Fencing at the 2000 Summer Olympics explained

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre). Women competed in the foil and the épée events.^[1] The events took place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Medal summary

individual épée
team épée	Angelo Mazzoni Paolo Milanoli Maurizio Randazzo Alfredo Rota	Jean-François di Martino Robert Leroux Hugues Obry Éric Srecki	Nelson Loyola Candido Alberto Maya Carlos Pedroso Iván Trevejo
Individual foil
team foil	Jean-Noel Ferrari Brice Guyart Patrice Lhotellier Lionel Plumenail	Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Ye Chong Zhang Jie	Daniele Crosta Gabriele Magni Salvatore Sanzo Matteo Zennaro
Individual sabre
team sabre	Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Frosin Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Mathieu Gourdain Julien Pillet Cédric Séguin Damien Touya	Dennis Bauer Wiradech Kothny Eero Lehmann Alexander Weber

Individual épée
team épée	Karina Aznavourian Oksana Yermakova Tatiana Logunova Maria Mazina	Gianna Hablützel-Bürki Sophie Lamon Diana Romagnoli Tabea Steffen	Li Na Liang Qin Liu Yinqing Yang Shaoqi
Individual foil
team foil	Diana Bianchedi Annamaria Giacometti Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali	Sylwia Gruchała Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Anna Rybicka Barbara Wolnicka-Szewczyk	Sabine Bau Rita König Gesine Schiel Monika Weber

Italy finished top of the fencing medal table at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

A total of 217 fencers (134 men and 83 women) from 40 nations competed at the Sydney Games:

Web site: Fencing: 2000 Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042500/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2000/FEN/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2012-02-25 . Sports Reference.