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Foil, Individual, Women

Date10 August 2016
StatusOlympic
LocationArena Carioca 3, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Participants35 from 27 countries
FormatSingle-elimination tournament.

Top seeded Arianna Errigo of Italy, the silver (individual) and gold (team) medalist in London, seven times world champion since 2009, and one of the heavy favorites, fell victim to 16th seeded Canadian Eleanor Harvey in the round of the last 16. This result may have been the major surprise in the early rounds of the women’s individual foil tournament but was not the only upset for some other top ten athletes. The two best US fencers, Lee Kiefer and Nzingha Prescod, also went out in the same round and Korea’s Nam Hyeon-Hui lost her first bout (round of 32) against Shiho Nishioka, whose previous best result was finishing 21st at the 2013 World Championships. France lost its two competitors, Ysaora Thibus and Astrid Guyart, each to Russian opponents in the quarter-finals. That left two Russians in the semi-finals, along with Italy’s 2012 gold medalist Elisa Di Francisca and Tunisia’s Ines Boubakri who, despite winning a bronze medal at the 2014 World Championships, was the least expected member of the last four. But Boubakri had already eliminated the surprise winners Harvey and Nishioka on her way to the semi-final.

In the semi-finals, Inna Deriglazova outclassed compatriot Aida Shanayeva 15–3 in an all-Russian bout. Di Francisca had more trouble outscoring Boubakri 12–9. In the final, Di Francisca took an early three-point before Deriglazova enjoyed an impressive 7–0 rally in the second period. With only half a minute to go, the Russian led 12–7 but Di Francisca desperately came back with four consecutive points, but the Russian held on for a narrow 12–11 victory. Deriglazova, eight years younger than Di Francisca destroyed the Italian’s dream of repeating her 2012 triumph. Ines Boubakri, however, took home the first Olympic medal won by an African female fencer by beating Shanayeva 15-11 in the bronze medal bout.

PosSeedCompetitorNOC
1Inna DeriglazovaRUSGold
2Elisa Di FranciscaITASilver
3Inès BoubakriTUNBronze
4Aida ShanayevaRUS
5Ysaora ThibusFRA
6Astrid GuyartFRA
7Eleanor HarveyCAN
8Liu YongshiCHN
9Arianna ErrigoITA
10Lee KieferUSA
11Nzingha PrescodUSA
12Le HuilinCHN
13Jeon Hui-SukKOR
14Aida MohamedHUN
15Hanna ŁyczbińskaPOL
16Shiho NishiokaJPN
17Nam Hyeon-HuiKOR
18Carolin GolubytskyiGER
19Edina KnapekHUN
20Anissa KhelfaouiALG
21Saskia van ErvenCOL
22Isis GiménezVEN
23Youssra ZakaraniMAR
24Olha LeleikoUKR
25Noura MohamedEGY
26Nataly MichelMEX
27İrem KarameteTUR
28Lin Po HeungHKG
29Mona ShaitoLBN
30Taís RochelBRA
31Bia BulcãoBRA
32Đỗ Thị AnhVIE
33Aikaterini KontochristopoulouGRE
34Mălina CălugăreanuROU
35Lubna Al-OmairKSA

Round One

Date10 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to round two.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout #1Arianna ErrigoITAbye
Bout #210 Aug 8:30Blue PisteĐỗ Thị AnhVIE15 – 13Aikaterini KontochristopoulouGRE
Bout #31Eleanor HarveyCANbye
Bout #4Anissa KhelfaouiALGbye
Bout #5Shiho NishiokaJPNbye
Bout #6Nam Hyeon-HuiKORbye
Bout #7Inès BoubakriTUNbye
Bout #8Noura MohamedEGYbye
Bout #9Elisa Di FranciscaITAbye
Bout #10Lin Po HeungHKGbye
Bout #11Hanna ŁyczbińskaPOLbye
Bout #12Carolin GolubytskyiGERbye
Bout #13Liu YongshiCHNbye
Bout #14Edina KnapekHUNbye
Bout #15Lee KieferUSAbye
Bout #16Mona ShaitoLBNbye
Bout #17Aida ShanayevaRUSbye
Bout #1810 Aug 8:30Green PisteTaís RochelBRA15 – 0Lubna Al-OmairKSA
Bout #19Jeon Hui-SukKORbye
Bout #20Isis GiménezVENbye
Bout #21Le HuilinCHNbye
Bout #22Youssra ZakaraniMARbye
Bout #23Ysaora ThibusFRAbye
Bout #24İrem KarameteTURbye
Bout #25Nzingha PrescodUSAbye
Bout #26Nataly MichelMEXbye
Bout #27Astrid GuyartFRAbye
Bout #28Olha LeleikoUKRbye
Bout #29Aida MohamedHUNbye
Bout #30Saskia van ErvenCOLbye
Bout #3110 Aug 8:30Yellow PisteBia BulcãoBRA15 – 12Mălina CălugăreanuROU
Bout #32Inna DeriglazovaRUSbye

