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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.
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 ...
Vadim Gutzeit, Ukrainian fencer (saber), Olympic champion, world championship silver and bronze; Grigory Kriss, épée, Olympic champion, 2× silver; David Tyshler, saber fencer, Olympic bronze; Iosif Vitebskiy, épée fencer, Olympic silver, 10x national champion, world champion; United States Lee Kiefer General George Patton Soren Thompson ...
She calls Lexington, Kentucky home, and spent more than two years in medical school at the University of Kentucky before taking a break prior to the 2020 Olympics to focus entirely on fencing.
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). [3]
The U.S. men's fencing team ranks 16th overall in the world with 20 medals since the first Olympic games in 1896. They've earned seven silver medals, 12 bronze medals and only one gold by an ...
Riverdale native Jacqueline (Jackie) Dubrovich competed in the 2020 Summer Olympic games in fencing held in 2021 in Tokyo. She is hoping to make the 2024 team to represent the United States in ...
Nick Itkin (/ ˈ ɪ t k ɪ n / IT-kin; born October 9, 1999) [3] is an American foil fencer.He is a two-time Olympic bronze medalist, two-time World Championship individual medalist, 2023 Pan American Games team gold medalist, 2024 Pan American Games team gold medalist, and two-time NCAA individual champion.