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
Venue	Carioca Arena 3
Dates	6–14 August 2016
No. of events	10
Competitors	212 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

Main article: Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – 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

•  Algeria (2)
•  Argentina (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Benin (1)
•  Brazil (13)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (5)
•  China (11)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Cuba (1)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Egypt (7)
•  Estonia (5)
•  France (15)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (4)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  Hungary (9)
•  Iran (2)
•  Italy (14)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Japan (6)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Mexico (7)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Poland (4)
•  Romania (6)
•  Russia (16)
•  Saudi Arabia (1)
•  Senegal (1)
•  South Korea (14)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  Tunisia (5)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (10)
•  United States (14)
•  Venezuela (6)
•  Vietnam (4)

Schedule

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	1	2	7
2	Hungary	2	1	1	4
3	Italy	1	3	0	4
4	France	1	1	1	3
5	South Korea	1	0	1	2
6	Romania	1	0	0	1
7	United States	0	2	2	4
8	China	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
10	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	10	30

Men's

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

Women's

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

• Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.

External links

• "Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics (archived)
• International Fencing Federation
• Results Book – Fencing