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Women's fencing is the practice of fencing by women. It has been present at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1924 Olympics in Paris . Foil was then the only weapon used and Danish Ellen Osiier became the first female Olympic champion in fencing.
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 ...
Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt have been dubbed the first couple of U.S. Fencing. Kiefer and Meinhardt are both competing in their fourth, and possibly final, Olympic Games as a couple in Paris ...
Games and toys, or types of play, in many cultures are gender (and age) neutral, but some are given a gender role (masculine or feminine).Games given a gender role are exclusive or segregationist, and a game labelled as such is often considered by both children and adults as appropriate for boys or girls but not both.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1996 Atlanta details: Laura Flessel France: Valérie Barlois France: Gyöngyi Szalay Hungary: 2000 Sydney details: Tímea Nagy Hungary: Gianna Hablützel-Bürki Switzerland: Laura Flessel-Colovic France: 2004 Athens details: Tímea Nagy Hungary: Laura Flessel-Colovic France: Maureen Nisima France: 2008 Beijing details ...
For boys, the sports are fencing and golf. For girls, they are fencing, golf, and gymnastics. [2] Student athletes may also be state champions. The sports that offer individual state championships are bowling, cross country, fencing, golf, gymnastics, tennis (singles and doubles), swimming, diving, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling.