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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. [3]
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).
The 1996 tournament had vastly simplified the competition format into a single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match. 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.
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.
2024 Paris Olympics: Americans Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs win gold and silver in fencing ... gold medalist in women's individual foil from the 2020 Tokyo Games, who came out on top, defeating ...
PARIS – The fencer from the Golden Dome is golden again at the Olympic Games. In an all-America final, Notre Dame graduate Lee Kiefer defeated Lauren Scruggs 15-6 Sunday night at the Grand ...
She won the 2019 and 2023 USA Fencing Women's Foil National Championships, was ranked second in the world in 2021 in women's foil in the juniors, and won the 2022 NCAA national women's foil championship. Weintraub represented the United States at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's team foil, where she won a gold medal.
In foil fencing, Lee Kiefer and Lauren Scruggs ensured a 1-2 finish for Team USA in the semifinals by advancing to face each other in Sunday's final. When they got there, it was all Kiefer.