Italy’s Arianna Errigo showed why she is favourite for gold medal at the Rio Olympics by winning the women’s foil event at the Fencing Grand Prix in Havana, Cuba.
RIO DE JANEIRO (March 9) – Thousands of schoolchildren in Rio de Janeiro will learn how to cut, thrust and parry over the next few weeks with the FIE’s Fencing School program.
The battle to make the 2016 Rio Olympics goes a stage further this weekend as the first of three Grand Prix events gets underway which will determine which foilists make it to Brazil.
France and Russia are the big winners in team fencing qualification for the Rio Olympics, achieving the maximum quota of qualified athletes with berths in men’s and women’s épée, men’s foil and women’s sabre.
Romania’s women’s épée team marked its qualification for the Olympic Games in Rio later this year by winning gold at the World Cup event in Buenos Aires as France and Ukraine edged out Italy.