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

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Women's team foil
at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Olympic fencing
VenueGrand Palais strip
Date1 August 2024
Competitors32 from 8 nations
Teams8
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jacqueline Dubrovich
Lee Kiefer
Lauren Scruggs
Maia Weintraub
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Arianna Errigo
Martina Favaretto
Francesca Palumbo
Alice Volpi
 Italy
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sera Azuma
Yuka Ueno
Karin Miyawaki
Komaki Kikuchi
 Japan
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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

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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

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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

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

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

Date Time Round
Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:00
16:40
17:30
17:30
20:20
21:20
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Classification 7/8
Classification 5/6
Bronze medal match
Gold medal match

Results

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
 Italy45
 
 
 
 Egypt14
 
 Italy45
 
 
 
 Japan39
 
 Poland30
 
 
 
 Japan45
 
 Italy39
 
 
 
 United States45
 
 France36
 
 
 
 Canada38
 
 Canada31
 
 
 
 United States45 Bronze medal bout
 
 China37
 
 
 
 United States45
 
 Japan33
 
 
 Canada32
 

5–8th place classification

 
5–8th place semifinalsFifth place bout
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Egypt21
 
 
 
 Poland45
 
 Poland44
 
 
 
 France45
 
 France45
 
 
 China39
 
Seventh place bout
 
 
 
 
 
 Egypt18
 
 
 China45

Final classification

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Rank Team Athletes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States Jacqueline Dubrovich
Lee Kiefer
Lauren Scruggs
Maia Weintraub
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy Arianna Errigo
Martina Favaretto
Francesca Palumbo
Alice Volpi
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan Sera Azuma
Komaki Kikuchi
Karin Miyawaki
Yuka Ueno
4  Canada Jessica Guo
Eleanor Harvey
Yunjia Zhang
5  France Pauline Ranvier
Ysaora Thibus
Eva Lacheray
Anita Blaze
6  Poland Julia Walczyk
Martyna Jelińska
Hanna Łyczbińska
Martyna Synoradzka
7  China Huang Qianqian
Wang Yuting
Chen Qingyuan
Jiao Enqi
8  Egypt Sara Amr Hossny
Yara El-Sharkawy
Malak Hamza
Noha Hany

References

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  1. ^ "Fencing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". NBC Olympics. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Qualification System – Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. ^ "A Guide for Beginners to the Olympics Fencing Format". fencingtip.com. 22 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Competition Schedule" (PDF). Olympics.com. 26 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
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