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Fencing At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's épée
The women's épée event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 24 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe. 34 fencers from 18 nations competed. The medals for the competition were presented by Giovanni Malagò, Italy; IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Donald Anthony Jr., United States; FIE Vice President. Background This will be the 7th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since 1996. The reigning Olympic champion is Emese Szász of Hungary. The reigning (2019) World Champion is Nathalie Moellhausen of Brazil. Qualification A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified fencers in the women's épée. Nations were limited to three fencers each from 1996 to 2004. However, the 2008 Games introduced a rotation of women's team fencing events with one weapon left off each Games; the individual event without a corresponding team event had the number of fencers per nation reduced to two. Women's épée was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makuhari Messe
is a Japanese convention center outside Tokyo, located in the Mihama-ku ward of Chiba City, in the northwest corner of Chiba Prefecture. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, it is accessible by Tokyo's commuter rail system. ''Makuhari'' is the name of the area, and Messe is a German language word meaning "trade fair". The convention center opened on October 9, 1989. It hosts many high-technology events. Makuhari Messe is close to Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, and to Chiba prefecture's black sand beaches. It is accessible from Kaihimmakuhari station on the Keiyō Line of East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The center is the host of the annual Tokyo Auto Salon (modified car show, in January), the biennial Tokyo Motor Show (in October), the annual Tokyo Game Show (video game hardware and software exhibition, in September), the annual Jump Festa (manga, anime, and video game exposition, in December), and the biannual Wonder Festival (toys, scale figures, and garage kits exposition, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Sheng
Lin Sheng (; born 5 January 1994) is a Chinese fencer. Lin is from Fuzhou, Fujian. She won a gold medal in the girls' épée event at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She was part of the Chinese girls' team which won gold in the team épée event at the 2011 Junior World Fencing Championships. At the 2015 International Fencing Federation Épée Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro, she placed 40th. She won gold in the team épée event at the 2014 Asian Fencing Championships, along with teammates Qin Xue, Sun Yiwen, and Sun Yujie. She withdrew from the competition to represent China in fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics The fencing competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 14 August at the Carioca Arena 3 inside the Barra Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca. Around 212 fencers (an equal distribution between men and women; of wh ... due to health issues, but recovered later that year, and won gold in the women's individual épée event at the 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Kong
Vivian Kong Man Wai (born 8 February 1994) is a Hong Kong left-handed épée Fencing, fencer, three-time individual Asian champion, and two-time Olympic Games, Olympian. Career Kong competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She became the first fencer from Hong Kong to win a World Cup title when she won the Fencing World Cup, FIE Women's Épée World Cup in Havana, Cuba in January 2019. She won one of the bronze medals in the Women's épée at the 2022 World Fencing Championships, women's épée event at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt. Medal record World Championship Grand Prix World Cup Asian Championship References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kong, Vivian 1994 births Living people Canadian emigrants to Hong Kong Canadian people of Hong Kong descent Hong Kong female épée fencers Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2020 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Luisa Doig
María Luisa Doig Calderón (born August 13, 1991 in Lima) is a Peruvian foil and epee fencer. At age sixteen, Doig made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual foil event. She lost the first preliminary round match to Germany's Katja Wächter Katja Wächter (born 28 January 1982 in Leipzig, Sachsen) is a German foil fencer. In 2009, Wachter won a silver medal for the same weapon at the European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and bronze, as a member of the German fencing team, at ..., with a score of 4–15. References External linksProfile– FIENBC 2008 Olympics profile Peruvian female foil fencers Living people Olympic fencers for Peru Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Lima 1991 births Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Peruvian female épée fencers 21st-century Peruvian women Fencers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games {{Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renata Knapik-Miazga
