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Japan won its second fencing gold medal of the Paris Olympics by beating Italy 45-36 in the last bout of the Games in the men's team foil final Sunday. Japan's alternate, Yudai Nagano, came in for ...
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 ...
South Korean fencer Oh Sanguk held on against an opponent considered one of the greatest of all time to win his second gold medal of the Paris Olympics in men's team saber on Wednesday. Oh, a ...
The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featured 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.
The men's team foil returned in 1920 and has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1920 except 2008 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories). The reigning Olympic champion is Russia (Aleksey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin, and Timur Safin).
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.
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.
The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. [1] Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021 ...