Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Fencing
at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Fencing; at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Parque Polideportivo Roca
Dates	7–10 October 2018
No. of events	7
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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
NOC	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Épée	Foil	Sabre	Total
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
6	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 entries)		7	7	7	21

Events

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