Renata Knapik-Miazga (born 15 July 1988) is a Polish épée fencer, bronze medallist at the 2013 European Fencing Championships. Career Knapik took up fencing at a club in Kraków after playing with sticks as a child. When she was 14, she was forbidden by her doctors to continue fencing because of problems with her right hand. She switched her weapon hand and went on. She won both an individual and team bronze medal at the 2007 Junior European Championships, then a silver medal at the 2011 U23 European Championships. In the senior category she climbed her first World Cup podium in 2010 with a third place in Florina. She was national champion of Poland in 2012 and 2013. At the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb she reached the quarter-finals by defeating Ukraine's Anfisa Pochkalova, then lost to Romania's Ana Maria Brânză and came away with a bronze medal. Knapik studies civil engineering from the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology Cracow University of Techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Kryvytska
Olena Serhiyivna Kryvytska ( uk, Олена Сергіївна Кривицька, translit=Olena Sehijjivna Kryvyc'ka; born 23 February 1987) is a Ukrainian fencer who has won three world championship bronze medals. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's épée, and was defeated in the second round. She was also part of the Ukrainian women's épée team that finished in 8th place. She originally took up fencing in Ternopil, Ukraine, having moved there from Russia in the early 1990s. In March 2022, speaking of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ..., she said her fellow athletes from Russia: "need to pick a side. Too many are keeping quiet and saying nothing. That's not acceptable, because they're involved; they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelley Hurley
Kelley Hurley (born April 4, 1988) is an American épée fencer. She won the bronze medal in the women's team épée event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. A standout at the University of Notre Dame, she was a 4-time All-American. She has qualified to represent the United States in fencing at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Coached by their father, Bob Hurley, Kelley and her younger sister Courtney have competed on World Teams together since Kelley was 17. Kelley qualified for her first Olympic Team in 2008 as the only women's épée fencer from the United States to do so. In 2012, Hurley qualified for her second team as a replacement athlete. Hurley won bronze in the team event as a member of the first U.S. Women's Épée Team ever to earn an Olympic medal. Hurley went into the Rio 2016 Olympics ranked 18th in the world in the individual épée. See also *List of USFA Division I National Champions This is a list of USA Fencing (USFA) Division I national champions. The Divisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Kirpu
Erika Kirpu (born 22 June 1992) is an Estonia, Estonian right-handed épée Fencing, fencer. Kirpu is a two-time team European champion and 2017 team world champion. A two-time Olympic Games, Olympian, Kirpu is a 2021 team Olympic champion. Kirpu competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games and the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. She graduated from :et:Tartu Annelinna Gümnaasium, Tartu Annelinna Gümnaasium in 2010 and from the Faculty of Law of Tallinn University of Technology in 2014. She lives in Milan, Italy with her partner and fellow épée fencer Enrico Garozzo. Medal Record Olympic Games World Championship European Championship Grand Prix World Cup References External links * 1992 births Living people Estonian female épée fencers Fencers at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in fencing Olympic fencers for Estonia Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics European Games silver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi In-jeong
Choi In-Jeong (; ; born 21 May 1990) is a South Korean right-handed épée fencer, three-time team Asian champion, two-time individual Asian champion, three-time Olympian, and two-time team Olympic silver medalist. Choi competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Choi began fencing in junior high and made her international debut in 2011, at the World Cup event in Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T .... Medal record Olympic Games World Championship Asian Championship Grand Prix World Cup References External links * 1990 births Living people Fencers from Seoul South Korean female épée fencers Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaylin Hsieh
Kaylin Hsieh Sin-yan (born 19 May 2001) is a Hong Kong fencer. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's team épée event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2021, she represented Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. In 2018, she also won the silver medal in the girls' épée event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the opening ceremony of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics she carried the flag for Hong Kong. At the 2018 Asian Fencing Championships in Bangkok, Thailand, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's individual épée event. She also won the silver medal in the women's team épée event. In 2019, she won the bronze medal in the women's team épée at the Asian Fencing Championships held in Chiba, Japan. In 2021, she competed in the women's épée event at the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aizanat Murtazaeva
Aizanat Makhachevna Murtazaeva (russian: Айзанат Махачевна Муртазаева; born 23 September 2001 in Khunzakh, Dagestan) is a Russian right-handed épée fencer and 2021 Olympian. Murtazaeva competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ..., where she placed fourth in individual women's épée. She won two bronze medals at the 2019 and 2021 Russian Championships. Medal Record World Cup References 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Moscow Fencers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Russian female épée fencers Olympic fencers for Russia World Cadets and Juniors Fencing Championships medalists 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
