Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's team foil

Men's team foil
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Men's team foil; at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
	Olympic fencing
Venue	Makuhari Messe
Date	1 August 2021
Competitors	35 from 9 nations
Medalists
	← 2016 2024 →

The men's team foil event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 1 August 2021 at the Makuhari Messe.^[1] 27 fencers (9 teams of 3) from 9 nations are expected to compete.^[2]

Background

This will be the 24th appearance of the event. It was first held in 1904, but omitted in 1908 (when no foil medal events were held) and 1912 (when it was the only one of the six possible men's events not included). The men's team foil returned in 1920 and has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1920 except 2008 (during the time when team events were rotated off the schedule, with only two of the three weapons for each of the men's and women's categories).

The reigning Olympic champion is Russia (Aleksey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin, and Timur Safin). The reigning World Champion is the United States (Miles Chamley-Watson, Race Imboden, Alexander Massialas, and Gerek Meinhardt). A preview from Olympics.com identified 2016 individual gold medalist Daniele Garozzo as the leader of a strong Italian team that will compete with the United States (especially 2016 silver medalist Massialas) and France (especially 2019 individual World Champion Enzo Lefort) for the team and individual medals in foil.^[3]

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a team of 3 fencers in the men's team foil. These fencers also automatically qualified for the individual event.^[2]

There are 8 dedicated quota spots for men's team foil. They are allocated as through the world team ranking list of 5 April 2021. The top 4 spots, regardless of geographic zone, qualify (United States, France, Italy, and ROC). The next four spots are allocated to separate geographic zones, as long as an NOC from that zone is in the top 16. These places went to Hong Kong (Asia/Oceania), Canada (Americas), Egypt (Africa), and Germany (Europe).^[2]

Additionally, there are 8 host/invitational spots that can be spread throughout the various fencing events.^[2] Japan qualified one men's foil fencer through normal individual qualification and used two host quota places to complete a men's foil team.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for fencing, moving the close of the rankings period back to April 5, 2021 rather than the original April 4, 2020.^[2]^[4]

Competition format

The 2020 tournament is a single-elimination tournament, with classification matches for all places. Each match features the three fencers on each team competing in a round-robin, with 9 three-minute bouts to 5 points; the winning team is the one that reaches 45 total points first or is leading after the end of the nine bouts. Standard foil rules regarding target area, striking, and priority are used.^[5]^[6]

Schedule

The competition is held over a single day, Sunday, 1 August. The first session runs from 9 a.m. to approximately 4 p.m. (when all matches except the bronze and gold medal finals are expected to conclude), after which there is a break until 6:30 p.m. before the medal bouts are held.^[1]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 1 August 2021	9:00 18:30	Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Classification 7/8 Classification 5/6 Bronze medal match Gold medal match

Results

Round of 16		Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final






		United States	45

		Germany	36
Canada	31

Germany	45
				United States	41

				ROC	45



		Hong Kong	39

		ROC	45



						ROC	28

						France	45



		Italy	43

		Japan	45



				Japan	42

				France	45	Bronze medal bout



		Egypt	34			United States	45

		France	45			Japan	31

5–8th place classification

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place bout



Germany	45

Hong Kong	38
		Germany

		Italy	WD
Italy	45

Egypt	30
		Seventh place bout



		Hong Kong	45

		Egypt	21

Final classification

Rank	Team	Athlete
	France	Erwann Le Péchoux Enzo Lefort Julien Mertine Maxime Pauty
	ROC	Anton Borodachev Kirill Borodachev Vladislav Mylnikov Timur Safin
	United States	Race Imboden Nick Itkin Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt
4	Japan	Kyosuke Matsuyama Yudai Nagano Toshiya Saito Takahiro Shikine
5	Italy	Giorgio Avola Andrea Cassarà Alessio Foconi Daniele Garozzo
6	Germany	Peter Joppich Benjamin Kleibrink Luis Klein André Sanità
7	Hong Kong	Cheung Ka-long Cheung Siu Lun Ryan Choi Lawrence Ng
8	Egypt	Alaaeldin Abouelkassem Mohamed Hamza Mohamed Hassan Youssef Sanaa
9	Canada	Blake Broszus Alex Cai Maximilien Van Haaster

References

^ ^a ^b "Fencing Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ "Everything you need to know about Olympic fencing at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
^ Academy of Fencing Masters
^ NBC
^ "Fencing". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

External links

Draw Archived 1 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine

[Dates-1] "Fencing Competition Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[Qualifying-2] "Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Fencing" (PDF). Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.

[Tokyo2020Preview-3] "Everything you need to know about Olympic fencing at Tokyo 2020". Tokyo 2020. 20 March 2021. Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

[Academy-4] Academy of Fencing Masters

[NBC-5] NBC

[Tokyo2020Summary-6] "Fencing". Archived from the original on 3 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

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