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Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre ; each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules. Most competitive fencers specialize in one discipline. The modern sport gained prominence near the end of the 19th century and is based on the traditional skill set of swordsmanship. The Italian school altered the historical European martial art of classical fencing, and the French school later refined that system. Scoring points in a fencing competition is done by making contact with an opponent.
Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events, further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre.
Nedo Nadi was one of the best Italian fencers of all time. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most fencing gold medals ever at a single Games—five. Nadi won six Olympic gold medals in total.
Won Woo-young is a South Korean sabre fencer. He won gold at the Olympics, World Championships, Asian Games and Asian Championships and is the first Asian fencer to win gold in the men's individual sabre event at the World Championships.
Nicolas Lopez is a French sabre fencer.
Julien Pillet is a French sabre fencer. He is a three-time Olympic medalist as he won the gold in the team event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and also at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He also won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, again in the sabre team event. He finished 4th in the individual sabre event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Edgar Isaac Seligman was a British épée, foil, and sabre fencer. After the family moved to London he became a British citizen by naturalisation.
Sergey Aleksandrovich Sharikov, also known as Serguei/Sergei Charikov, was a left-handed Russian Olympic champion sabre fencer. In the Olympics he won two gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze medal.
Vadym Gutzeit is a Ukrainian Olympic champion sabre fencer, and current Ukraine's Youth and Sport Minister, as well as the president of the National Fencing Federation of Ukraine.
The World Fencing Championships is an annual competition in fencing organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events.
Ian James Williams is a former Olympian, fencing champion and fencing coach.
Oh Eun-seok is a South Korean retired sabre fencer. He is an Olympic and Asian Games gold medalist in the team event.
Richard A Cohen is a retired British fencer who competed at three Olympic Games and the author of four books, Making History, The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past,Chasing the Sun, the story of man's relationship to that star, How to Write Like Tolstoy, A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers, and By the Sword, a history of sword fighting. He is the founder of the book publisher Richard Cohen Books.
Henry William Furse "Bill" Hoskyns MBE was a British fencer who appeared at six Olympic Games.,
Arnold Ralph Cooperman was a British three-time Olympic foil and sabre fencer.
Alexander James O'Connell is a sabre fencer who competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Michael John Amberg was a British fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
James Honeybone is a five times British champion fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's sabre, but was defeated in the first round.
Shaul Gordon is a Canadian fencer in the sabre discipline. Gordon has represented the country on the international stage since 2013, and has competed at two Pan American Games and six World Fencing Championships. Gordon formerly resided in Richmond, British Columbia, but now lives and trains in Montreal, Quebec.
References
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- ↑ "British Champions" (PDF). British Fencing. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
