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The 40th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2010 and concluded in August 2011 at the 2011 World Fencing Championships held in Catania, Italy.
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Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre ; each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules. Most competitive fencers specialize in one discipline. The modern sport gained prominence near the end of the 19th century and is based on the traditional skill set of swordsmanship. The Italian school altered the historical European martial art of classical fencing, and the French school later refined that system. Scoring points in a fencing competition is done by making contact with an opponent.
The Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, commonly known by the acronym FIE, is the international governing body of Olympic fencing. Today, its head office is at the Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland. The FIE is composed of 157 national federations, each of which is recognized by its country's Olympic Committee as the sole representative of Olympic-style fencing in that country.
British Fencing (BF), formerly the British Fencing Association is the national governing body (NGB) for the Olympic sport of fencing in the British Isles.
Matthias Behr is a former German foil fencer. He won a gold medal and three silvers at three Olympic Games.
The FIE Fencing World Cup is an international fencing competition held by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. In each weapon, three Grand Prix, five World Cup events and several satellite events are contested each season. The five top results as well as the Olympic Games or World Fencing Championships and zonal championships results are taken into account for each fencer's rankings. For teams, up to five World Cup events are held each year. The four top results as well as the Olympic Games or World Fencing Championships and zonal championships are taken into account for each country's rankings.
Andrea Cassarà is an Italian left-handed foil fencer, two-time individual European champion, 2011 individual world champion, and three-time Olympics medalist.
Richard Kruse is a former British right-handed foil fencer and four-time Olympian. In 2015, he was part of the Great Britain team that shocked Olympic champions Italy to win the first European Games gold in team foil, the first British gold medal in a team fencing event at World or European level for fifty years. He retired in 2021.
Qualification will be primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as of April 2, 2012, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments. Teams will be composed of 3 fencers. For teams to qualify they must be ranked in the top 16, if a continent is not ranked in the top 16 the next best placed country will take their spot.
Nicole Ross is an American foil fencer. Fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team, she won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title, and was a three time All-American. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in individual women's foil, coming in 25th, while in the team event she and her teammates came in sixth. At the 2018 World Championships, she and her Team USA teammates won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.
Larisa Viktorovna Korobeynikova is a Russian right-handed foil fencer, two-time team European champion, three-time team world champion, 2021 team Olympic champion, and 2021 individual Olympic bronze medalist.
Rostyslav Andriyovych Hertsyk is a Ukrainian foil fencer.
The 43rd FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2013 and concluded in July 2014 at the 2014 World Fencing Championships held in Kazan. The World Cup medals were awarded during the FIE's gala dinner in Rome at Palazzo Colonna on 22 November 2014.
The 41st FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2011 and concluded in August 2012 at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London.
The 39th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2009 and concluded in November 2010 at the 2010 World Fencing Championships held in Paris.
The 38th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2008 and concluded in October 2009 at the 2009 World Fencing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.
The 36th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2007 and concluded in September 2007 at the 2007 World Fencing Championships in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Nathalie Moellhausen is an épée fencer who initially represented Italy and now represents Brazil. In 2019, she became her country's first ever individual World Champion in épée at the Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. With the Italy team she won the team World championship in 2009 and team European championship in 2007. Representing Brazil, she won the women's individual épée World Champion title in 2019 in Budapest, Hungary.
The 35th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2005 and concluded in September 2006 at the 2006 World Fencing Championships in Turino, Italy.
The 44th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2014 and concluded in July 2015 at the 2015 World Fencing Championships held in Moscow.
Alanna Goldie is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
