The Ukrainian team, consisting of Olha Kharlan, Olena Kravatska, Alina Komashchuk and Yuliia Bakastova, beat their opponents with a score of 45-31. Initially, the Ukrainians took the lead with a score ...

Brandon Lim, left, and Gavin Berkowitz, both of Syosset, compete in the gold medal match of the Nassau boys sabre individual finals at Oyster Bay High School on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. Credit: Anna ...

Ukrainian fencer Olha Kharlan has won her final match in the individual sabre fencing tournament at the 2024 Olympic Games. With the score at 5-11 at one point, Kharlan nearly lost the match but ...

PARIS — All three U.S. women's saber fencers lost their opening bouts at the Paris Olympics on Monday under the cloud of an investigation that examined possible match-fixing in qualifying for the ...

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 touches on ...

After several upsets in the Olympic men’s individual sabre events, countries are aiming for redemption in the team event on July 31. Here’s what to watch for.

Fencing has been part of every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. Fencing’s origins can be found in swordplay, which has been practiced ...