Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's foil


The women's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 2 to 3 August 1984. 42 fencers from 18 nations competed.

Competition format

The 1984 tournament used a three-phase format similar to that of 1976 and 1980, though the final phase was different.
The first phase was a multi-round round-robin pool play format; each fencer in a pool faced each other fencer in that pool once. There were three pool rounds:
The second phase was a truncated double-elimination tournament. Four fencers advanced to the final round through the winners brackets and four more advanced via the repechage.
The final phase was a single elimination tournament with a bronze medal match.
Bouts in the round-robin pools were to 5 touches; bouts in the double-elimination and final rounds were to 8 touches.

Results

Round 1

Round 1 Pool A

Round 1 Pool B

Round 1 Pool C

A barrage was necessary because Bradford and Sinigaglia finished with identical win-loss records, touches against, and touches for. Sinigaglia had won the round-robin bout between the two, but Bradford prevailed 5–0 in the barrage to advance to the second round.
; Barrage

Round 1 Pool D

Round 1 Pool E

Round 1 Pool F

Round 2

Round 2 Pool A

Round 2 Pool B

Round 2 Pool C

Round 2 Pool D

Round 2 Pool E

Round 2 Pool F

Round 3

Round 3 Pool A

Round 3 Pool B

Round 3 Pool C

Round 3 Pool D

Double elimination rounds

Winners brackets

Winners group 1
Winners group 2
Winners group 3
Winners group 4

Losers brackets

Losers group 1
Losers group 2
Losers group 3
Losers group 4

Final round

Final classification

FencerCountry
Jujie Luan
Cornelia Hanisch
Dorina Vaccaroni
Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan
Véronique Brouquier
Laurence Modaine-Cessac
Sabine Bischoff
Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin
Aurora Dan
Linda Ann Martin
Zhu Qingyuan
Kerstin Palm
Li Huahua
Carola Cicconetti
Margherita Zalaffi
Liz Thurley
Nili Drori
Marcela Moldovan-Zsak
Christiane Weber
Debra Waples
O Seung-Sun
Fiona McIntosh
Vincent Bradford
Madeleine Philion
Jacynthe Poirier
Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel
Azusa Oikawa
Jana Angelakis
Helen Smith
Mieko Miyahara
Lourdes Lozano
Andrea Chaplin
María Alicia Sinigaglia
Gina Faustin
Silvana Giancola
Caroline Mitchell
Choi Bok-Ran
Miyuki Maekawa
Sheila Viard
Alayna Snell
Sandra Giancola
Barbra Higgins