# Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics

The fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 212 fencers (an equal distribution between men and women; of which, eight fencers came from the host nation Brazil) competed in 10 events -- six individual and four team.
Similar to 2008 and 2012, the International Fencing Federation maintained the format of ten events with a rotation system for team events. As a result, the men's team sabre and the women's team foil were dropped from the program only at these Games.

## Qualification

Qualification was primarily based on the FIE official rankings as of 4 April 2016, with further individual places available at four zonal qualifying tournaments.

## Participating nations

* Algeria (2)
* Argentina (1)
* Austria (1)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belarus (1)
* Belgium (1)
* Benin (1)
* Brazil (13)
* Bulgaria (1)
* Canada (5)
* China (11)
* Colombia (2)
* Cuba (1)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Egypt (7)
* Estonia (5)
* France (15)
* Georgia (1)
* Germany (4)
* Great Britain (3)
* Greece (2)
* Hong Kong (3)
* Hungary (9)
* Iran (2)
* Italy (14)
* Ivory Coast (1)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kuwait (1)
* Lebanon (1)
* Mexico (7)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* Panama (1)
* Poland (4)
* Romania (6)
* Russia (16)
* Saudi Arabia (1)
* Senegal (1)
* South Korea (14)
* Switzerland (4)
* Tunisia (5)
* Turkey (1)
* Ukraine (10)
* United States (14)
* Venezuela (6)
* Vietnam (4)

## Schedule

Daily schedule :
| Date → | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thu 11 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sun 14 |
| Men's | | Foil individual | | Épée individual | Sabre individual | | Foil team | | Épée team |
| Women's | Épée individual | | Sabre individual | | Foil individual | Épée team | | Sabre team | |

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Brazil)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Italy | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | China | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |

### Men's

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Park Sang-young South Korea | Géza Imre Hungary | Gauthier Grumier France |
| Team épée details | France (FRA) Gauthier Grumier Yannick Borel Daniel Jérent Jean-Michel Lucenay | Italy (ITA) Enrico Garozzo Marco Fichera Paolo Pizzo Andrea Santarelli | Hungary (HUN) Gábor Boczkó Géza Imre András Rédli Péter Somfai |
| Individual foil details | Daniele Garozzo Italy | Alexander Massialas United States | Timur Safin Russia |
| Team foil details | Russia (RUS) Timur Safin Artur Akhmatkhuzin Aleksey Cheremisinov | France (FRA) Jérémy Cadot Enzo Lefort Erwan Le Péchoux Jean-Paul Tony Helissey | United States (USA) Miles Chamley-Watson Race Imboden Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt |
| Individual sabre details | Áron Szilágyi Hungary | Daryl Homer United States | Kim Jung-hwan South Korea |

### Women's

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Emese Szász Hungary | Rossella Fiamingo Italy | Sun Yiwen China |
| Team épée details | Romania (ROU) Loredana Dinu Simona Gherman Simona Pop Ana Maria Popescu | China (CHN) Hao Jialu Sun Yiwen Sun Yujie Xu Anqi | Russia (RUS) Olga Kochneva Violetta Kolobova Tatiana Logunova Lyubov Shutova |
| Individual foil details | Inna Deriglazova Russia | Elisa Di Francisca Italy | Inès Boubakri Tunisia |
| Individual sabre details | Yana Egorian Russia | Sofiya Velikaya Russia | Olha Kharlan Ukraine |
| Team sabre details | Russia (RUS) Sofia Velikaya Yana Egorian Ekaterina Dyachenko Yuliya Gavrilova | Ukraine (UKR) Olha Kharlan Olena Kravatska Alina Komashchuk Olena Voronina | United States (USA) Monica Aksamit Ibtihaj Muhammad Dagmara Wozniak Mariel Zagunis |