Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil

Women's team foil at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Olympic fencing
Venue	Grand Palais strip
Date	1 August 2024
Competitors	32 from 8 nations
Teams	8
Medalists
Jacqueline Dubrovich Lee Kiefer Lauren Scruggs Maia Weintraub   United States Arianna Errigo Martina Favaretto Francesca Palumbo Alice Volpi   Italy Sera Azuma Yuka Ueno Karin Miyawaki Komaki Kikuchi   Japan
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The women's team foil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took on 1 August 2024 at the Grand Palais strip. ^[1] 32 fencers (eight teams of four) from eight nations competed. ^[2]

Background

The Russian Olympic Committee, the titleholder from 2020, did not compete this time. The United States team, featuring two-time individual foil gold medalist Lee Kiefer and her fellow teammates, triumphed over Italy, the bronze medalist from 2020, marking the first time a non-European team has secured a gold medal in women's team foil.

Qualification

Main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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

Competition format

The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featured the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with nine three-minute bouts to five points; the winning team was the one that reaches 45 total points first or was leading after the end of the nine bouts. ^[3]

Schedule

The competition was held over a single day. ^[4]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 1 August 2024	13:00 16:40 17:30 17:30 20:20 21:20	Quarterfinals Semifinals Classification 7/8 Classification 5/6 Bronze medal match Gold medal match

Results

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Italy	45
	Egypt	14
					Italy	45
					Japan	39
	Poland	30
	Japan	45
									Italy	39
									United States	45
	France	36
	Canada	38
					Canada	31
					United States	45			Bronze medal bout
	China	37
	United States	45
									Japan	33
									Canada	32

5–8th place classification

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place bout
	Egypt	21
	Poland	45
					Poland	44
					France	45
	France	45
	China	39
					Seventh place bout
					Egypt	18
					China	45

Final classification

Rank	Team	Athletes
	United States	Jacqueline Dubrovich Lee Kiefer Lauren Scruggs Maia Weintraub
	Italy	Arianna Errigo Martina Favaretto Francesca Palumbo Alice Volpi
	Japan	Sera Azuma Komaki Kikuchi Karin Miyawaki Yuka Ueno
4	Canada	Jessica Guo Eleanor Harvey Yunjia Zhang
5	France	Pauline Ranvier Ysaora Thibus Eva Lacheray Anita Blaze
6	Poland	Julia Walczyk Martyna Jelińska Hanna Łyczbińska Martyna Synoradzka
7	China	Huang Qianqian Wang Yuting Chen Qingyuan Jiao Enqi
8	Egypt	Sara Amr Hossny Yara El-Sharkawy Malak Hamza Noha Hany

References

1. "Fencing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". NBC Olympics. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
2. "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime . Retrieved 2 January 2023.
3. "A Guide for Beginners to the Olympics Fencing Format". fencingtip.com. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
4. "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Olympics.com. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

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