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 | |
This section tabulates the heads of qualification in a form suitable to be filled in as events progress. The full qualification rules [1] for fencing published by FIE contain intricate conditions too lengthy for inclusion in Wikipedia. |
This article details the qualifying phase for fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics . Qualification was primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as of April 4, 2016, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.
For the team events, 8 teams qualified in each event. Each team must be composed of 3 fencers. The top 4 ranked teams qualified. The next best ranked team from each zone (Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Oceania) qualified as long as it was ranked in the top 16. If a zone had no teams ranked between 5th and 16th, the best placed nation not already qualified would be selected regardless of zone. [1]
For individual events with corresponding team events, the 3 fencers from the team event qualified for individual competition automatically. 7 more places were awarded based on the rankings (ignoring fencers from countries with team qualifications and considering only the top fencer from each country): the top 2 fencers from each of Europe, Asia-Oceania, and the Americas, and the top 1 fencer from Africa, qualified. 4 more places (1 per zone) were awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event were eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments. [1]
For individual events without corresponding team events, the top 14 fencers in the rankings (adjusted to include only the top 2 fencers per country) qualified. The next 2 best ranked fencers from each zone (but from different countries) also qualified. 10 spots were allocated through zone qualifying tournaments (4 for Europe, 3 for Asia-Oceania, 2 for the Americas, and 1 for Africa); only countries without a qualified fencer in an event were eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments and each country could send only 1 fencer. [1]
The host country was guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots.
Nation | Men | Women | Total | ||||||||
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Individual | Team | Individual | Team | ||||||||
Épée | Foil | Sabre | Épée | Foil | Épée | Foil | Sabre | Épée | Sabre | ||
Algeria | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Argentina | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Austria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Azerbaijan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Belarus | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Belgium | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Benin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Brazil | 3 | 3 | 1 | X | X | 3 | 2 | 1 | X | 13 | |
Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
China | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | 3 | 2 | 1 | X | 11 | ||
Colombia | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Cuba | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Czech Republic | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Egypt | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Estonia | 1 | 3 | X | 4 | |||||||
France | 3 | 3 | 1 | X | X | 3 | 2 | 3 | X | X | 15 |
Georgia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Germany | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
Great Britain | 3 | X | 3 | ||||||||
Greece | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
Hungary | 3 | 2 | X | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
Iran | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Italy | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 1 | 2 | 3 | X | 14 | |
Ivory Coast | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Kuwait | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Lebanon | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Mexico | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | X | 7 | ||||
Morocco | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Netherlands | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Panama | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Poland | 1 | 3 | X | 4 | |||||||
Romania | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | 5 | ||||||
Russia | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 3 | 2 | 3 | X | X | 16 |
Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Senegal | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
South Korea | 3 | 1 | 2 | X | 3 | 2 | 3 | X | X | 14 | |
Switzerland | 3 | X | 1 | 4 | |||||||
Turkey | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||
Ukraine | 3 | 1 | X | 3 | 1 | 3 | X | X | 11 | ||
United States | 1 | 3 | 2 | X | 3 | 2 | 3 | X | X | 14 | |
Venezuela | 3 | 1 | X | 1 | 1 | 6 | |||||
Vietnam | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
Total: 48 NOCs | 38 | 35 | 32 | 9 | 8 | 37 | 35 | 36 | 9 | 8 | 213 |
Event | Date | Venue |
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FIE Official Ranking cut-off | April 4, 2016 | — |
Zonal Qualifier – Asia & Oceania | April 11–12, 2016 | Wuxi |
Zonal Qualifier – Africa | April 14–15, 2016 | Algiers |
Zonal Qualifier – America | April 16–17, 2016 | San José [2] |
Zonal Qualifier – Europe | April 16–17, 2016 | Prague [2] |
Standard | Places | Qualified teams |
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Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking [3] | 5 | France Ukraine Italy Switzerland Hungary |
Top team from Asia & Oceania in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | South Korea |
Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 [3] | 0 | — |
Top team from America in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | Venezuela |
Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | Russia |
Host country option | 1 | Brazil |
Total | 9 |
Standard | Places | Qualified teams |
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Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking [4] | 4 | Russia Italy France United States |
Top team from Asia & Oceania in positions 5–16 [4] | 1 | China |
Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 [4] | 1 | Egypt |
Top team from America in positions 5–16 [4] | 1 | Brazil |
Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 [4] | 1 | Great Britain |
Host country option | 0 | — |
Total | 8 |
Standard | Places | Qualified fencer |
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Top 14 individual AOR | 14 | Aleksey Yakimenko (RUS) Gu Bon-gil (KOR) Áron Szilágyi (HUN) Tiberiu Dolniceanu (ROU) Kim Jung-hwan (KOR) Max Hartung (GER) Aldo Montano (ITA) Eli Dershwitz (USA) Nikolay Kovalev (RUS) Daryl Homer (USA) Mojtaba Abedini (IRI) Diego Occhiuzzi (ITA) Matyas Szabo (GER) Aliaksandr Buikevich (BLR) |
Top 2 individual AOR: Asia & Oceania | 2 | Ali Pakdaman (IRI) Sun Wei (CHN) |
Top 2 individual AOR: Africa | 2 | Mohamed Amer (EGY) Yémi Apithy (BEN) |
Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Renzo Agresta (BRA) Joseph Polossifakis (CAN) |
Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Vincent Anstett (FRA) Tamás Decsi (HUN) |
Zonal tournament: Asia & Oceania | 3 | Vũ Thành An (VIE) Ilya Mokretsov (KAZ) Kenta Tokunan (JPN) |
Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Farès Ferjani (TUN) |
Zonal tournament: America | 2 | Julián Ayala (MEX) Yoandry Iriarte (CUB) |
Zonal tournament: Europe | 4 | Andriy Yahodka (UKR) Sandro Bazadze (GEO) Pancho Paskov (BUL) Seppe Van Holsbeke (BEL) |
Host country option | 0 | — |
Total | 32 |
Standard | Places | Qualified teams |
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Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking [3] | 5 | Romania China Russia Estonia France |
Top team from Asia & Oceania in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | South Korea |
Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 [3] | 0 | — |
Top team from America in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | United States |
Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 [3] | 1 | Ukraine |
Host country option | 1 | Brazil |
Total | 9 |
Standard | Places | Qualified teams |
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Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking | 5 | Russia Ukraine France United States Poland |
Top team from Asia & Oceania in positions 5–16 | 1 | South Korea |
Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 | 0 | — |
Top team from America in positions 5–16 | 1 | Mexico |
Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 | 1 | Italy |
Host country option | 0 | — |
Total | 8 |
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