Summer Games Fencing Tickets

Each contest pits two fencers against each other in an often mesmerising duel, a dancing combat befitting a theatrical production.

In view of a referee but also using electronic equipment to measure scoring, the combatants wear protective clothing, including a wire mesh face mask that has to pass a 12kg punch test.

There are 10 events (three individual men’s, two team men’s, three individual women’s and two team women’s) and three types of weapon: the epee, the sabre and the foil.

Points are scored by touching or ‘hitting’ opponents with the tip or blade of your sword, which is wired to a buzzer that sounds to indicate contact, on a valid target area; in the foil, this is the trunk of the body, in the sabre everything above the waist, excluding hands, and in epee the entire body is legal. Coloured lights on the electrical scoring apparatus register valid hits, while white lights register hits landing outside the valid target area.

Matches consist of three three-minute bouts. The first fencer to post 15 touches, or the one with most hits after three rounds, is declared the winner.

Events / disciplines

Men’s individual foil, women’s individual foil
Men’s individual sabre, women’s individual sabre
Men’s individual epee, women’s individual epee
Men’s team foil, women’s team foil
Men’s team sabre, women’s team epee

Gold medals available 10