Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Fencing
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Fencing, Tokyo 2020.svg
Venue Makuhari Messe
Dates24 July – 1 August 2021
No. of events12
Competitors261 from 42 nations
  2016
2024  
Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Men's sabre (6).jpg

The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. [1]

Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021. [2]

Qualification

There were 200 quota spots for fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Qualification were primarily based on the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) Official Ranking as of 4 April 2020, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.

For the team events, 8 teams qualify in each event. Each team must be composed of at least 3 fencers. The top 4 ranked teams qualify. The next-best ranked team from each zone (Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Oceania) will qualify as long as it is ranked in the top 16. If a zone does not have any teams ranked between 5th and 16th, the best-placed team not already qualified will be selected regardless of zone.

For individual events, the 3 fencers from the team event qualify for individual competition automatically. Six more places will be 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 and Asia-Oceania, and the top 1 fencer from each of Americas and Africa, qualify. 4 more places (1 per zone) will be awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event will be eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments.

The host country, Japan, is guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots.

Participating nations

261 athletes from 42 nations competed at the Olympics in the fencing event. [3]

Schedule

PPreliminariesQFQuarter-FinalsSFSemi-FinalsFFinalsMMorningEEvening
Scheduled fencing events by date
Event24 July25 July26 July27 July28 July29 July30 July31 July1 August
MEMEMMEMEMEMEMEM
Men's Individual épée PQFSFF
Men's team épée PQFSFF
Men's Individual foil PQFSFF
Men's team foil PQFSFF
Men's Individual sabre PQFSFF
Men's team sabre PQFSFF
Women's Individual épée PQFSFF
Women's team épée PQFSFF
Women's Individual foil PQFSFF
Women's team foil PQFSFF
Women's Individual sabre PQFSFF
Women's team sabre PQFSFF

Sources: Olympian Database, [4] Olympics.com [5]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Olympic flag.svg  ROC 3418
2Flag of France.svg  France 2215
3Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 1135
4Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1113
5Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1012
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1012
7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1001
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 1001
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan*1001
10Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 0325
11Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 0101
12Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 0011
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 0011
Totals (13 entries)12121236

Medalists

Men's

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual épée
details
Romain Cannone
Flag of France.svg  France
Gergely Siklósi
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Ihor Reizlin
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Team épée
details
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Koki Kano
Kazuyasu Minobe
Masaru Yamada
Satoru Uyama
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Sergey Bida
Sergey Khodos
Pavel Sukhov
Nikita Glazkov
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Park Sang-young
Ma Se-geon
Song Jae-ho
Kweon Young-jun
Individual foil
details
Cheung Ka-long
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong
Daniele Garozzo
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Alexander Choupenitch
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
Team foil
details
Flag of France.svg  France
Enzo Lefort
Erwann Le Péchoux
Julien Mertine
Maxime Pauty
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Anton Borodachev
Kirill Borodachev
Vladislav Mylnikov
Timur Safin
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Race Imboden
Nick Itkin
Alexander Massialas
Gerek Meinhardt
Individual sabre
details
Áron Szilágyi
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Luigi Samele
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Kim Jung-hwan
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Team sabre
details
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Oh Sang-uk
Kim Jun-ho
Kim Jung-hwan
Gu Bon-gil
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Luca Curatoli
Luigi Samele
Enrico Berrè
Aldo Montano
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Áron Szilágyi
András Szatmári
Tamás Decsi
Csanád Gémesi

Sources: Olympics.com [5]

Women's

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual épée
details
Sun Yiwen
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Ana Maria Popescu
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Katrina Lehis
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Team épée
details
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Julia Beljajeva
Irina Embrich
Erika Kirpu
Katrina Lehis
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Choi In-jeong
Kang Young-mi
Lee Hye-in
Song Se-ra
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Rossella Fiamingo
Federica Isola
Mara Navarria
Alberta Santuccio
Individual foil
details
Lee Kiefer
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Inna Deriglazova
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Larisa Korobeynikova
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Team foil
details
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Inna Deriglazova
Larisa Korobeynikova
Marta Martyanova
Adelina Zagidullina
Flag of France.svg  France
Anita Blaze
Astrid Guyart
Pauline Ranvier
Ysaora Thibus
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Martina Batini
Erica Cipressa
Arianna Errigo
Alice Volpi
Individual sabre
details
Sofia Pozdniakova
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Sofya Velikaya
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Manon Brunet
Flag of France.svg  France
Team sabre
details
Olympic flag.svg  ROC
Olga Nikitina
Sofia Pozdniakova
Sofya Velikaya
Flag of France.svg  France
Sara Balzer
Cécilia Berder
Manon Brunet
Charlotte Lembach
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Kim Ji-yeon
Yoon Ji-su
Seo Ji-yeon
Choi Soo-yeon

Sources: Olympics.com [5]

See also

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