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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.
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.
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 ...
Maitre Michel Sebastiani, coached fencing at Princeton University 1982–2006, and before that coached fencing at Brooklyn College, New York University (NYU), and Cornell. Coached his teams to 11 national championships. In 1994 and again in 2006 was named the most outstanding Coach of the Year by U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA ...
The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at ) Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X
The Fencing World Cup is an international fencing competition held by the International Fencing Federation. In each weapon (Men's and Women's Épée , Sabre and Foil ), three Grand Prix, five World Cup events and several satellite events are contested each season.
At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events. [1]
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1904 St. Louis details Mixed team (ZZX) Ramón Fonst Albertson Van Zo Post Manuel Díaz United States (USA) Charles Tatham Charles Townsend Arthur Fox: None awarded: 1908–1912: not included in the Olympic program: 1920 Antwerp details Italy (ITA) Aldo Nadi Nedo Nadi Abelardo Olivier Pietro Speciale Rodolfo Terlizzi ...