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The 2024 tournament continued to use that format. 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.
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).
A four-time Olympian, the 30-year-old Kiefer first competed in the 2012 London Games, finishing fifth, and later became the first U.S. fencer, male or female, to win a gold medal in foil at the ...
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.
Team USA fencer Lauren Scruggs won silver in women's foil. Below, she tells 'WH' about becoming the first Black fencing medalist and her post-Olympic plans.
Kiefer is the first American to win a gold medal in the individual foil and the first Asian American woman to win a fencing gold in general.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 2008 Beijing details Ukraine (UKR) Olha Zhovnir Olha Kharlan Halyna Pundyk Olena Khomrova China (CHN) Bao Yingying Huang Haiyang Ni Hong Tan Xue United States (USA) Sada Jacobson Rebecca Ward Mariel Zagunis: 2012 London: not included in the Olympic program: 2016 Rio de Janeiro details Russia (RUS) Sofya Velikaya Yana ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified fencers in the women's foil. Nations were limited to three fencers each from 1928 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.