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.
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.
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.
Participating nations
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 teamWomen's Épée individual Sabre individual Foil individual Épée team Sabre team
Medal summary Medal table
Men's Individual épée Team épée Gauthier GrumierYannick BorelDaniel JérentJean-Michel Lucenay Enrico GarozzoMarco FicheraPaolo PizzoAndrea Santarelli Gábor BoczkóGéza ImreAndrás RédliPéter Somfai Individual foil Team foil Russia's substitute, Dmitry Zherebchenko, did not fence in the competition and did not receive a medal. Timur SafinArtur AkhmatkhuzinAleksey Cheremisinov Jérémy CadotEnzo LefortErwan Le PéchouxJean-Paul Tony Helissey Miles Chamley-WatsonRace ImbodenAlexander MassialasGerek Meinhardt Individual sabre
Women's Individual épée Team épée Loredana DinuSimona GhermanSimona PopAna Maria PopescuHao JialuSun YiwenSun YujieXu AnqiOlga KochnevaVioletta KolobovaTatiana LogunovaLyubov Shutova Individual foil Individual sabre Team sabre Sofia VelikayaYana EgorianEkaterina DyachenkoYuliya GavrilovaOlha KharlanOlena KravatskaAlina KomashchukOlena VoroninaMonica AksamitIbtihaj MuhammadDagmara WozniakMariel Zagunis
See also Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
References
External links
International Fencing Federation Results Book – Fencing