Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Fencing competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London are scheduled to be held from 28 July to 5 August at ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Ten events (6 individual, 4 team) are scheduled to be contested. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) pushed for the inclusion of two more team events, but the IOC voted to keep the current format of ten events.

Italy's Valentina Vezzali has a chance to become only the fourth athlete to win individual gold medals in four consecutive Summer Olympics if she wins women's individual foil competition.

The ten events are[1]:

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual Épée
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Individual Foil
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Team foil
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Individual Sabre
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Team sabre
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Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual Épée
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Team épée
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Individual Foil
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Team foil
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Individual Sabre
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Qualification

For more details on this topic, see Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics - Qualification.

Qualification will be primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as at 2 April 2012, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.

References

  1. ^ http://www.fie.ch/download/letters/2010/info/1/en/9.2%20-%20Qualification_OG_London_detailed_ang.pdf
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