# Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women.
Originally scheduled for 25 July to 2 August 2020, the games were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to 24 July to 1 August 2021.

## Qualification

There were 200 quota spots for fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Qualification were primarily based on the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) Official Ranking as of 4 April 2020, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.
For the team events, 8 teams qualify in each event. Each team must be composed of at least 3 fencers. The top 4 ranked teams qualify. The next-best ranked team from each zone (Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Oceania) will qualify as long as it is ranked in the top 16. If a zone does not have any teams ranked between 5th and 16th, the best-placed team not already qualified will be selected regardless of zone.
For individual events, the 3 fencers from the team event qualify for individual competition automatically. Six more places will be awarded based on the rankings (ignoring fencers from countries with team qualifications, and considering only the top fencer from each country): the top 2 fencers from each of Europe and Asia-Oceania, and the top 1 fencer from each of Americas and Africa, qualify. 4 more places (1 per zone) will be awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event will be eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments.
The host country, Japan, is guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots.

## Participating nations

261 athletes from 42 nations competed at the Olympics in the fencing event.
* Algeria (4)
* Argentina (1)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Brazil (2)
* Canada (11)
* Chile (1)
* China (14)
* Colombia (1)
* Czech Republic (2)
* Egypt (14)
* Estonia (4)
* France (18)
* Georgia (1)
* Germany (9)
* Great Britain (1)
* Greece (1)
* Hong Kong (8)
* Hungary (13)
* India (1)
* Iran (4)
* Italy (24)
* Japan (21) Hosts
* Kazakhstan (1)
* Kyrgyzstan (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (5)
* ROC (26)
* Romania (2)
* Senegal (1)
* Singapore (2)
* South Korea (18)
* Spain (1)
* Switzerland (4)
* Tunisia (8)
* Turkey (1)
* Ukraine (6)
* United States (23)
* Uzbekistan (3)
* Venezuela (2)

## Schedule

| P | Preliminaries | QF | Quarter-Finals | SF | Semi-Finals | F | Finals | M | Morning | E | Evening |
Scheduled fencing events by date :
| Event | 24 July | 24 July | 24 July | 24 July | 25 July | 25 July | 25 July | 25 July | 26 July | 26 July | 26 July | 26 July | 27 July | 27 July | 27 July | 27 July | 28 July | 28 July | 28 July | 28 July | 29 July | 29 July | 29 July | 29 July | 30 July | 30 July | 30 July | 30 July | 31 July | 31 July | 31 July | 31 July | 1 August | 1 August | 1 August | 1 August |
| Event | M | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M | M | M | M | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M | E | E | M | M | M | M |
| Men's Individual épée | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's team épée | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | |
| Men's Individual foil | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's team foil | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F |
| Men's Individual sabre | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Men's team sabre | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's Individual épée | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's team épée | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's Individual foil | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's team foil | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's Individual sabre | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Women's team sabre | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | P | QF | SF | F | | | | |
Sources: Olympian Database, Olympics.com

## Medal summary
### Medal table

* Host nation (Japan)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | ROC | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | France | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | South Korea | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Estonia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | United States | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Japan* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Italy | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |

### Medalists
#### Men's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Romain Cannone France | Gergely Siklósi Hungary | Ihor Reizlin Ukraine |
| Team épée details | Japan Koki Kano Kazuyasu Minobe Masaru Yamada Satoru Uyama | ROC Sergey Bida Sergey Khodos Pavel Sukhov Nikita Glazkov | South Korea Park Sang-young Ma Se-geon Song Jae-ho Kweon Young-jun |
| Individual foil details | Cheung Ka-long Hong Kong | Daniele Garozzo Italy | Alexander Choupenitch Czech Republic |
| Team foil details | France Enzo Lefort Erwann Le Péchoux Julien Mertine Maxime Pauty | ROC Anton Borodachev Kirill Borodachev Vladislav Mylnikov Timur Safin | United States Race Imboden Nick Itkin Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt |
| Individual sabre details | Áron Szilágyi Hungary | Luigi Samele Italy | Kim Jung-hwan South Korea |
| Team sabre details | South Korea Oh Sang-uk Kim Jun-ho Kim Jung-hwan Gu Bon-gil | Italy Luca Curatoli Luigi Samele Enrico Berrè Aldo Montano | Hungary Áron Szilágyi András Szatmári Tamás Decsi Csanád Gémesi |
Sources: Olympics.com

#### Women's

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Sun Yiwen China | Ana Maria Popescu Romania | Katrina Lehis Estonia |
| Team épée details | Estonia Julia Beljajeva Irina Embrich Erika Kirpu Katrina Lehis | South Korea Choi In-jeong Kang Young-mi Lee Hye-in Song Se-ra | Italy Rossella Fiamingo Federica Isola Mara Navarria Alberta Santuccio |
| Individual foil details | Lee Kiefer United States | Inna Deriglazova ROC | Larisa Korobeynikova ROC |
| Team foil details | ROC Inna Deriglazova Larisa Korobeynikova Marta Martyanova Adelina Zagidullina | France Anita Blaze Astrid Guyart Pauline Ranvier Ysaora Thibus | Italy Martina Batini Erica Cipressa Arianna Errigo Alice Volpi |
| Individual sabre details | Sofia Pozdniakova ROC | Sofya Velikaya ROC | Manon Brunet France |
| Team sabre details | ROC Olga Nikitina Sofia Pozdniakova Sofya Velikaya | France Sara Balzer Cécilia Berder Manon Brunet Charlotte Lembach | South Korea Kim Ji-yeon Yoon Ji-su Seo Ji-yeon Choi Soo-yeon |
Sources: Olympics.com