title: Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
text: # Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification
  
  Qualification will be primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as of April 2, 2012, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments. Teams will be composed of 3 fencers. For teams to qualify they must be ranked in the top 16, if a continent is not ranked in the top 16 the next best placed country will take their spot.
  
  ## Summary
  
  | Nation | Men | Men | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women | Women | Women | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Nation | Individual | Individual | Individual | Team | Team | Individual | Individual | Individual | Team | Team | | Total |
  | Nation | Épée | Foil | Sabre | Foil | Sabre | Épée | Foil | Sabre | Épée | Foil | Total |
  | Algeria | | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 |
  | Argentina | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
  | Austria | | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Azerbaijan | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
  | Belarus | | | 3 | | X | | | | | | 3 |
  | Brazil | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | 3 |
  | Bulgaria | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
  | Canada | | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 5 |
  | Chile | 1 | | | | | 1 | | | | | 2 |
  | China | 1 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 3 | 1 | 2 | X | | 13 |
  | Colombia | | | | | | | 1 | | | | 1 |
  | Croatia | | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Egypt | 1 | 3 | 1 | X | | 1 | 3 | 1 | | X | 10 |
  | Estonia | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | France | 2 | 3 | 1 | X | | 1 | 3 | 1 | | X | 11 |
  | Great Britain | | 3 | 1 | X | | 1 | 3 | 2 | | X | 10 |
  | Germany | 1 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 3 | 1 | 1 | X | | 12 |
  | Greece | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
  | Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 6 |
  | Hungary | 1 | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | | | | 4 |
  | Indonesia | | | | | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
  | Iran | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Italy | 1 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 15 |
  | Japan | | 3 | | X | | 1 | 3 | 1 | | X | 8 |
  | Kazakhstan | 2 | | | | | | | 1 | | | 3 |
  | Lebanon | | 1 | | | | | 1 | | | | 2 |
  | Malaysia | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Mexico | | 1 | | | | | | 1 | | | 2 |
  | Morocco | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | 2 |
  | Netherlands | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Norway | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Poland | 1 | | 1 | | | 1 | 3 | 1 | | X | 7 |
  | Romania | | 1 | 3 | | X | 3 | | 1 | X | | 8 |
  | Russia | 1 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 15 |
  | South Korea | 2 | 1 | 3 | | X | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 14 |
  | Senegal | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Switzerland | 2 | | | | | 1 | | | | | 3 |
  | Chinese Taipei | | | | | | 1 | | | | | 1 |
  | Tunisia | | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | 6 |
  | Ukraine | 1 | | 1 | | | 3 | 1 | 1 | X | | 7 |
  | United States | 2 | 3 | 3 | X | X | 3 | 3 | 2 | X | X | 16 |
  | Uzbekistan | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Venezuela | 2 | | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 6 |
  | Vietnam | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 1 |
  | Total: 44 NOCs | 30 | 38 | 37 | 9 | 8 | 37 | 38 | 32 | 8 | 9 | 212 |
  
  ## Qualification timeline
  
  | Event | Date | Venue |
  | - | - | - |
  | Cut-off FIE Official Ranking | April 2, 2012 | – |
  | Zonal Qualifier – Europe | April 21–22, 2012 | Bratislava |
  | Zonal Qualifier – Asia/Oceania | April 20–21, 2012 | Wakayama |
  | Zonal Qualifier – America | April 20–22, 2012 | Santiago |
  | Zonal Qualifier – Africa | April 19, 2012 | Casablanca |
  
  ## Qualification
  
  ### Men's Individual Épée
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top 12 individual AOR | 12 | Paolo Pizzo (ITA) Fabian Kauter (SUI) Bas Verwijlen (NED) Park Kyoung-doo (KOR) Nikolai Novosjolov (EST) Gauthier Grumier (FRA) Max Heinzer (SUI) Soren Thompson (USA) Géza Imre (HUN) Elmir Alimzhanov (KAZ) Silvio Fernández (VEN) Jung Jin-sun (KOR) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Yannick Borel (FRA) Jörg Fiedler (GER) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Li Guojie (CHN) Dmitriy Alexanin (KAZ) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Rubén Limardo (VEN) Weston Kelsey (USA) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Africa | 2 | Alexandre Bouzaid (SEN) Ayman Mohamed Fayez (EGY) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 4 | Dmytro Karyuchenko (UKR) Radosław Zawrotniak (POL) Bartosz Piasecki (NOR) Pavel Sukhov (RUS) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 3 | Ruslan Kudayev (UZB) Nguyen Tien Nhat (VIE) Leung Ka Ming (HKG) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 2 | Paris Inostroza (CHI) Athos Schwantes (BRA) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Abdelkarim El Haouari (MAR) |
  | Host country option | ** | |
  | | 30 | |
  
  ### Men's Team Foil
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking | 4 | Italy France |
  | Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 | 1 | Russia |
  | Top team from Asia/Oceania in positions 5–16 | 1 | |
  | Top team from America in positions 5–16 | 1 | United States |
  | Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 | 1 | Egypt |
  | Host country option | 1 | Great Britain |
  | | 9 | |
  
  ### Men's Individual Foil
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Members of qualifying teams | 24 | |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Roland Schlosser (AUT) Richard Kruse (GBR) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Choi Byung-chul (KOR) Nicholas Edward Choi (HKG) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Daniel Gomez (MEX) Étienne Lalonde Turbide (CAN) |
  | Top individual AOR: Africa | 1 | Mohamed Samandi (TUN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 2 | Bojan Jovanović (CRO) Radu Dărăban (ROU) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 1 | Zain Shaito (LIB) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 1 | Guilherme Toldo (BRA) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Lahoussine Ali (MAR) |
  | Host country option | 2 | James-Andrew Davis (GBR) Husayn Rosowsky (GBR) |
  | | 38 | |
  
  ### Men's Team Sabre
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking | 4 | Russia Italy Belarus |
  | Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 | 1 | Romania |
  | Top team from Asia/Oceania in positions 5–16 | 1 | |
  | Top team from America in positions 5–16 | 1 | United States |
  | Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 | 0 | DNQ |
  | Additional Country | 1 | Korea |
  | Host country option | ** | |
  | | 8 | |
  
  * No African country was in the top 16 of the World Rankings.
  
