title: Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil
text: # Fencing at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil
  
  The women's team foil fencing competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing took place on August 16 at the Olympic Green Convention Centre.
  
  The team foil competition consisted of a three-round single-elimination bracket with a bronze medal match between the two semifinal losers and classification semifinals and finals for 5th to 8th places. Teams consist of three members each. Matches consist of nine bouts, with every fencer on one team facing each fencer on the other team. Scoring carried over between bouts with a total of 45 touches being the team goal. Bouts lasted until one team reached the target multiple of 5 touches. For example, if the first bout ended with a score of 5–3, that score would remain into the next bout and the second bout would last until one team reached 10 touches. Bouts also had a maximum time of three minutes each; if the final bout ended before either team reached 45 touches, the team leading at that point won. A tie at that point would result in an additional one-minute sudden-death time period. This sudden-death period was further modified by the selection of a draw-winner beforehand; if neither fencer scored a touch during the minute, the predetermined draw-winner won the bout.
  
  ## Draw
  
  ### Finals
  
  | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Russia | 45 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | Egypt | 23 | | | | | | |
  | 8 | Egypt | 23 | 1 | Russia | 22 | | | |
  | | | | 4 | Italy | 21 | | | |
  | 5 | China | 24 | 4 | Italy | 21 | | | |
  | 4 | Italy | 37 | | | | | | |
  | 4 | Italy | 37 | | | | 1 | Russia | 28 |
  | | | | | | | 7 | United States | 11 |
  | 3 | Hungary | 35 | | | | | | | 7 | United States | 11 |
  | 6 | Germany | 31 | | | |
  | 6 | Germany | 31 | 3 | Hungary | 33 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
  | | | | 7 | United States | 35 |
  | 7 | United States | 31 | 7 | United States | 35 | 4 | Italy | 32 |
  | 2 | Poland | 30 | | | | 3 | Hungary | 23 |
  
  ### Classification 5- 8
  
  | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-8 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 | Placement 5-6 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 8 | Egypt | 24 | | | |
  | 5 | China | 45 | | | |
  | 5 | China | 45 | 5 | China | 28 |
  | | | | 6 | Germany | 34 |
  | 6 | Germany | 32 | 6 | Germany | 34 |
  | 2 | Poland | 27 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 | Placement 7-8 |
  | | | | 8 | Egypt | 14 |
  | | | | 2 | Poland | 45 |
  
  ## Final classification
  
  | Rank | Team | Athlete |
  | - | - | - |
  | | Russia | Svetlana Boyko Aida Chanaeva Victoria Nikichina Evgenia Lamonova |
  | | United States | Emily Cross Hanna Thompson Erinn Smart |
  | | Italy | Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Margherita Granbassi Ilaria Salvatori |
  | 4 | Hungary | Gabriella Varga Edina Knapek Aida Mohamed Virginie Ujlaki |
  | 5 | Germany | Carolin Golubytskyi Anja Schache Katja Waechter |
  | 6 | China | Huang Jialing Sun Chao Zhang Lei Su Wanwen |
  | 7 | Poland | Malgorzata Wojtkowiak Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Sylwia Gruchała Karolina Chlewinska |
  | 8 | Egypt | Iman Shaban Iman El Gammal Shaimaa El Gammal |
  