a long history with universities and schools for at least 500 years. At least one style of fencing, Mensur in Germany, is practiced only within academic fraternities. Mensur is unique in its focus on ritualized dueling, where participants engage in controlled bouts designed to test their courage, endurance, and skill without the ...
Lee Kiefer—now the first American fencer in history to own three Olympic gold medals and the first American woman to win two fencing golds at a single Games—cried on the top of the podium ...
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.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 2010 Singapore: Europe 1 Yana Egorian Russia Marco Fichera Italy Camilla Mancini Italy Leonardo Affede Italy Alberta Santuccio Italy Edoardo Luperi Italy: Europe 2 Anja Musch Germany Nikolaus Bodoczi Germany Victoria Alexeeva Russia Richard Hubers Germany Martyna Swatowska Poland Burak T. Babaoglu Turkey: Americas 1 ...
The 1904 Olympics Games featured a fourth discipline of fencing known as singlestick, but it was dropped after that year and is not a part of modern fencing. Competitive fencing was one of the first sports to be featured in the Olympics and, along with athletics, cycling, swimming, and gymnastics, has been featured in every modern Olympics.