Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Fencing at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Parque Polideportivo Roca
Dates	7–10 October 2018
No. of events	7

Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Épée	Boys	Girls
Foil	Boys	Girls
Sabre	Boys	Girls
Team			Mixed

Fencing events at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics will be held from 7 to 10 October in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The competition will be held at the Parque Polideportivo Roca.

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 6 competitors, 3 per each gender and 1 per each weapon. 66 places was decided at the 2018 Cadet World Championships held in Verona, Italy from 1–9 April 2018.^[1] Ten athletes per each individual event (1 from Africa, 2 from the Americas, 3 from Asia/Oceania and 4 from Europe) qualified. Furthermore, the top six ranked individual athletes that have not qualified overall across all genders will also qualify, with a maximum one per event per NOC (2 from Oceania and 1 from the other four continents). As hosts, Argentina is able to enter athletes in all six events and a further three wildcards were awarded per gender. These were awarded to: Costa Rica, Lebanon, Togo, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Senegal.^[2]

To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003.^[2]

NOC	Boys			Girls			Total
	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Épée	Foil	Sabre
Algeria				X		X	2
Argentina	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Australia		X			X		2
Austria	X						1
Belgium				X			1
Bulgaria						X	1
Canada	X			X	X		3
China	X	X*	X		X	X	4
Costa Rica				X			1
Denmark		X					1
Egypt	X	X	X	X	X		5
France		X	X				2
Germany	X		X				2
Hong Kong		X		X	X	X	4
Hungary			X	X	X	X	4
Iraq			X				1
Italy	X	X		X	X	X	5
Japan	X		X		X		3
Kazakhstan				X			1
Kyrgyzstan	X						1
Lebanon				X			1
Mexico		X				X	2
Philippines		X					1
Poland		X			X		2
Puerto Rico			X				1
Romania			X		X		2
Russia	X			X		X	3
Saudi Arabia			X				1
Senegal			X				1
South Korea		X	X	X		X	4
Spain			X				1
Chinese Taipei		X					1
Togo					X		1
United States	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Venezuela					X		1
35 NOCs	11	14	15	14	14	11	78

*Withdrew

Schedule

The schedule is expected to be released by the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary	2	0	0	2
–	Mixed-NOCs	1	1	1	3
2	Italy	1	1	0	2
3	France	1	0	0	1
	Japan	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
6	South Korea	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
8	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
11	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		7	7	7	21

Events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' Épée	Davide di Veroli  Italy	Paul Veltrup  Germany	Khasan Baudunov  Kyrgyzstan
Boys' Foil	Armand Spichiger  France	Kenji Bravo  United States	Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen  Denmark
Boys' Sabre	Krisztian Rabb  Hungary	Jun Hyun  South Korea	Mazen Elaraby  Egypt
Girls' Épée	Kateryna Chorniy  Ukraine	Hsieh Kaylin Sin Yan  Hong Kong	Veronika Bieleszova  Czech Republic
Girls' Foil	Yuka Ueno  Japan	Martina Favaretto  Italy	May Tieu  United States
Girls' Sabre	Liza Pusztai  Hungary	Natalia Botello  Mexico	Lee Ju-eun  South Korea
Mixed Team Event	EUROPE 1 Kateryna Chorniy  Ukraine Martina Favaretto  Italy Liza Pusztai  Hungary Davide di Veroli  Italy Armand Spichiger  France Krisztian Rabb  Hungary	ASIA-OCEANIA 1 Hsieh Kaylin Sin Yan  Hong Kong Yuka Ueno  Japan Lee Ju-eun  South Korea Khasan Baudunov  Kyrgyzstan Chen Yi-tung  Hong Kong Jun Hyun  South Korea	AMERICAS 1 Emily Vermeule  United States May Tieu  United States Natalia Botello  Mexico Isaac Herbst  United States Kenji Bravo  United States Robert Vidovszky  United States

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