Fencing
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueCarioca Arena 3
Dates6–14 August 2016
No. of events10
Competitors212 from 48 nations

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]

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

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

Schedule

Daily schedule
Date →Sat 6Sun 7Mon 8Tue 9Wed 10Thu 11Fri 12Sat 13Sun 14
Men'sFoil individualÉpée individualSabre individualFoil teamÉpée team
Women'sÉpée individualSabre individualFoil individualÉpée teamSabre team

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   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

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
Park Sang-young
 South Korea
Géza Imre
 Hungary
Gauthier Grumier
 France
Team épée
 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
Daniele Garozzo
 Italy
Alexander Massialas
 United States
Timur Safin
 Russia
Team foil
 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
Áron Szilágyi
 Hungary
Daryl Homer
 United States
Kim Jung-hwan
 South Korea

Women's

Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
Emese Szász
 Hungary
Rossella Fiamingo
 Italy
Sun Yiwen
 China
Team épée
 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
Inna Deriglazova
 Russia
Elisa Di Francisca
 Italy
Inès Boubakri
 Tunisia
Individual sabre
Yana Egorian
 Russia
Sofiya Velikaya
 Russia
Olha Kharlan
 Ukraine
Team sabre
 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

References

  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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