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- United States defeated Italy 45-39 in the gold medal match of the women’s team foil event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Lee Kiefer (USA) and Lauren Scruggs (USA) were part of the team in Paris. In Tbilisi they are joined by teenagers Jaelyn Liu (USA, 16) and Emily Jing (USA, 18). These four fencers won the team foil event at the Pan American championship title in June 2025. Liu also won the junior individual and cadet individual titles and team title at the junior & cadet world championships in Wuxi in April 2025. USA can win its second world title in the women’s team foil, after it won the final in 2018, also versus Italy. Lee Kiefer competed in that final in 2018.
- Italy has won 18 world titles in the women’s team foil event, the most of all teams (Soviet Union 15, Hungary 13). Italy won the European title in Genoa in June. The Italians also won four women’s team foil World Cups this season, each time against USA in the final. Arianna Errigo (ITA) is the only fencer who was part of these five Italian teams. She was part of Italy’s team that won gold (8) or silver (4) at each of the past 12 world championships (2009-2023). Only Valentina Vezzali (ITA, 14 in women’s team foil) and Giovanna Trillini (ITA, 13 in women’s team foil) won more medals in a specific event at the world championships than Errigo’s 12 medals (G4-S2-B0) in the women’s team foil. The last world championships the Italians did not reach the final of this event was in 2007, when they lost against Japan in the quarter-finals.
- At the past three world championships, France finished fourth (2019), third (2022) and second (2023) in the women’s team foil event. The French won the world title in this event in 1950 and 1951.
- Japan claimed bronze in this event at the last Olympic Games (2024), at the last world championships (2023) and at the last Asian Games (2023). It won gold at the Asian championships in Bali in June 2025. At the past three world championships, Japan finished in fifth (2019), fourth (2022) and third (2023) place. Japan’s other world championships medal in this event was a bronze medal in 2007.
- Canada hopes to win a medal for the first time in the women’s team foil event. The last year there was a ‘new’ NF on the podium of this event was in 2007, when Japan (bronze) reached the podium for the first time.
- China could win a medal in this event for the first time since 1999 (bronze). It also took bronze in 1990. The foil is the only weapon in women’s fencing in which China has not won a world championships medal in this century.
- Poland (G2-S4-B3) has won nine medals in the women’s team foil event, the most for Poland in a women’s fencing event. It claimed its last medal in 2010 (silver). It won gold in 2003 and 2007.
- Republic of Korea won the world title in the women’s team foil in 2005. It also won bronze medals in 2006, 2010 and 2011.
- Spain has yet to win a world championships medal in a women’s foil event. It already won medals in women’s epee and sabre events, and with all three weapons in men’s events.
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- Hungary has won 13 world titles in this event, but it won its last gold medal in 1987. Hungary’s last podium finish was a third place in 1994. It is the longest medal drought for Hungary in a women’s fencing event.
- At the world championships in 2023, Alice Volpi (ITA) won the world title in the women’s individual and team foil events. Only two women achieved this foil double at successive world championships: Valentina Sidorova (URS) in 1977 and 1978, and Arianna Errigo in 2013 and 2014.
- At the women’s team foil World Cup in Tbilisi in 2024, the women’s individual foil event had an all-Italian podium: Volpi (gold), Errigo (silver), Favaretto (bronze) and Anna Cristino (bronze).