Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil explained

Event:Women's team foil
Games:2024 Summer
Venue:Grand Palais strip
Date:1 August 2024
Competitors:32
Teams:8
Nations:8
Gold:Jacqueline Dubrovich
Lee Kiefer
Lauren Scruggs
Maia Weintraub
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Arianna Errigo
Martina Favaretto
Francesca Palumbo
Alice Volpi
Silvernoc:ITA
Bronze:Sera Azuma
Yuka Ueno
Karin Miyawaki
Komaki Kikuchi
Bronzenoc:JPN
Prev:2020
Next:2028

The women's team foil event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took on 1 August 2024 at the Grand Palais strip.[1] 32 fencers (eight teams of four) from eight nations competed.[2]

Qualification

See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of three fencers in the women's team épée. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event.[2]

Competition format

The tournament was a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match featureed the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with nine three-minute bouts to five points; the winning team was the one that reaches 45 total points first or was leading after the end of the nine bouts.[3]

Schedule

The competition was held over a single day.[4]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results

5–8th place classification

Final classification

RankTeamAthletes
Jacqueline Dubrovich
Lee Kiefer
Lauren Scruggs
Maia Weintraub
Arianna Errigo
Martina Favaretto
Francesca Palumbo
Alice Volpi
Sera Azuma
Komaki Kikuchi
Karin Miyawaki
Yuka Ueno
4 Jessica Guo
Eleanor Harvey
Yunjia Zhang
5 Pauline Ranvier
Ysaora Thibus
Eva Lacheray
Anita Blaze
6 Julia Walczyk
Martyna Jelińska
Hanna Łyczbińska
Martyna Synoradzka
7 Huang Qianqian
Wang Yuting
Chen Qingyuan
Jiao Enqi
8 Sara Amr Hossny
Yara El-Sharkawy
Malak Hamza
Noha Hany

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Fencing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. NBC Olympics. 29 August 2022. 2 January 2023.
  2. Web site: Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Fencing. . . 2 January 2023.
  3. News: A Guide for Beginners to the Olympics Fencing Format. fencingtip.com. 22 May 2024. 22 May 2024.
  4. News: Competition Schedule. Olympics.com. 26 July 2024. 30 July 2024.