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The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featureed 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.
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).
In the gold medal match for women's individual foil, one competitor had to win, and the other had to lose. ... medalist in women's individual foil from the 2020 Tokyo Games, who came out on top ...
It’s back-to-back gold medals for Lexington’s Lee Kiefer after she defeated fellow American Lauren Scruggs 15-6 in the women’s individual foil fencing finals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in ...
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.
Team USA's Lee Kiefer reacts as she competes in the women's foil team gold medal bout between Italy and USA during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Grand Palais in Paris on Aug. 1, 2024.
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Harvey won Canada's first Olympic medal in fencing after defeating Alice Volpi in the bronze medal match in the individual foil event. [8] [9] [10] She also competed in the women's team foil event, where Canada finished in fourth place after losing the bronze medal match to Japan.
American Lauren Scruggs made history at the Paris Olympics on Sunday when she took the silver medal in women’s foil fencing. ... Paris Olympics medals for Team LGBTQ is a powerful sign of our ...