Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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Fencing at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue	ExCeL Exhibition Centre
Dates	28 July – 5 August 2012
Competitors	204 from 44 nations
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Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Épée	men	women
Team épée		women
Foil	men	women
Team foil	men	women
Sabre	men	women
Team sabre	men
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The fencing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 5 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Ten events (six individual, four team) were contested. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) had pushed for the inclusion of two more team events, but the International Olympic Committee voted to keep the current format of ten events.

The women's individual épée semi final became a notable controversy at the 2012 Olympics when a time-keeping error by a games volunteer helped German Britta Heidemann beat South Korea's Shin A-lam. Despite there being two hundredths of a second remaining in the match, the timer could only be reset to a whole second after the mistake. The extra time was enough for the German to score a winning attack and proceed to the final.^[1]