Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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 (an equal distribution between men and women; of which, eight fencers came from the host nation Brazil) competed in 10 events -- six individual and four team.[1]

Fencing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueCarioca Arena 3
Dates6–14 August 2016
No. of events10
Competitors212 from 48 nations
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Similar to 2008 and 2012, the International Fencing Federation maintained the format of ten events with a rotation system for team events. As a result, the men's team sabre and the women's team foil were dropped from the program only at these Games.[2][3]

Qualification

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Qualification was primarily based on the FIE official rankings as of 4 April 2016, with further individual places available at four zonal qualifying tournaments.[4]

Participating nations

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Schedule

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Daily schedule
Date → Sat 6 Sun 7 Mon 8 Tue 9 Wed 10 Thu 11 Fri 12 Sat 13 Sun 14
Men's Foil individual Épée individual Sabre individual Foil team Épée team
Women's Épée individual Sabre individual Foil individual Épée team Sabre team

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Brazil)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia4127
2  Hungary2114
3  Italy1304
4  France1113
5  South Korea1012
6  Romania1001
7  United States0224
8  China0112
  Ukraine0112
10  Tunisia0011
Totals (10 entries)10101030

Men's

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
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Park Sang-young
  South Korea
Géza Imre
  Hungary
Gauthier Grumier
  France
Team épée
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  France (FRA)
Gauthier Grumier
Yannick Borel
Daniel Jérent
Jean-Michel Lucenay
  Italy (ITA)
Enrico Garozzo
Marco Fichera
Paolo Pizzo
Andrea Santarelli
  Hungary (HUN)
Gábor Boczkó
Géza Imre
András Rédli
Péter Somfai
Individual foil
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Daniele Garozzo
  Italy
Alexander Massialas
  United States
Timur Safin
  Russia
Team foil
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  Russia (RUS)[5]
Timur Safin
Artur Akhmatkhuzin
Aleksey Cheremisinov
 
  France (FRA)
Jérémy Cadot
Enzo Lefort
Erwan Le Péchoux
Jean-Paul Tony Helissey
  United States (USA)
Miles Chamley-Watson
Race Imboden
Alexander Massialas
Gerek Meinhardt
Individual sabre
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Áron Szilágyi
  Hungary
Daryl Homer
  United States
Kim Jung-hwan
  South Korea

Women's

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
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Emese Szász
  Hungary
Rossella Fiamingo
  Italy
Sun Yiwen
  China
Team épée
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  Romania (ROU)
Loredana Dinu
Simona Gherman
Simona Pop
Ana Maria Popescu
  China (CHN)
Hao Jialu
Sun Yiwen
Sun Yujie
Xu Anqi
  Russia (RUS)
Olga Kochneva
Violetta Kolobova
Tatiana Logunova
Lyubov Shutova
Individual foil
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Inna Deriglazova
  Russia
Elisa Di Francisca
  Italy
Inès Boubakri
  Tunisia
Individual sabre
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Yana Egorian
  Russia
Sofiya Velikaya
  Russia
Olha Kharlan
  Ukraine
Team sabre
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  Russia (RUS)
Sofia Velikaya
Yana Egorian
Ekaterina Dyachenko
Yuliya Gavrilova
  Ukraine (UKR)
Olha Kharlan
Olena Kravatska
Alina Komashchuk
Olena Voronina
  United States (USA)
Monica Aksamit
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Dagmara Wozniak
Mariel Zagunis

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Rio 2016: Fencing". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  2. ^ Butler, Nick (29 November 2013). "Men's sabre and women's foil team events removed from Rio 2016 fencing programme". Inside the Games. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  3. ^ "2 fencing team events cut for Rio". ESPN. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Rio 2016 – FIE Fencing Qualification System" (PDF). FIE. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  5. ^ Russia's substitute, Dmitry Zherebchenko, did not fence in the competition and did not receive a medal. "Russian foil fencers score stunning victory at Rio Olympics - coach". TASS. 13 August 2016.
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