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Italian female fencer Elisa Di Francisca during a fencing event. 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.
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Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. [1] Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. [2]The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing.
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
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2004 – women's foil team, women's sabre team; 2008 – men's foil team, women's épée team; 2012 – men's épée team, women's sabre team; 2016 – men's sabre team, women's foil team [citation needed] From 2020 Summer Olympics, all 12 fencing events were held, which means no World Championships are held on Olympic years. [2]
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1938 - In 1938, Helene Mayer won the Fencing Association's San Francisco Division men's title; two days later she was stripped of the title, as the Association adopted a rule banning competition between women and men, stating that since fencing involved physical contact, "a chivalrous man found it difficult to do his worst when he faced a woman ...