Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre). Women competed in the foil and the épée events.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée	Pavel Kolobkov (RUS)	Hugues Obry (FRA)	22x20px Lee Sang-ki (KOR)
team épée	Italy (ITA) Angelo Mazzoni Paolo Milanoli Maurizio Randazzo Alfredo Rota	France (FRA) Jean-François di Martino Hugues Obry Éric Srecki	Cuba (CUB) Nelson Loyola Carlos Pedroso Iván Trevejo
Individual foil	22x20px Kim Young-ho (KOR)	Ralf Bißdorf (GER)	Dmitriy Shevchenko (RUS)
Men's team foil	France (FRA) Jean-Noel Ferrari Brice Guyart Patrice Lhotellier Lionel Plumenail	China (CHN) Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Ye Chong	Italy (ITA) Daniele Crosta Gabriele Magni Salvatore Sanzo Matteo Zennaro
Individual sabre	Mihai Covaliu (ROU)	Mathieu Gourdain (FRA)	Wiradech Kothny (GER)
team sabre	Russia (RUS) Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Frosin Stanislav Pozdnyakov	France (FRA) Mathieu Gourdain Julien Pillet Cédric Séguin Damien Touya	Germany (GER) Dennis Bauer Wiradech Kothny Alexander Weber

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Tímea Nagy (HUN)	Gianna Hablützel-Bürki (SUI)	Laura Flessel-Colovic (FRA)
team épée	Russia (RUS) Karina Aznavourian Oksana Yermakova Tatiana Logunova Maria Mazina	Switzerland (SUI) Gianna Hablützel-Bürki Sophie Lamon Diana Romagnoli	China (CHN) Li Na Liang Qin Yang Shaoqi
Individual foil	Valentina Vezzali (ITA)	Rita Koenig (GER)	Giovanna Trillini (ITA)
team foil	Italy (ITA) Diana Bianchedi Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali	Poland (POL) Sylwia Gruchała Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Anna Rybicka Barbara Wolnicka-Szewczyk	Germany (GER) Sabine Bau Rita König Monika Weber

Medal table

Italy finished top of the fencing medal table at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	0	2	5
2	Russia (RUS)	3	0	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
4	22x20px South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	1	0	0	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	2	3	5
8	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	0	2
9	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
10	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
11	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

A total of 217 fencers (134 men and 83 women) from 40 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

•  Algeria (2)
•  Argentina (3)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (6)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Canada (4)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (13)
•  Colombia (2)

•  Cuba (11)
•  Egypt (5)
•  Estonia (4)
•  France (16)
•  Germany (18)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  Hungary (13)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (17)
•  Japan (4)

•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Norway (3)
•  Poland (10)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (15)

• 23x15px Serbia and Montenegro (1)
• 23x15px South Korea (7)
•  Spain (4)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (5)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Ukraine (10)
•  United States (8)
•  Uzbekistan (1)
• 23x15px Venezuela (1)

External links

• Official Olympic Report