The girls' sabre competition (officially the women's sabre individual) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 9 October 2018 at the Africa Pavilion in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eleven fencers from eleven nations took part. Liza Pusztai of Hungary won the gold medal, Mexico's Natalia Botello took silver and Lee Ju-eun of South Korea won bronze.
Competition format The competition began with a pool round, in which the 11 fencers were divided into two pools and fenced all other opponents within their pool. The results of the pool round were used to establish the seeding for the direct-elimination phase. The knockout round determined the medalists, with a separate bronze-medal bout between the losing semifinalists.
Results Pool round The 11 competitors were split into two pools. Rankings within each pool were based on number of victories, the ratio of victories to bouts fenced and the hit difference.
Pool 1 Rank Athlete 5 2 1 4 4 0 4 0.000 11 20 −9 1 V 2 V V 3 4 0.750 17 12 +5 4 V V 4 1 2 4 0.500 15 13 +2 2 V 2 V V 3 4 0.750 17 17 0 3 V 3 V 4 2 4 0.500 17 15 +2
Pool 2 Rank Athlete 3 3 3 V V V 3 5 0.600 21 17 +4 2 V 4 V V V 4 5 0.800 24 13 +11 1 V V V V V 5 5 1.000 25 11 +1462 2 1 2 2 0 5 0.000 9 25 −16 4 2 2 0 V V 2 5 0.400 14 18 −4 5 3 1 3 V 1 1 5 0.200 13 22 −9
Bracket
In the knockout phase, Liza Pusztai defeated Lee Ju-eun 15–12 in the semifinals, while Natalia Botello beat Jolien Corteyn 15–3. In the final Pusztai overcame Botello 15–9 to win the gold medal, and Lee claimed the bronze medal with a 15–8 victory over Corteyn.
Final standings
Rank Athlete 10 11
See also Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Fencing at the Summer Youth Olympics
References
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Pool round results Ranking after pools