Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team foil

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Men's team foil
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Fencing pictogram.svg
Olympic fencing
Venue Makuhari Messe
Date1 August 2021
Competitors35 from 9 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Erwann Le Péchoux
Enzo Lefort
Julien Mertine
Maxime Pauty
Flag of France.svg  France
Silver medal icon.svg Anton Borodachev
Kirill Borodachev
Vladislav Mylnikov
Timur Safin
Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC
Bronze medal icon.svg Race Imboden
Nick Itkin
Alexander Massialas
Gerek Meinhardt
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
  2016
2024  

The men's team foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 1 August 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. [1] 27 fencers (9 teams of 3) from 9 nations are expected to compete. [2]

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Background

This will be the 24th appearance of the event. It was first held in 1904, but omitted in 1908 (when no foil medal events were held) and 1912 (when it was the only one of the six possible men's events not included). The men's team foil returned in 1920 and has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1920 except 2008 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories).

The reigning Olympic champion is Russia (Aleksey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin, and Timur Safin). The reigning World Champion is the United States (Miles Chamley-Watson, Race Imboden, Alexander Massialas, and Gerek Meinhardt). A preview from Olympics.com identified 2016 individual gold medalist Daniele Garozzo as the leader of a strong Italian team that will compete with the United States (especially 2016 silver medalist Massialas) and France (especially 2019 individual World Champion Enzo Lefort) for the team and individual medals in foil. [3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 fencers in the men's team foil. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event. [2]

There are 8 dedicated quota spots for men's team foil. They are allocated as through the world team ranking list of 5 April 2021. The top 4 spots, regardless of geographic zone, qualify (United States, France, Italy, and ROC). The next four spots are allocated to separate geographic zones, as long as an NOC from that zone is in the top 16. These places went to Hong Kong (Asia/Oceania), Canada (Americas), Egypt (Africa), and Germany (Europe). [2]

Additionally, there are 8 host/invitational spots that can be spread throughout the various fencing events. [2] Japan qualified one men's foil fencer through normal individual qualification and used two host quota places to complete a men's foil team.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020. [2] [4]

Competition format

The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts. Standard foil rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used. [5] [6]

Schedule

The competition is held over a single day, Sunday, 1 August. The first session runs from 9 a.m. to approximately 4 p.m. (when all matches except the bronze and gold medal finals are expected to conclude), after which there is a break until 6:30 p.m. before the medal bouts are held. [1]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 1 August 20219:00
 
 
 
 
18:30
 
Round of 16
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
              
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 45
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 36
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 31
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 45
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 41
Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 45
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 39
Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 45
Russian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC 28
Flag of France.svg  France 45
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 43
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 45
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 42
Flag of France.svg  France 45 Bronze medal bout
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 34Flag of the United States.svg  United States 45
Flag of France.svg  France 45 Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 31

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place bout
 
      
 
 
 
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 45
 
 
 
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 38
 
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
 
 
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy WD
 
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 45
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 30
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 45
 
 
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 21

Final classification

RankTeamAthlete
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of France.svg  France Erwann Le Péchoux
Enzo Lefort
Julien Mertine
Maxime Pauty
Silver medal icon.svgRussian Olympic Committee flag.svg  ROC Anton Borodachev
Kirill Borodachev
Vladislav Mylnikov
Timur Safin
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of the United States.svg  United States Race Imboden
Nick Itkin
Alexander Massialas
Gerek Meinhardt
4Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Kyosuke Matsuyama
Yudai Nagano
Toshiya Saito
Takahiro Shikine
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giorgio Avola
Andrea Cassarà
Alessio Foconi
Daniele Garozzo
6Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Peter Joppich
Benjamin Kleibrink
Luis Klein
André Sanità
7Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Cheung Ka-long
Cheung Siu Lun
Ryan Choi
Lawrence Ng
8Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt Alaaeldin Abouelkassem
Mohamed Hamza
Mohamed Hassan
Youssef Sanaa
9Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Blake Broszus
Alex Cai
Maximilien Van Haaster

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