Fencing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

Fencing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 17 to 20 August at the Nanjing International Expo Center in Nanjing, China.

Fencing at the II Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Nanjing International Expo Center
Dates	17–20 August

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 6 competitors, 3 per each gender and 1 per each weapon. 60 places will be decided at the 2014 Cadet World Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from 3–12 April 2014.[1] The top 4 European, top 2 American, top 2 Asian/Oceania and top African fencers from each event will qualify. Furthermore, the top 2 Oceania fencers and the top fencer from Africa, Americas, Asia and Europe across all events not yet qualified will also qualify. As hosts, China was given the maximum quota should they not qualify, but declined to use those extra spots and a further 12, 6 in each gender was initially given by the Tripartite Commission, but only nine spots were used.[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 1999.[2]

NOC	Boys			Girls			Total
	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Épée	Foil	Sabre
Algeria		X				X	2
Argentina			X				1
Australia		X					1
Bolivia					X		1
Brazil		X			X		2
Brunei			X				1
Canada	X				X		2
China		X	X		X		3
Croatia		X					1
Egypt	X		X	X	X		4
France		X			X		2
Georgia			X				1
Germany	X	X					2
Greece			X		X	X	3
Hong Kong	X	X			X		3
Hungary	X			X	X	X	4
Iraq			X				1
Italy	X	X		X	X	X	5
Jamaica				X			1
Japan				X	X	X	3
Jordan				X			1
Kazakhstan			X				1
South Korea	X	X	X	X		X	5
Kuwait			X				1
Lebanon		X					1
Mexico						X	1
New Zealand	X						1
Niger	X						1
Poland		X		X	X	X	4
Puerto Rico						X	1
Romania			X				1
Russia	X		X		X	X	4
Senegal						X	1
Sweden	X			X			2
Syria	X						1
Togo						X	1
Tunisia			X				1
Turkey						X	1
Ukraine				X			1
United States	X	X	X	X	X		5
40 NOCs	13	13	14	11	14	13	78

Schedule

The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.[3]

All times are CST (UTC+8)

Event Date	Event Day	Starting Time	Event Details
August 17	Sunday	09:30	Girls' Foil
August 17	Sunday	13:15	Boys' Sabre
August 18	Monday	09:30	Girls' Épée
August 18	Monday	13:15	Boys' Épée
August 19	Tuesday	09:30	Boys' Foil
August 19	Tuesday	13:15	Girls' Sabre
August 20	Wednesday	09:30	Mixed Team

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	2	0	1	3
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
4	Poland (POL)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
6	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
8	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
10	China (CHN)	0	0	2	2
11	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		6	6	6	18

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' Épée	Patrik Esztergályos  Hungary	Linus Islas Flygare  Sweden	Ivan Limarev  Russia
Boys' Foil	Andrzej Rządkowski  Poland	Choi Chun Yin Ryan  Hong Kong	Enguerand Roger  France
Boys' Sabre	Ivan Ilin  Russia	Kim Dong-ju  South Korea	Yan Yinghui  China
Girls' Épée	Lee Sin-hee  South Korea	Eleonora De Marchi  Italy	Åsa Linde  Sweden
Girls' Foil	Sabrina Massialas  United States	Karin Miyawaki  Japan	Huang Ali  China
Girls' Sabre	Alina Moseyko  Russia	Chiara Crovari  Italy	Petra Záhonyi  Hungary
Mixed Team Event	Team Asia-Oceania 1 Chien Kei Hsu Albert  Hong Kong Choi Chun Yin Ryan  Hong Kong Misaki Emura  Japan Kim Dong-ju  South Korea Lee Sin-hee  South Korea Karin Miyawaki  Japan	Team Europe 1 Patrik Esztergályos  Hungary Marta Martyanova  Russia Ivan Ilin  Russia Eleonora De Marchi  Italy Andrzej Rządkowski  Poland Alina Moseyko  Russia	Team Europe 2 Chiara Crovari  Italy Marios Giakoumatos  Greece Linus Islas Flygare  Sweden Åsa Linde  Sweden Enguerand Roger  France Anna Szymczak  Poland

References

1. "2014 Youth Olympic Games - Nanjing FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE. 10 July 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
2. "Qualification System: Fencing" (PDF). FIE. June 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2014.
3. "Sport Explanatory Brochure: Fencing" (PDF). Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.

External links

• Official Results Book – Fencing