# Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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.
The women's individual épée semi final became a notable controversy at the 2012 Olympics when a time-keeping error by a games volunteer helped German Britta Heidemann beat South Korea's Shin A-lam. Despite there being two hundredths of a second remaining in the match, the timer could only be reset to a whole second after the mistake. The extra time was enough for the German to score a winning attack and proceed to the final.

## Qualification

Qualification was primarily based on the ind. 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 |
| 5 | Venezuela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Russia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Egypt | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | United States | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 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

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Rubén Limardo Venezuela | Bartosz Piasecki Norway | Jung Jin-sun South Korea |
| Individual foil details | Lei Sheng China | Alaaeldin Abouelkassem Egypt | Choi Byung-chul South Korea |
| Team foil details | 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 details | Áron Szilágyi Hungary | Diego Occhiuzzi Italy | Nikolay Kovalev Russia |
| Team sabre details | 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

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Yana Shemyakina Ukraine | Britta Heidemann Germany | Sun Yujie China |
| Team épée details | 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 details | Elisa Di Francisca Italy | Arianna Errigo Italy | Valentina Vezzali Italy |
| Team foil details | 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 details | Kim Ji-yeon South Korea | Sofiya Velikaya Russia | Olha Kharlan Ukraine |