Olympic Games fencing results. Fencing

women Team saber women Qualification 4 1 2 7 2 2 1 1 4 3 1 3 0 4 4 1 1 1 3 5 1 0 1 2 6 1 0 0 1 7 0 2 2 4 8 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 10 0 0 1 1 Total 10 10 10 30

Medalists

Men

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Command foil
Saber

Women

Discipline Gold Silver Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Saber
Team saber

Russia
Sophia the Great
Yulia Gavrilova
Ekaterina Dyachenko
Yana Yegoryan 3 (in the lower left corner) Pierre silently peered intently into the aged face of (Prince) Andrei.
“No, I’m asking,” said Pierre, “but Prince Andrei interrupted him:
- What can I say about me... Tell me, tell me about your journey, about everything you did there on your estates?
Pierre began to talk about what he had done on his estates, trying as much as possible to hide his participation in the improvements he had made. Prince Andrei several times prompted Pierre ahead of what he was telling, as if everything that Pierre had done had happened a long time ago famous story, and listened not only not with interest, but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling.
Pierre felt awkward and even difficult in the company of his friend. He fell silent.
“But here’s what, my soul,” said Prince Andrei, who was obviously also having a hard time and shyness with his guest, “I’m here in bivouacs, and I came just to have a look.” I'm going back to my sister now. I'll introduce you to them. “Yes, you seem to know each other,” he said, obviously entertaining the guest with whom he now felt nothing in common. - We'll go after lunch. Now do you want to see my estate? “They went out and walked around until lunch, talking about political news and mutual acquaintances, like people who are not very close to each other. With some animation and interest, Prince Andrei spoke only about the new estate and construction he was organizing, but even here, in the middle of the conversation, on the stage, when Prince Andrei was describing to Pierre the future location of the house, he suddenly stopped. “But there’s nothing interesting here, let’s go have lunch and leave.” “At dinner the conversation turned to Pierre’s marriage.
“I was very surprised when I heard about this,” said Prince Andrei.
Pierre blushed the same way he always blushed at this, and said hastily:
“I’ll tell you someday how it all happened.” But you know that it's all over and forever.
- Forever? - said Prince Andrei. - Nothing happens forever.
– But do you know how it all ended? Have you heard about the duel?
- Yes, you went through that too.
“The one thing I thank God for is that I didn’t kill this man,” Pierre said.
- Why? - said Prince Andrei. – It’s even very good to kill an angry dog.
- No, killing a person is not good, it’s unfair...
- Why is it unfair? - repeated Prince Andrei; what is just and unjust is not given to people to judge. People have always been mistaken and will continue to be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider just and unjust.
“It is unfair that there is evil for another person,” said Pierre, feeling with pleasure that for the first time since his arrival, Prince Andrei became animated and began to speak and wanted to express everything that made him what he was now.
– Who told you what evil is for another person? – he asked.
- Evil? Evil? - said Pierre, - we all know what evil is for ourselves.
“Yes, we know, but the evil that I know for myself, I cannot do to another person,” Prince Andrei said more and more animatedly, apparently wanting to express his new look on things. He spoke French. Je ne connais l dans la vie que deux maux bien reels: c"est le remord et la maladie. II n"est de bien que l"absence de ces maux. [I know in life only two real misfortunes: remorse and illness. And the only good is the absence of these evils.] To live for yourself, avoiding only these two evils: that is all my wisdom now.
