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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.
The Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, commonly known by the acronym FIE, is the international governing body of Olympic fencing. Today, its head office is at the Maison du Sport International in Lausanne, Switzerland. The FIE is composed of 157 national federations, each of which is recognized by its country's Olympic Committee as the sole representative of Olympic-style fencing in that country.
Matthias Behr is a former German foil fencer. He won a gold medal and three silvers at three Olympic Games.
Rubén Dario Limardo Gascón is a Venezuelan left-handed épée fencer, five-time team Pan American champion, four-time individual Pan American champion, three-time Olympian, and 2012 individual Olympic champion.
Weston "Seth" Kelsey is an American épée fencer and three time Olympic fencer. He competed at three Olympiads: 2004, 2008 and 2012. He finished 4th in the individual competition at the 2012 London Olympics.
Gaël Touya is a French fencer. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, in team sabre, together with his brother Damien Touya and Julien Pillet.
Tamer Tahoun is an Egyptian foil fencer and one of the head coaches at Star Fencing Academy near Boston, MA.
Shaimaa El-Gammal is an Egyptian fencer. She competed in the women's foil events at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Irene Vecchi is an Italian sabre fencer. She earned a bronze medal in the 2013 World Championships and 2017 World Championships, an individual bronze at the 2013 European Championships and won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Fencing Championships.
Zain Shaito is an American Olympic Fencer who competed in the individual fencing event at the 2012 Olympic Games held in London, losing to Chinese fencer Zhu Jun.
Iman Muhammad Shaban Muhammad Gaber, commonly known as Eman Gaber or Iman Shaban, is an Egyptian fencer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the Women's foil, received a bye in the first round and was defeated 2–15 in the second round.
Nicole Ross is an American foil fencer. Fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team, she won the 2010 NCAA individual women's foil title, and was a three time All-American. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in individual women's foil, coming in 25th, while in the team event she and her teammates came in sixth. At the 2018 World Championships, she and her Team USA teammates won the gold medal in the women's team foil event.
Mojtaba Abedini Shourmasti is an Iranian 3-time Olympian sabre fencer. In 2012, he became the first Iranian fencer to compete in the Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Fencing Championships, becoming the first-ever Iranian fencer to win a medal at the World Fencing Championships.
Alaaeldin Mohamed El-Sayed Abouelkassem is an Egyptian fencer who won a silver medal in the men's foil event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He took up fencing at the age of eight and, in 2008, began fencing internationally, winning medals at the African and World Junior Championships, as well as the Junior World Cup, before progressing to the senior level in 2011 and capturing bronze at the Fleuret de St-Petersbourg. Later that year, he earned gold medals at the 2011 Pan Arab Games in the individual and team foil events before progressing to the 2012 Summer Games, where he won Africa's first-ever Olympic fencing medal.
Tarek Ayad is an Egyptian foil fencer, African champion in 2010. At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the individual event, but was defeated in the table of 32 by Russia's Aleksey Cheremisinov. He originally took up fencing in 1993, after being encouraged by his brother's friend. He competed at the 2016 Olympics, losing to eventual champion Daniele Garozzo in the last 32. He has also won silver and bronze medals at World Cup events.
Mohamed Rayan Samandi is a Tunisian foil fencer, African champion in 2014. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the individual event but was defeated in the second round.
Pavel Vladislavovich Sukhov is a Russian right-handed épée fencer.
The fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 212 fencers competed in 10 events -- six individual and four team.
Inès Boubakri is a Tunisian foil fencer. She is a four-time Olympian, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and is a member of Association sportive de Bourg-la-Reine in France, under head coach Yann Detienne.
The Philippines participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.
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- ↑ "Mannad Zeid". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ↑ "Fencer - ZEID Mannad - EGYPT - FIE - International Fencing Federation". fie.org. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
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