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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.
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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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
She also was the first woman in fencing history to compete in pants. [3] To advance her fencing, de Tuscan travelled to New York to train with Giorgio Santelli. [1] Leading up to the 1936 Olympic Games, de Tuscan won the Amateur Fencers League of America title in foils in 1936. She went on to compete in the women's foil at the Olympics. [1]
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.