  ### Men's Individual Sabre
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Members of qualifying teams | 24 | |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Áron Szilágyi (HUN) Boladé Apithy (FRA) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Lam Hin Chung (HKG) Yu Peng Kean (MAS) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Renzo Agresta (BRA) Philippe Beaudry (CAN) |
  | Top individual AOR: Africa | 1 | Hichem Smandi (TUN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 2 | Adam Skrodzki (POL) Dmytro Boyko (UKR) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 1 | Mojtaba Abedini (IRI) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 1 | Hernán Jansen (VEN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Mannad Zeid (EGY) |
  | Host country option | 1 | James Honeybone (GBR) |
  | | 37 | |
  
  ### Women's Team Épée
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking | 4 | Romania Russia Italy |
  | Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 | 1 | Ukraine |
  | Top team from Asia/Oceania in positions 5–16 | 1 | Korea |
  | Top team from America in positions 5–16 | 1 | United States |
  | Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 | 0 | DNQ |
  | Additional Country | 1 | |
  | Host country option | ** | |
  | | 8 | |
  
  * No African country was in the top 16 of the World Rankings.
  
  ### Women's Individual Épée
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Members of qualifying teams | 24 | |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Yeung Chui Ling (HKG) Hsu Jo-ting (TPE) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Tiffany Géroudet (SUI) Magdalena Piekarska (POL) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Sherraine Schalm (CAN) Cáterin Bravo Aránguiz (CHI) |
  | Top individual AOR: Africa | 1 | Sarra Besbes (TUN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 2 | Emese Szász (HUN) Laura Flessel-Colovic (FRA) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 1 | Nozomi Nakano (JPN) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 1 | Maria Martinez (VEN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Mona Hassanein (EGY) |
  | Host country option | 1 | Corinna Lawrence (GBR) |
  | | 37 | |
  
  ### Women's Team Foil
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top four in FIE Official Team Ranking | 4 | Italy Russia Korea Poland |
  | Top team from Europe in positions 5–16 | 1 | France |
  | Top team from Asia/Oceania in positions 5–16 | 1 | |
  | Top team from America in positions 5–16 | 1 | United States |
  | Top team from Africa in positions 5–16 | 1 | Egypt |
  | Host country option | 1 | Great Britain |
  | | 9 | |
  
  ### Women's Individual Foil
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Members of qualifying teams | 24 | |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Aida Mohamed (HUN) Carolin Golubytskyi (GER) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Chen Jinyan (CHN) Lin Po Heung (HKG) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Monica Peterson (CAN) Saskia Loretta Garcia (COL) |
  | Top individual AOR: Africa | 1 | Inès Boubakri (TUN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 2 | Natalia Sheppard (GBR) Olha Leleiko (UKR) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 1 | Mona Shaito (LIB) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 1 | Johana Fuenmayor (VEN) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Anissa Khelfaoui (ALG) |
  | Host country option | 2 | Sophie Troiano (GBR) Anna Bentley (GBR) |
  | | 38 | |
  
  ### Women's Individual Sabre
  
  | | Vacancies | Qualified |
  | - | - | - |
  | Top 12 individual AOR | 12 | Sofiya Velikaya (RUS) Mariel Zagunis (USA) Olha Kharlan (UKR) Yuliya Gavrilova (RUS) Min Zhu (CHN) Kim Ji-yeon (KOR) Chen Xiaodong (CHN) Azza Besbes (TUN) Vassiliki Vougiouka (GRE) Irene Vecchi (ITA) Gioia Marzocca (ITA) Dagmara Wozniak (USA) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Europe | 2 | Aleksandra Socha (POL) Léonore Perrus (FRA) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Asia-Oceania | 2 | Lee Ra-jin (KOR) Seira Nakayama (JPN) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: America | 2 | Sandra Sassine (CAN) María Belén Pérez Maurice (ARG) |
  | Top 2 individual AOR: Africa | 2 | Amira Ben Chaabane (TUN) Salma Mahran (EGY) |
  | Zonal tournament: Europe | 4 | Sabina Mikina (AZE) Margarita Tschomakova (BUL) Alexandra Bujdoso (GER) Bianca Pascu (ROU) |
  | Zonal tournament: Asia-Oceania | 3 | Yuliya Zhivitsa (KAZ) Au Sin Ying (HKG) Diah Permatasari (INA) |
  | Zonal tournament: America | 2 | Alejandra Benítez (VEN) Úrsula González (MEX) |
  | Zonal tournament: Africa | 1 | Lea Moutoussamy (ALG) |
  | Host country option | 2 | Louise Bond-Williams (GBR) Sophie Williams (GBR) |
  | | 32 | |
  
     * Up to 8 fencers spread across any team or individual events, additional to any qualifiers
  