Fencing at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |
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Venue | Carioca Arena 3 |
Dates | 6–14 August 2016 |
No. of events | 10 |
Competitors | 212 from 48 nations |
Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
Épée | men | women |
Team épée | men | women |
Foil | men | women |
Team foil | men | |
Sabre | men | women |
Team sabre | women | |
The fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 212 fencers (an equal distribution between men and women; of which, eight fencers came from the host nation Brazil) competed in 10 events -- six individual and four team. [1]
Similar to 2008 and 2012, the International Fencing Federation maintained the format of ten events with a rotation system for team events. As a result, the men's team sabre and the women's team foil were dropped from the program only at these Games. [2] [3]
Qualification was primarily based on the FIE official rankings as of 4 April 2016, with further individual places available at four zonal qualifying tournaments. [4]
Date → | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 |
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Men's | Foil individual | Épée individual | Sabre individual | Foil team | Épée team | ||||
Women's | Épée individual | Sabre individual | Foil individual | Épée team | Sabre team | ||||
* Host nation (Brazil)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Russia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
2 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
3 | Italy | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
4 | France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
6 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | United States | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
8 | China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
10 | Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (10 nations) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual épée | Park Sang-young South Korea | Géza Imre Hungary | Gauthier Grumier France |
Team épée | France (FRA) Gauthier Grumier Yannick Borel Daniel Jérent Jean-Michel Lucenay | Italy (ITA) Enrico Garozzo Marco Fichera Paolo Pizzo Andrea Santarelli | Hungary (HUN) Gábor Boczkó Géza Imre András Rédli Péter Somfai |
Individual foil | Daniele Garozzo Italy | Alexander Massialas United States | Timur Safin Russia |
Team foil | Russia (RUS) [5] Timur Safin Artur Akhmatkhuzin Aleksey Cheremisinov | France (FRA) Jérémy Cadot Enzo Lefort Erwan Le Péchoux Jean-Paul Tony Helissey | United States (USA) Miles Chamley-Watson Race Imboden Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt |
Individual sabre | Áron Szilágyi Hungary | Daryl Homer United States | Kim Jung-hwan South Korea |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual épée | Emese Szász Hungary | Rossella Fiamingo Italy | Sun Yiwen China |
Team épée | Romania (ROU) Loredana Dinu Simona Gherman Simona Pop Ana Maria Popescu | China (CHN) Hao Jialu Sun Yiwen Sun Yujie Xu Anqi | Russia (RUS) Olga Kochneva Violetta Kolobova Tatiana Logunova Lyubov Shutova |
Individual foil | Inna Deriglazova Russia | Elisa Di Francisca Italy | Inès Boubakri Tunisia |
Individual sabre | Yana Egorian Russia | Sofiya Velikaya Russia | Olha Kharlan Ukraine |
Team sabre | Russia (RUS) Sofia Velikaya Yana Egorian Ekaterina Dyachenko Yuliya Gavrilova | Ukraine (UKR) Olha Kharlan Olena Kravatska Alina Komashchuk Olena Voronina | United States (USA) Monica Aksamit Ibtihaj Muhammad Dagmara Wozniak Mariel Zagunis |
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