Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Fencing
at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Fencing; at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Africa Pavilion
Dates	7–10 October
No. of events	7 (3 boys, 3 girls, 1 mixed)
Competitors	78 from 41 nations
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Fencing events at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics were held from 7 to 10 October at the Africa Pavilion in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 6 competitors, 3 per each gender and 1 per each weapon. 66 places was decided at the 2018 Cadet World Championships held in Verona, Italy from 1–9 April 2018.^[1] Ten athletes per each individual event (1 from Africa, 2 from the Americas, 3 from Asia/Oceania and 4 from Europe) qualified. Furthermore, the top six ranked individual athletes that have not qualified overall across all genders will also qualify, with a maximum one per event per NOC (2 from Oceania and 1 from the other four continents). As hosts, Argentina is able to enter athletes in all six events and a further three wildcards were awarded per gender. These were awarded to: Costa Rica, Lebanon, Togo, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Senegal.^[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003.^[2]

NOC	Boys			Girls			Total
NOC	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Total
Algeria				X		X	2
Argentina	X	X	X	X	X	X	2
Australia		X			X		2
Austria	X						1
Belgium				X		X	2
Bulgaria						X	1
Canada	X			X	X		3
China	X	X	X		X	X	3
Costa Rica				X			1
Czech Republic				X			1
Denmark		X					1
Egypt	X	X	X	X	X		5
France		X	X		X		3
Germany	X		X				2
Hong Kong		X		X	X	X	4
Hungary			X	X	X	X	4
Iran			X				1
Iraq			X				1
Italy	X	X		X	X	X	3
Japan	X		X		X		3
Kazakhstan				X			1
Kyrgyzstan	X						1
Lebanon				X			1
Mexico		X				X	2
Philippines		X					1
Poland		X			X		2
Portugal		X					1
Puerto Rico			X				1
Romania			X		X		2
Russia	X			X		X	3
Saudi Arabia			X				1
Singapore		X					1
Senegal			X				1
South Korea		X	X	X		X	3
Spain			X				1
Chinese Taipei		X					1
Togo					X		1
Turkey						X	1
Ukraine				X			1
United States	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Venezuela					X		1
41 NOCs	11	13	15	14	14	11	78

Medal summary

Medal table

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' Épée details	Davide Di Veroli Italy	Paul Veltrup Germany	Khasan Baudunov Kyrgyzstan
Boys' Foil details	Armand Spichiger France	Kenji Bravo United States	Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen Denmark
Boys' Sabre details	Krisztián Rabb Hungary	Hyun Jun South Korea	Mazen Elaraby Egypt
Girls' Épée details	Kateryna Chorniy Ukraine	Kaylin Hsieh Hong Kong	Veronika Bieleszová Czech Republic
Girls' Foil details	Yuka Ueno Japan	Martina Favaretto Italy	May Tieu United States
Girls' Sabre details	Liza Pusztai Hungary	Natalia Botello Mexico	Lee Ju-eun South Korea
Mixed Team Event details	Europe 1 Kateryna Chorniy (UKR) Martina Favaretto (ITA) Liza Pusztai (HUN) Davide Di Veroli (ITA) Armand Spichiger (FRA) Krisztián Rabb (HUN)	Asia-Oceania 1 Kaylin Hsieh (HKG) Yuka Ueno (JPN) Lee Ju-eun (KOR) Khasan Baudunov (KGZ) Chen Yi-tung (TPE) Hyun Jun (KOR)	Americas 1 Emily Vermeule (USA) May Tieu (USA) Natalia Botello (MEX) Isaac Herbst (USA) Kenji Bravo (USA) Robert Vidovszky (USA)