The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women.
Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021.
Qualification
There were 200 quota spots for fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Qualification were primarily based on the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) Official Ranking as of 4 April 2020, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.
For the team events, 8 teams qualify in each event. Each team must be composed of at least 3 fencers. The top 4 ranked teams qualify. The next-best ranked team from each zone (Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Oceania) will qualify as long as it is ranked in the top 16. If a zone does not have any teams ranked between 5th and 16th, the best-placed team not already qualified will be selected regardless of zone.
For individual events, the 3 fencers from the team event qualify for individual competition automatically. Six more places will be awarded based on the rankings (ignoring fencers from countries with team qualifications, and considering only the top fencer from each country): the top 2 fencers from each of Europe and Asia-Oceania, and the top 1 fencer from each of Americas and Africa, qualify. 4 more places (1 per zone) will be awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event will be eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments.
The host country, Japan, is guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots.
Participating nations 261 athletes from 42 nations competed at the Olympics in the fencing event.
Hosts
Schedule PPreliminariesQFQuarter-FinalsSFSemi-FinalsFFinalsMMorningEEvening
+ Scheduled fencing events by date Event 24 July 25 July 26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July 30 July 31 July 1 August M E M E M M E M E M E M E M E M Men's Individual épée P QF SF F Men's team épée P QF SF F Men's Individual foil P QF SF F Men's team foil P QF SF F Men's Individual sabreP QF SF F Men's team sabre P QF SF F Women's Individual épéeP QF SF F Women's team épée P QF SF F Women's Individual foil P QF SF F Women's team foil P QF SF F Women's Individual sabre P QF SF F Women's team sabre P QF SF F Sources: Olympian Database, Olympics.com
Medal summary
Medal table
Medalists Men's Individual épée Team épée Koki KanoKazuyasu MinobeMasaru YamadaSatoru Uyama Sergey BidaSergey KhodosPavel SukhovNikita Glazkov Park Sang-youngMa Se-geonSong Jae-hoKweon Young-junIndividual foil Team foil Enzo LefortErwann Le PéchouxJulien MertineMaxime Pauty Anton BorodachevKirill BorodachevVladislav MylnikovTimur Safin Race ImbodenNick ItkinAlexander MassialasGerek MeinhardtIndividual sabre Team sabre Oh Sang-ukKim Jun-hoKim Jung-hwanGu Bon-gil Luca CuratoliLuigi SameleEnrico BerrèAldo Montano Áron SzilágyiAndrás SzatmáriTamás DecsiCsanád Gémesi Sources: Olympics.com
Women's Individual épée Team épée Julia BeljajevaIrina EmbrichErika KirpuKatrina Lehis Choi In-jeongKang Young-miLee Hye-inSong Se-ra Rossella FiamingoFederica IsolaMara NavarriaAlberta SantuccioIndividual foil Team foil Inna DeriglazovaLarisa KorobeynikovaMarta MartyanovaAdelina Zagidullina Anita BlazeAstrid GuyartPauline RanvierYsaora Thibus Martina BatiniErica CipressaArianna ErrigoAlice VolpiIndividual sabre Team sabre Olga NikitinaSofia PozdniakovaSofya Velikaya Sara BalzerCécilia BerderManon BrunetCharlotte Lembach Kim Ji-yeonYoon Ji-suSeo Ji-yeonChoi Soo-yeon Sources: Olympics.com
See also Fencing at the 2018 Asian Games Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Fencing at the 2019 African Games Fencing at the 2019 Pan American Games Wheelchair fencing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
References
External links International Fencing Federation Results book