Round Two

Date10 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to round three.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout #110 Aug 9:10Blue PisteArianna ErrigoITA15 – 9Đỗ Thị AnhVIE
Bout #210 Aug 9:35Blue PisteEleanor HarveyCAN15 – 6Anissa KhelfaouiALG
Bout #310 Aug 10:00Blue PisteShiho NishiokaJPN15 – 12Nam Hyeon-HuiKOR
Bout #410 Aug 10:25Blue PisteInès BoubakriTUN15 – 4Noura MohamedEGY
Bout #510 Aug 9:10Red PisteElisa Di FranciscaITA15 – 8Lin Po HeungHKG
Bout #610 Aug 9:35Red PisteHanna ŁyczbińskaPOL14 – 9Carolin GolubytskyiGER
Bout #710 Aug 10:00Red PisteLiu YongshiCHN15 – 9Edina KnapekHUN
Bout #810 Aug 10:25Red PisteLee KieferUSA15 – 3Mona ShaitoLBN
Bout #910 Aug 9:10Green PisteAida ShanayevaRUS15 – 13Taís RochelBRA
Bout #1010 Aug 9:35Green PisteJeon Hui-SukKOR10 – 8Isis GiménezVEN
Bout #1110 Aug 10:00Green PisteLe HuilinCHN15 – 4Youssra ZakaraniMAR
Bout #1210 Aug 10:25Green PisteYsaora ThibusFRA15 – 6İrem KarameteTUR
Bout #1310 Aug 9:10Yellow PisteNzingha PrescodUSA15 – 9Nataly MichelMEX
Bout #1410 Aug 9:35Yellow PisteAstrid GuyartFRA15 – 9Olha LeleikoUKR
Bout #1510 Aug 10:00Yellow PisteAida MohamedHUN15 – 12Saskia van ErvenCOL
Bout #1610 Aug 10:25Yellow PisteInna DeriglazovaRUS15 – 6Bia BulcãoBRA

Round Three

Date10 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to quarter-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout #110 Aug 11:00Blue PisteEleanor HarveyCAN15 – 11Arianna ErrigoITA
Bout #210 Aug 11:25Blue PisteInès BoubakriTUN15 – 10Shiho NishiokaJPN
Bout #310 Aug 11:00Red PisteElisa Di FranciscaITA15 – 6Hanna ŁyczbińskaPOL
Bout #410 Aug 11:25Red PisteLiu YongshiCHN15 – 9Lee KieferUSA
Bout #510 Aug 11:00Green PisteAida ShanayevaRUS15 – 11Jeon Hui-SukKOR
Bout #610 Aug 11:25Green PisteYsaora ThibusFRA15 – 13Le HuilinCHN
Bout #710 Aug 11:00Yellow PisteAstrid GuyartFRA14 – 11Nzingha PrescodUSA
Bout #810 Aug 11:25Yellow PisteInna DeriglazovaRUS15 – 6Aida MohamedHUN

Quarter-Finals

Date10 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to semi-finals.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout #110 Aug 12:00Blue PisteInès BoubakriTUN15 – 13Eleanor HarveyCAN
Bout #210 Aug 12:00Red PisteElisa Di FranciscaITA15 – 10Liu YongshiCHN
Bout #310 Aug 12:00Green PisteAida ShanayevaRUS15 – 13Ysaora ThibusFRA
Bout #410 Aug 12:00Yellow PisteInna DeriglazovaRUS15 – 6Astrid GuyartFRA

Semi-Finals

Date10 August 2016
FormatWinner of each match advanced to final pool.
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout #110 Aug 17:30Finals PisteElisa Di FranciscaITA12 – 9Inès BoubakriTUN
Bout #210 Aug 18:00Finals PisteInna DeriglazovaRUS15 – 3Aida ShanayevaRUS

Final Round

Date10 August 2016
MatchDate/TimeLocationCompetitor (Seed)NOCResultCompetitor (Seed)NOC
Bout 1/210 Aug 20:15Finals PisteInna DeriglazovaRUS12 – 11Elisa Di FranciscaITA
Bout 3/410 Aug 19:20Finals PisteInès BoubakriTUN15 – 11Aida ShanayevaRUS