Rio Olympics fencing: Recap and medal count

Medal count and full results for the 2016 Rio Olympics fencing competition; Team USA finishes with four medals.

Olympics fencing concluded its run at the 2016 Rio Olympics Sunday, as Team USA finished with four medals: in the men’s individual foil (silver), men’s individual sabre (silver), men’s team foil (bronze) and women’s team sabre (bronze).

Alexander Massialas and Daryl Homer finished close competitions in their respective individual matches, but neither could muster gold. The men’s team foil squad was made up of Gerek Meinhardt, Miles Chamley-Watson, Alexander Massialas, and Race Imboden.

The only medal that the United States women were able to take home was the bronze in women’s team sabre. That team was made up of Mariel Zagunis, Dagmara Wozniak, Ibtihaj Muhammad, and Monica Aksamit. The only other time the women were close to a medal was in the women’s team epee event, where sisters Courtney and Kelley Hurley and teammates Katharine Holmes and Katarzyna Trzopek reached fifth place.

Results for all Olympics fencing competitions at the 2016 Rio Olympics:

Women’s Individual Epee:

Gold Medal: Emese Szasz, Hungary

Silver Medal: Rossella Fiamingo, Italy

Bronze Medal: Sun Yiwen, China

4^th Place: Lauren Rembi, France

Men’s Individual Foil:

Gold Medal: Daniele Garozzo, Italy

Silver Medal: Alexander Massialas, United States

Bronze Medal: Timur Safin, Russia

4^th Place: Richard Kruse, Great Britain

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – AUGUST 13: Yana Egorian of Russia competes against Alina Komashchuk of Ukraine during the Women’s Sabre Team gold medal match between Russia and Ukraine on Day 8 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Carioca Arena 3 on August 13, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /

Women’s Individual Sabre:

Gold Medal: Yana Egorian, Russia

Silver Medal: Sofiya Velikaya, Russia

Bronze Medal: Olga Kharlan, Ukraine

4^th Place: Manon Brunet, France

Men’s Individual Epee:

Gold Medal: Park Sang Young, South Korea

Silver Medal: Geza Imre, Hungary

Bronze Medal: Gauthier Grumier, France

4^th Place: Benjamin Steffen, Switzerland

Women’s Individual Foil:

Gold Medal: Inna Deriglazova, Russia

Silver Medal: Elisa di Francisca, Italy

Bronze Medal: Ines Boubakri, Tunisia

4^th Place: Aida Shanaeva, Russia

Men’s Individual Sabre:

Gold Medal: Aron Szilagyi, Hungary

Silver Medal: Daryl Homer, United States

Bronze Medal: Kim Jung-Hwan, South Korea

4^th Place: Mojtaba Abedini, Iran

Women’s Team Epee:

Gold Medal: Romania

Silver Medal: China

Bronze Medal: Russia

4^th Place: Estonia

Men’s Team Foil:

Gold Medal: Russia

Silver Medal: France

Bronze Medal: United States

4^th Place: Italy

Women’s Team Sabre:

Gold Medal: Russia

Silver Medal: Ukraine

Bronze Medal: United States

4^th Place: Italy

Men’s Team Epee:

Gold Medal: France

Silver Medal: Italy

Bronze Medal: Hungary

4^th Place: Ukraine

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