The sabre is the only fencing weapon with a guard that fully covers ... Scoring occurs with any part of the blade, including the edges. The epee (the French word for 'sword') is the descendant of the ...

Epee: A thrusting sword descended from the dueling sword, similar in length to a foil but heavier, with a larger guard and a much stiffer blade Mask: Made of wire mesh with gaps of less than 1/10 of ...

Barely 16 years old, Catherine “Cat” Bouwkamp is the top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in the United States in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. She is currently the only ...

Here's what you need to know about fencing at the 2024 Paris ... The competitions are designated by blades — the foil, the ...

As the athletes shuffle into the fencing space, Coach Marat Israelian and his dog Sebastian, the team’s unofficial mascot, ...

Duke fencing entered last season with a string of question marks hanging over its head. After over a decade of top-10 ...

Penn men’s and women’s fencing got off to a hot start this weekend at the Temple Open. Both teams had representatives across ...

When an opposing blade hits me anywhere on my body, it sets off a sensor and awards my opponent a point, and vice versa. Pentathletes practice epee fencing, which means they compete round-robin ...

SINGAPORE – As an actor and model with no experience in the sport of fencing, Liu Hsiu-fu employed a mental trick to memorise the complex moves. “I began to see fencing as a form of dance ...

Cool, calm and collected describe sophomore Charlotte Koenig’s performance at the Temple Open this weekend to a tee. After ...

Coutya is aiming to compete at his third Paralympics in Paris Britain's Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver have both claimed Epee gold at the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships in Paris.

A disciple of the legendary fencing coach S. Radhakrishnan, he recollected how his academy had just one student when it opened in 2021, a number that has soared to 35 since then. An array of ...