In Olympic fencing, the first fencer to 15 points wins. Bouts last a maximum of nine minutes and, if still tied, go to a one-minute sudden death overtime. Epee, unlike foil and saber, allows ...

The action-packed women’s individual epee competition concluded with world No. 1 Vivian Kong making history by becoming the first woman to win Hong Kong a fencing medal. China’s defending Olympic gold ...

The Olympic fencing competitions continue on Sunday, July 28 with the women’s individual foil and men’s individual epee events. American Lee Kiefer, the defending gold medalist from Tokyo, is the ...

TAKASAKI, Gunma Prefecture--Kazuyasu Minobe, who won Japan’s first Olympic gold medal in fencing in the men’s team epee event on July 30, trembled when he received a surprise 100-million-yen ( ...

Fencing made its Olympic debut in 1896 in Athens at the first ... the épée and the sabre. The foil and epee are pointed ...

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 ... about the 1936 Olympic champion's ...

Giulia Rizzi was taught the "French school" of fencing and she reaped the rewards of her stay on the other side of the Alps when she led Italy to the Olympic title in the women's epee team event ...

From a small village in Ramban to international recognition, Sufiyan Waheed Sohil is not just a fencing champion but a beacon ...

Switzerland's only Olympic entrant in the men's épée fencing competition has missed out on the bronze medal by a single point. Marcel Fischer was beaten 16-15 in the third-place play-off by the ...