Competitive fencing was one of the first sports to be featured in the Olympics and, along with athletics, cycling, swimming, and gymnastics, has been featured in every modern Olympics. The 1904 Olympics Games featured a fourth discipline of fencing known as singlestick, but it was dropped after that year and is not a part of modern fencing. Scoring points in a fencing competition is done by making contact with an opponent. The Italian school altered the historical European martial art of classical fencing, and the French school later refined that system. The modern sport gained prominence near the end of the 19th century and is based on the traditional skill set of swordsmanship. Most competitive fencers specialize in one discipline. The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber) each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules. Épée Fencing, Foil Fencing, Sabre Fencingįencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. Part of Summer Paralympic programme since 1960 Part of Summer Olympic programme since 1896 Final of the Challenge Réseau Ferré de France–Trophée Monal 2012, épée world cup tournament in Paris.īetween the 17th and 19th centuries Europe
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