Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Dates	28 July – 5 August 2012
Competitors	204 from 44 nations

Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Épée		men		women
Team épée				women
Foil		men		women
Team foil		men		women
Sabre		men		women
Team sabre		men

ExCeL Exhibition Centre is hosting the fencing.

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The fencing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 5 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Ten events (six individual, four team) were contested. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) had pushed for the inclusion of two more team events, but the International Olympic Committee voted to keep the current format of ten events.

Qualification

Qualification was primarily based on the FIE official rankings as at 2 April 2012, with further individual places available at four zonal qualifying tournaments.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	3	2	2	7
2	South Korea	2	1	3	6
3	China	2	0	1	3
4	Ukraine	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
7	Russia	0	2	1	3
8	Germany	0	1	1	2
9	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
13	United States	0	0	1	1
Total		10	10	10	30

Despite fencing being its top medal-producing sport, France did not win any medal for the first time since 1960.

Events

Men's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Rubén Limardo  Venezuela	Bartosz Piasecki  Norway	Jung Jin-sun  South Korea
Individual foil	Lei Sheng  China	Alaaeldin Abouelkassem  Egypt	Choi Byung-chul  South Korea
Team foil	Italy (ITA) Valerio Aspromonte Giorgio Avola Andrea Baldini Andrea Cassarà	Japan (JPN) Suguru Awaji Kenta Chida Ryo Miyake Yuki Ota	Germany (GER) Peter Joppich Sebastian Bachmann Benjamin Kleibrink André Weßels
Individual sabre	Áron Szilágyi  Hungary	Diego Occhiuzzi  Italy	Nikolay Kovalev  Russia
Team sabre	South Korea (KOR) Gu Bon-gil Won Woo-young Kim Jung-hwan Oh Eun-seok	Romania (ROU) Rareș Dumitrescu Tiberiu Dolniceanu Florin Zalomir Alexandru Sirițeanu	Italy (ITA) Aldo Montano Diego Occhiuzzi Luigi Samele Luigi Tarantino

Women's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Yana Shemyakina  Ukraine	Britta Heidemann  Germany	Sun Yujie  China
Team épée	China (CHN) Sun Yujie Xu Anqi Li Na Luo Xiaojuan	South Korea (KOR) Shin A-lam Choi In-jeong Jung Hyo-jung Choi Eun-sook	United States (USA) Courtney Hurley Kelley Hurley Maya Lawrence Susie Scanlan
Individual foil	Elisa Di Francisca  Italy	Arianna Errigo  Italy	Valentina Vezzali  Italy
Team foil	Italy (ITA) Arianna Errigo Elisa Di Francisca Ilaria Salvatori Valentina Vezzali	Russia (RUS) Inna Deriglazova Larisa Korobeynikova Aida Shanaeva Kamilla Gafurzianova	South Korea (KOR) Nam Hyun-hee Jeon Hee-sook Jung Gil-ok Oh Ha-na
Individual sabre	Kim Ji-yeon  South Korea	Sofiya Velikaya  Russia	Olha Kharlan  Ukraine