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Foil, Team, Women

Date25 July 1996
StatusOlympic
LocationGeorgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants33 from 11 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

Italy were hot favourites to win as they could potentially field three of the top four fencers in the world. The Italians suffered a setback when Diana Bianchedi was forced to pull out after being injured in the individual event. Her replacement, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, struggled in the semi-final against Hungary but the rest of the team were able to scrape out a 45-42 victory. Italy’s opponents in the final were Romania who fielded individual gold medallist Laura Badea but lacked the depth of talent that the Italians had to offer. The Italian trio completed an easy victory to claim the Olympic title.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1ItalyITAGold
Francesca Bortolozzi-BorellaGiovanna TrilliniValentina Vezzali
2RomaniaROUSilver
Laura BadeaReka SzaboRoxana Scarlat
3GermanyGERBronze
Anja Fichtel-MauritzMonika Weber-KosztoSabine Bau
4HungaryHUN
Aida MohamedGabriella LantosZsuzsa Jánosi-Németh
5FranceFRA
Adeline WuillèmeClothilde MagnanLaurence Modaine-Cessac
6Russian FederationRUS
Olga SharkovaOlga VelichkoSvetlana Boyko
7People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Liang JunWang HuifengXiao Aihua
8PolandPOL
Anna RybickaBarbara Wolnicka-SzewczykKatarzyna Felusiak
9IsraelISR
Ayelet OhayonLilach PariskyLydia Czuckermann-Hatuel
10United StatesUSA
Ann MarshFelicia ZimmermannSuzie Paxton
11ArgentinaARG
Alejandra CarboneYanina IannuzziDolores Pampin

Round One

Date25 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulItalyITAbye
Match #225 JulPiste 1People's Republic of ChinaCHN45 – 29IsraelISR
Match #325 JulFranceFRAbye
Match #425 JulHungaryHUNbye
Match #525 JulRomaniaROUbye
Match #625 JulPiste 3Russian FederationRUS45 – 20ArgentinaARG
Match #725 JulPiste 5PolandPOL45 – 44United StatesUSA
Match #825 JulGermanyGERbye

Quarter-Finals

Date25 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 1ItalyITA45 – 24People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Match #225 JulPiste 4HungaryHUN45 – 26FranceFRA
Match #325 JulPiste 6RomaniaROU45 – 41Russian FederationRUS
Match #425 JulPiste 5GermanyGER45 – 35PolandPOL

Semi-Finals

Date25 July 1996
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 4ItalyITA45 – 42HungaryHUN
Match #225 JulPiste 5RomaniaROU45 – 33GermanyGER

Classification Round 9-12

Date25 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 3United StatesUSA45 – 12ArgentinaARG

Classification Round 5-8

Date25 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #125 JulPiste 6FranceFRA45 – 44People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Match #225 JulPiste 1Russian FederationRUS45 – 44PolandPOL

Final Round

Date25 July 1996
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/225 JulPiste 1ItalyITA45 – 33RomaniaROU
Match 3/425 JulPiste 1GermanyGER45 – 42HungaryHUN
Match 5/625 JulPiste 4FranceFRA45 – 44Russian FederationRUS
Match 7/825 JulPiste 6People's Republic of ChinaCHN45 – 32PolandPOL
Match 9/1025 JulPiste 3IsraelISR45 – 39United StatesUSA