It is similar to the foil, but weighs slightly less. It is about one inch shorter, a maximum of 3 feet, 5.3 inches. The steel blade is rectangular. The sabre is the only fencing weapon with a guard ...

Hungary's Aron Szilagyi retained his Olympic fencing sabre title on Wednesday, beating Daryl Homer of the United States 15-8 in the final. Bronze went to South Korea's Kim Jung-hwan who defeated ...

PARIS, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea took silver in the women's sabre fencing team event at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, ...

The defeat of silver medalists Italy — which won four of the last six golds — ended a 120-year wait, as the Americans have competed in team fencing since 1904. Hungarian star Szilagyi was upset in men ...

Fencing, the sport of sword fighting, is played on a 14-meter-long metal strip known as a piste. A competition between two fencers is called a bout. Fencers earn points in a bout by scoring ...

Fencing matches, or bouts, follow a structured format. In preliminary rounds, fencers compete in pools, with bouts lasting up to 3 minutes — or until one fencer scores 5 points.