– What about love for one’s neighbor, and self-sacrifice? - Pierre spoke. - No, I cannot agree with you! To live only in such a way as not to do evil, so as not to repent? this is not enough. I lived like this, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live, at least try (Pierre corrected himself out of modesty) to live for others, only now I understand all the happiness of life. No, I don’t agree with you, and you don’t mean what you say.
Prince Andrei silently looked at Pierre and smiled mockingly.
“You’ll see your sister, Princess Marya.” You’ll get along with her,” he said. “Maybe you’re right for yourself,” he continued, after a short silence; - but everyone lives in their own way: you lived for yourself and you say that by doing this you almost ruined your life, and you only knew happiness when you began to live for others. But I experienced the opposite. I lived for fame. (After all, what is glory? the same love for others, the desire to do something for them, the desire for their praise.) So I lived for others, and not almost, but completely ruined my life. And since then I have become calmer, as I live for myself.
- How can you live for yourself? – Pierre asked heatedly. - And the son, and the sister, and the father?
“Yes, it’s still the same me, it’s not others,” said Prince Andrey, and others, neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, are the main source of error and evil. Le prochain [Neighbor] are those, your Kyiv men, to whom you want to do good.
And he looked at Pierre with a mockingly defiant gaze. He apparently called Pierre.
“You’re kidding,” Pierre said more and more animatedly. What kind of error and evil can there be in the fact that I wanted (very little and poorly fulfilled), but wanted to do good, and at least did something? What evil can it be that unfortunate people, our men, people just like us, growing up and dying without any other concept of God and truth, like ritual and meaningless prayer, will be taught in the comforting beliefs of a future life, retribution, reward, consolation? What evil and delusion is it that people die from illness without help, when it is so easy to help them financially, and I will give them a doctor, and a hospital, and a shelter for an old man? And isn’t it a tangible, undoubted blessing that a man, a woman and a child have no rest day and night, and I will give them rest and leisure?...” said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And I did it, at least poorly, at least a little, but I did something for this, and not only will you not disbelieve me that what I did was good, but you will also not disbelieve me, so that you yourself do not think so.” “And most importantly,” Pierre continued, “I know this, and I know it correctly, that the pleasure of doing this good is the only true happiness in life.
“Yes, if you put the question like that, then that’s a different matter,” said Prince Andrei. - I build a house, plant a garden, and you are a hospital. Both can serve as a pastime. And what is fair, what is good - leave it to the one who knows everything, and not to us, to judge. “Well, you want to argue,” he added, “come on.” “They left the table and sat on the porch, which served as a balcony.
“Well, let’s argue,” said Prince Andrei. “You say schools,” he continued, bending his finger, “teachings and so on, that is, you want to take him out of his animal state and give him moral needs,” he said, pointing to a man who took off his hat and walked past them. , but it seems to me that the only possible happiness is animal happiness, and you want to deprive it of it. I envy him, and you want to make him me, but without giving him my means. Another thing you say is to make his job easier. But in my opinion, physical labor is the same necessity for him, the same condition of his existence, as mental labor is for me and for you. You can't help but think. I go to bed at 3 o’clock, thoughts come to me, and I can’t sleep, I toss and turn, I don’t sleep until the morning because I’m thinking and I can’t help but think, just as he can’t help but plow and mow; otherwise he will go to the tavern, or he will become ill. Just as I cannot bear his terrible physical labor and die in a week, so he cannot bear my physical idleness, he will get fat and die. Third, what else did you say? – Prince Andrei bent his third finger.

