Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Makuhari Messe
Dates	24 July – 1 August 2021
No. of events	12
Competitors	261 from 42 nations
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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

Main article: Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – 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]

•   Algeria  (4)
•   Argentina  (1)
•   Azerbaijan  (1)
•   Brazil  (2)
•   Canada  (11)
•   Chile  (1)
•   China  (14)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Czech Republic  (2)
•   Egypt  (14)
•   Estonia  (4)
•   France  (18)
•   Georgia  (1)
•   Germany  (9)
•   Great Britain  (1)
•   Greece  (1)
•   Hong Kong  (8)
•   Hungary  (13)
•   India  (1)
•   Iran  (4)
•   Italy  (24)
•   Japan  (21)Hosts
•   Kazakhstan  (1)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (1)
•   Mexico  (1)
•   Morocco  (1)
•   Netherlands  (1)
•   Peru  (1)
•   Poland  (5)
•   ROC  (26)
•   Romania  (2)
•   Senegal  (1)
•   Singapore  (2)
•   South Korea  (18)
•   Spain  (1)
•   Switzerland  (4)
•   Tunisia  (8)
•   Turkey  (1)
•   Ukraine  (6)
•   United States  (23)
•   Uzbekistan  (3)
•   Venezuela  (2)

Schedule

P

Preliminaries

QF

Quarter-Finals

SF

Semi-Finals

F

Finals

M

Morning

E

Evening

Scheduled fencing events by date

Event	24 July				25 July				26 July				27 July				28 July				29 July				30 July				31 July				1 August
	M		E		M		E		M				M		E		M		E		M		E		M		E		M		E		M
Men's Individual épée					P	QF	SF	F
Men's team épée																									P	QF	SF	F
Men's Individual foil									P	QF	SF	F
Men's team foil																																	P	QF	SF	F
Men's Individual sabre	P	QF	SF	F
Men's team sabre																	P	QF	SF	F
Women's Individual épée	P	QF	SF	F
Women's team épée													P	QF	SF	F
Women's Individual foil					P	QF	SF	F
Women's team foil																					P	QF	SF	F
Women's Individual sabre									P	QF	SF	F
Women's team sabre																													P	QF	SF	F

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

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	ROC	3	4	1	8
2	France	2	2	1	5
3	South Korea	1	1	3	5
4	Hungary	1	1	1	3
5	Estonia	1	0	1	2
	United States	1	0	1	2
7	China	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
	Japan*	1	0	0	1
10	Italy	0	3	2	5
11	Romania	0	1	0	1
12	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Men's

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

Sources: Olympics.com ^[5]

Women's

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

Sources: Olympics.com ^[5]

See also

• Fencing at the 2018 Asian Games
• Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
• Fencing at the 2019 African Games
• Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "Tokyo 2020: Fencing" . Retrieved 12 July 2018.
2. McCurry, Justin; Ingle, Sean (24 March 2020). "Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 March 2020.
3. "Fencing – Entry List by NOC" (PDF). Olympics.com. TOCOG. 1 August 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
4. "Schedule – Fencing Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympian Database. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
5. "Fencing – Olympic Schedule & Results". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

External links

• International Fencing Federation
• Results book Archived 7 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine