|
| Event type

Foil, Team, Women

Date23 September 2000 — 9:30
StatusOlympic
LocationSydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales / Sydney Exhibition Centre, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, New South Wales
Participants29 from 9 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

Valentina Vezzali and Giovanna Trillini, gold and bronze medal winners in the individual competition, were joined by Diana Bianchedi, who had enjoyed immense success in team competition throughout the 90s, to form an Italian team that carried swagger of champions. Since the Italians won the Olympic title in Atlanta they had suffered but a single defeat at major championships. The Sydney Olympics gave them the opportunity to avenge this defeat since their opponents in the final were the Polish team who had sprung a surprise by defeating the Italians at the 1999 World Championships. This time Italy could not be denied and spearheaded by the newly crowned individual champion Vezzali, they ran out winners on a 45-36 score line. Bronze medallists Germany narrowly stopped the USA from winning a first ever medal in women’s fencing.

PosCompetitorsNOC
1ItalyITAGold
Diana BianchediGiovanna TrilliniValentina Vezzali
2PolandPOLSilver
Sylwia GruchałaMagdalena MroczkiewiczAnna RybickaBarbara Wolnicka-Szewczyk
3GermanyGERBronze
Sabine BauRita KönigMonika Weber
4United StatesUSA
Ann MarshIris ZimmermannFelicia Zimmermann
5Russian FederationRUS
Svetlana BoykoYekaterina YushevaOlga Sharkova-Sidorova
6HungaryHUN
Edina KnapekGabriella LantosAida Mohamed
7People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Xiao AihuaMeng JieYuan LiZhang Lei
8UkraineUKR
Liudmyla VasylievaOlena KoltsovaOlha Leleiko
9CanadaCAN
Sherraine SchalmJulie MahoneyJujie Luan

Round One

Date23 September 2000
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #123 SepItalyITAbye
Match #223 SepPiste BlueUkraineUKR45 – 35CanadaCAN
Match #323 SepUnited StatesUSAbye
Match #423 SepHungaryHUNbye
Match #523 SepPeople's Republic of ChinaCHNbye
Match #623 SepPolandPOLbye
Match #723 SepRussian FederationRUSbye
Match #823 SepGermanyGERbye

Quarter-Finals

Date23 September 2000
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #123 SepPiste BlueItalyITA45 – 39UkraineUKR
Match #223 SepPiste GreenUnited StatesUSA45 – 41HungaryHUN
Match #323 SepPiste RedPolandPOL45 – 43People's Republic of ChinaCHN
Match #423 SepPiste YellowGermanyGER38 – 35Russian FederationRUS

Semi-Finals

Date23 September 2000
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #123 SepPiste BlueItalyITA45 – 38United StatesUSA
Match #223 SepPiste YellowPolandPOL45 – 34GermanyGER

Classification Round 5-8

Date23 September 2000
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match #123 SepPiste BlueHungaryHUN45 – 39UkraineUKR
Match #223 SepPiste YellowRussian FederationRUS45 – 33People's Republic of ChinaCHN

Final Round

Date23 September 2000
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitorsNOCResultCompetitorsNOC
Match 1/223 SepPiste FinalItalyITA45 – 36PolandPOL
Match 3/423 SepPiste FinalGermanyGER45 – 42United StatesUSA
Match 5/623 SepPiste GreenRussian FederationRUS45 – 38HungaryHUN
Match 7/823 SepPiste RedPeople's Republic of ChinaCHN45 – 40UkraineUKR