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The American women went 1-2 in the individual foil event, USA Fencing's first medals at the Paris Olympics. Kentucky native Lee Kiefer wins gold in fencing at 2024 Olympics in Paris Skip to main ...
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
Lauren Scruggs made Team USA Olympic history by winning the silver medal in women's foil fencing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She faced teammate Lee Kiefer in the final.
The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featured the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with nine three-minute bouts to five points; the winning team was the one that reaches 45 total points first or was leading after the end of the nine bouts.
Star fencer Lauren Scruggs knew that she would be making history heading into her gold medal matchup against fellow American Lee Kiefer in the women's individual foil final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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.
Fencing was done to 15 touches or to the completion of three three-minute rounds if neither fencer reaches 15 touches by then. At the end of time, the higher-scoring fencer was the winner; a tie resulted in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period.
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.