The sabre (US English: saber, both pronounced /ˈseɪbər/) is one of the three disciplines of modern fencing. The sabre weapon is for thrusting and cutting...
23 KB (3,309 words) - 20:50, 29 July 2024
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber); each...
39 KB (5,290 words) - 23:46, 15 October 2024
The military sabre was used as a duelling weapon in academic fencing in the 19th century, giving rise to a discipline of modern sabre fencing (introduced...
24 KB (2,903 words) - 20:21, 13 November 2024
individual and team events held in all three weapons (foil, épée, and sabre). 212 fencing quota places, with an equal distribution between men and women, were...
27 KB (1,785 words) - 16:12, 15 September 2024
individual and team events, further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre. Fencing is one of the few sports that have been featured in every...
8 KB (230 words) - 21:24, 4 September 2022
favored. Sabre (fencing) Épée Colichemarde Rapier "Material Rules". FIE Rules. Fédération Internationale d'Escrime. December 2022. pp. 12–16. "Fencing competition...
21 KB (2,343 words) - 19:51, 11 October 2024
(fencing), a sporting sword Sabre (tank), a modern British armoured reconnaissance vehicle Chinese sabre or dao, a variety of Chinese sword HMS Sabre,...
3 KB (391 words) - 01:41, 14 October 2024
Rebecca Westbrook, Peter Williams, James Worth, George Zagunis, Mariel Sabre Fencing List of American epee fencers List of American foil fencers USFA USFA...
1 KB (87 words) - 06:34, 19 August 2024
Peter Westbrook (category American male sabre fencers)
Peter Jonathan Westbrook (born April 16, 1952) is an American former sabre fencing national and Pan American Games champion, Olympic bronze medalist, and...
13 KB (1,106 words) - 12:29, 20 November 2024
15. Epee Fencing: A Complete System - Imre Vass (SKA Swordplay Books) Know the Game: Fencing Fencing: Techniques of Foil, Épée and Sabre - Brian Pitman...
11 KB (833 words) - 14:39, 25 August 2024
to govern fencing as a martial art and a gentlemanly pursuit. The modern weapons for sport fencing are the foil, épée, and sabre. A fencing bout takes...
34 KB (5,301 words) - 21:42, 11 October 2024
Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events. The FIE first organized an international fencing championship in Paris, France in 1921. The competition...
63 KB (961 words) - 14:42, 23 September 2024
Italo Santelli (category Olympic medalists in fencing)
was an Italian fencer who is considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing". Italo Santelli was born in Carrodano (La Spezia), Italy in 1866. He...
7 KB (610 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2023
See #Yellow card. Backsword A type of historical heavy sabre, not used in contemporary fencing, generally single-edged with a ‘false edge’ down the top...
56 KB (8,178 words) - 07:38, 24 November 2024
Historical European martial arts (redirect from Historical fencing)
modern Italian duelling sabre. Hutton's pioneering advocacy and practice of historical fencing included reconstructions of the fencing systems of several historical...
49 KB (6,016 words) - 22:59, 22 October 2024
Great Britain Connie Adam, fencer, took up fencing aged 60 and went on to win 140 medals. Bob Anderson, sabre fencer, represented Great Britain at the Olympics...
29 KB (3,742 words) - 21:34, 14 September 2024
Épée (redirect from Épée (Fencing))
feature of épée fencing. The entire body is a valid target area. While the modern sport of fencing has three weapons — foil, épée, and sabre, each a separate...
15 KB (1,961 words) - 06:57, 24 November 2024
Wheelchair fencing at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France were held between 3 and 7 September. There was a total of sixteen events: eight events...
10 KB (129 words) - 19:00, 16 November 2024
modern fencing Feder Rapier Sabre Spada da lato Modern fencing (sport equipment) Épée Foil (fencing) Sabre (fencing) U.S. regulation swords (sabres, and...
9 KB (825 words) - 13:40, 7 August 2024
the rules of right of way to determine which fencer gets the point. Sabre fencing – uses a saber, a light cutting and thrusting weapon, targeting the...
73 KB (8,124 words) - 17:15, 26 October 2024
period. Classical fencing weapons included the standard foil, épée (using pointes d'arret), and sabre (including both blunted dueling sabres and, beginning...
11 KB (1,571 words) - 06:15, 21 March 2024
Kim Jun-ho (fencer) (category South Korean male sabre fencers)
which won gold in the men's team sabre at the 2016 Asian Fencing Championships. However, there was no men's team sabre at the 2016 Summer Olympics due...
24 KB (1,520 words) - 11:32, 17 November 2024
single-elimination bracket, with a bronze medal match. Fencing was done to 15 touches. Standard sabre rules regarding target area, striking, and priority...
8 KB (148 words) - 01:58, 4 August 2024
Priority or right of way is the decision criterion used in foil and sabre fencing to determine which fencer receives the touch, or point, when both fencers...
9 KB (1,286 words) - 22:07, 2 August 2024
Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are...
46 KB (178 words) - 18:51, 13 August 2024
Csaba Elthes (category Hungarian male sabre fencers)
of US sabre fencing for most of their careers; Elthes was a US Olympic coach from 1964 to 1984, and as late as 1992, the entire US Olympic sabre team was...
6 KB (916 words) - 22:43, 24 September 2024
Vladimir Nazlymov (category Soviet male sabre fencers)
the United States Fencing Association.[citation needed] In 2019, Nazlymov became the sabre coach of the Uzbekistan national fencing team. In the end of...
24 KB (2,153 words) - 05:01, 29 October 2024
Jean-François Lamour (category French male sabre fencers)
silver medals, and one bronze medal in sabre Olympic events between 1984 and 1988. After retiring from fencing, Lamour entered politics and served as...
6 KB (395 words) - 10:51, 24 November 2024
saber fencing for the first half of the twentieth century and trained the Hungarian master József Keresztessy also called “father of Hungarian sabre fencing...
3 KB (333 words) - 13:32, 27 February 2024
for sabre. Frenchman René Lacroix also campaigned for the creation of an international fencing federation.[citation needed] The International Fencing Federation...
35 KB (2,687 words) - 04:47, 2 October 2024