Fencing - olympic sport, in which opponents fight using special sports edged weapons that are completely safe. Conventional fencing is not at all safe, because it is a combat discipline that was actively used during military operations in the past. But as happened with many martial arts, this discipline these days has also become exclusively sporting in nature.

Participants in fencing games

There will be 212 men and women attending the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, 106 each. Based on the results of the competition, 10 sets of medals will be awarded, 5 among women and 5 among men. One country can nominate no more than 16 fencers, and no more than 8 of them are women and men.

The International Fencing Federation uses the principle of discipline rotation for a competition such as the Olympics. The 2016 Summer Olympics will feature different fencing disciplines than were offered at the London Games four years ago. Then the command saber was for men, and the command foil for women. In Rio, the men will have a team epee and the women will have a team saber.

Disciplines common to men and women:

  • Sword;
  • Command sword;
  • Rapier;
  • Saber.

Summer Olympics participants must prove themselves in order to qualify for the Olympics. For this purpose, Olympic qualification of competitions is provided; each continent has its own qualification. All competitions are considered qualifying tournament. The selection is also influenced by the world ranking of athletes.

Fencing competition calendar

Competitions for those involved in fencing will take place from August 6 to 14. Finals of competitions in a particular discipline will be held daily. Schedule:

  • August 6: individual epee championship, women;
  • August 7: men's individual foil championship;
  • August 8: Women's individual saber championship;
  • August 9: individual epee championship, men;
  • August 10: women's individual championship in foil, men's individual championship in saber;
  • August 11: Women's epee team championship;
  • August 12: men's team championship in foil;
  • August 13: Women's saber team championship;
  • August 14: men's team epee championship.

In each discipline, to win you need to inflict a certain number of blows or injections on your opponent first. The competition is given a certain period of time, after which the fight ends.

Athletes compete in protective clothing: they have jackets made of metallic fabric and masks with rigid mesh. The hand that is not holding the weapon must wear a glove. The weapon is connected to the electrical panel. If a fencer strikes an opponent, this is recorded on the shield and a light comes on. If the blow was of insufficient power, for example, when the athlete only slid over the opponent, the injection is not recorded by the electrical system.

Rapier and sword require thrusting, but with a saber you can already deliver a chopping blow. Each type of weapon has a guard that protects the working hand from damage. Disciplines differ in the parts of the body allowed to strike.

For the fight, a fencing track is used. Its length is 14 meters.

The fencers competed already at the very first Olympic Games modern times (1896). Fencing is one of the four sports that were included in the program of all Olympics without exception. Participants in the 1896 Olympic Games competed in foil and saber wrestling (men only). The strongest among the foil fighters was the Frenchman Y.-A. Gravelotte, and among the saber fencers the Greek I. Georgiadis.

Another feature of fencing is how Olympic discipline is that already at the very first Olympic Games, professionals (fencing instructors) - the so-called masters - were allowed to participate. This peculiar privilege was noted in the rules developed by the founder of modern Olympism, Baron P. de Coubertin. Master foil fencers took part in the Games of 1896 and 1900. In 1900, they were joined by epee fencers and saber fencers, who also competed at the intermediate Olympic Games of 1906.

Since 1904, the team championship in foil fencing has been played at the Olympic Games (the first champions are the Cuban team), and since 1906 - in saber (Germany). Epee competitions were also added to the program: from 1900 - personal (R. Fonst, Cuba), from 1906 - team (France).

Women first took part in Olympic fencing competitions (foil) in 1924 (the winner was the Danish E. Osier). Team foil competitions were included in the program in 1960 (the first champions were athletes from the USSR; currently, women's team foil is excluded from Olympic program). Since 1996, women have also competed in epee fencing (in Atlanta, the French women excelled: both in the team and individual competitions - L. Flezzel). At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, competitions among saber fencers in the individual competition were held for the first time (M. Zagunis, USA won).

There are among Olympic champions fencing their own record holders. The Italian N. Nadi is the only fencer who won 5 gold medals at one Olympic tournament (in 1920): in personal - foil and saber - and all three team types of the program (another gold medal he received at the Games in 1912 for winning the foil tournament). His compatriot E. Mangiarotti collected the largest collection of Olympic awards among all fencers - 13 (6+5+2), the athlete won them at five Olympic Games (1936–1960) in duels (individual and team) on epee and foil. The Hungarian saber fencer A. Gerevich is the only athlete in history to win six Olympics in a row (from 1932 to 1960), while in 1948 he won gold in both the individual and team competitions, and the last of his highest awards received at age 50. Another famous Hungarian saber fencer R. Karpathy participated in four Games, winning 6 gold medals.

It should be noted that until the mid-1950s, fencers from Hungary (saber), as well as Italy and France (rapier and epee) were the undisputed favorites Olympic competitions– and world fencing in general. (For example, Hungarian saber fencers won gold nine times between 1908 and 1960. team competitions at the Olympic Games - they won another title in 1988). But in the end In the 1950s–1960s, they had serious competitors, primarily in the form of athletes from the USSR, as well as fencers from Germany, Poland and some other countries. Our team of foil fencers set a collective record by winning the Olympic tournament four times (in 1960, 1968, 1972 and 1976).