The French swordsmen, European champions in 2017 and 2018, missed the team qualification for the Tokyo Olympics this summer (July 23-August 8), at the end of the last selective event in Kazan (Russia), this Tuesday.
For this final qualifying World Cup event for Tokyo, the French lost in the quarter-finals against the Chinese (42-38), 2019 world champions and silver medalists in Rio in 2016. However, to compete in the team event in Tokyo, they had to reach the final.
In Tokyo, the hopes of the Bleues à épée will therefore rest solely on an individual basis on Coraline Vitalis, individual European champion in 2019.
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At the end of this last test, the French fencing team is therefore fixed on its fate: the women's saber and foil teams, and the men's epee and foil, are qualified, which also allows '' line up three fencers and three fencers for the individual events.
The twelve lucky winners (three per weapon), as well as the four substitutes (one for each team) will be appointed by a selection committee of the French Federation in the coming weeks.
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The men's saber and women's épée teams missed the qualification, and it will be Bolade Apithy and Coraline Vitalis who will represent France for these two weapons, in the individual events.
French fencing team in Tokyo
Men's sword:
qualified team, three individual shooters
Ladies
sword
:
Coraline Vitalis in individual
Men's foil
: qualified team, three individual fencers
Ladies foil:
qualified team, three individual fencers
Men's
saber
:
Bolade Apithy in individual
Ladies' saber:
qualified team, three individual shooters
