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 153 national federations, each of which is recognized by its country's Olympic Committee as the sole representative of Olympic-style fencing in that country.
The World Fencing Championships is an annual competition in fencing organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime or FIE,. The world championships are, after the Olympic Games, the most prominent international competition in the sport of fencing. Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events.
Li Xiaoxia is a Chinese table tennis professional.
The European Fencing Championships is an annual top-level European fencing competition organized by the European Fencing Confederation.
Richard Kruse is a British fencer who specialises in the foil discipline. He has represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics four times. 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. On the 24th of July, 2018, he won silver in the World Fencing Championships individual men's foil event in Wuxi, China, winning the first medal for a British individual event fencer since Bill Hoskyns took silver for the men's Épée event in the World Championships in Paris in 1965.
Tomer Or is an Israeli foil fencer.
Irene Vecchi is an Italian sabre fencer. She earned a bronze medal in the 2013 World Championships and 2017 World Championships, an individual bronze at the 2013 European Championships and won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Fencing Championships. She has twice competed for Italy at the Olympics, in the women's sabre individual in 2012 and 2016 and in the women's team sabre in 2016.
Nicole Ross is an American female fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's foil but was defeated 8–15 in the second round. At the 2017 World Championships, she, Lee Kiefer, Margaret Lu and Nzingha Prescod won the silver medal in the women's team event.
Mannad Zeid is an Egyptian fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's sabre, but was defeated in the first round. He qualified for the Olympics by winning the African Championships.
Kim Jung-hwan is a South Korean fencer. He was number 1 in the world in 2016 in sabre. He is currently number 3 in the world.
Julia Beljajeva is an Estonian épée fencer, 2013 world champion and 2017 team world champion.
Eli Dershwitz is an American Olympic sabre fencer.
András Rédli is a Hungarian épée fencer. He is the 2014 European champion.
Anne-Elizabeth Stone, commonly known as Eliza Stone, is an American sabre fencer. Her results include an individual bronze medal at the 2018 World Fencing Championships and a team gold medal in the 2014 World Championships.
The 45th FIE Fencing World Cup began in October 2015 and concluded in August 2016 at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro. The International Fencing Federation being allocated only ten events by the International Olympic Committee, as opposed to twelve in major fencing competitions, two team events – in this case, women's team foil and men's team sabre — will be disputed as World Championships, held in Rio in April 2016. They also serve as test event for the organisation of the Olympic events.
The Philippines participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.
Oh Sang-uk is a South Korean sabre fencer. He is the individual gold medalist at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, 2019 Asian Fencing Championships, and 2019 Summer Universiade. He is also the team gold medalist at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, 2019 Summer Universiade, 2018 World Fencing Championships, 2018 Asian Games, 2017 World Fencing Championships, 2017 Asian Fencing Championships, and 2016 Asian Fencing Championships.
Roman Yuliyovych Svichkar is a Ukrainian épée fencer, bronze medallist in the 2018 World Fencing Championships.
Alanna Goldie is a Canadian fencer.
