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  1. Japan win men's foil team fencing goldpublished at 21:25 4 August

    Japan fencing team celebrateImage source, Getty Images

    Japan won gold in the men's foil team final on Sunday with a dominant win over Italy.

    The 45-36 victory secured Japan's fifth fencing medal in Paris.

    France won a historic bronze by beating the United States 45-32.

    That medal was the hosts' 44th, ensuring the nation's best total at an Olympics since 1900.

  2. Hungary edge out Japan for team epee goldpublished at 23:50 2 August

    Hungary beat Japan in overtime to win men's team epee gold at the Paris Olympics.

    Gergely Siklosi got the decisive touch on Koki Kano as the Hungarians edged a tight contest 26-25 at the Grand Palais.

    Victory brought Hungary their second gold of the Games after Hubert Kos' success in the swimming pool on Thursday.

    Czechia beat France 43-41 to take bronze.

  3. South Korea win third consecutive men's sabre team goldpublished at 21:36 31 July

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    South Korea won their third consecutive men's Olympic sabre team gold by beating Hungary 45-41 at the Grand Palais.

    The four-time world champions sought revenge on Hungary, who got the better of them at the 2023 World Championships to claim a title long held by South Korea.

    France claimed bronze by beating Iran 45-25.

  4. Italy beat France to win women's epee team goldpublished at 21:03 30 July

    Italy celebrate winning goldImage source, Getty Images

    Italy beat France in a sudden-death contest to win Olympic women's epee team gold at the Grand Palais.

    The world number ones claimed a 30-29 victory over the host nation, despite the French taking an early 19-15 lead.

    Poland took the bronze medal by beating China 32-31.

  5. Cheung retains title to win Hong Kong's fourth Olympic goldpublished at 21:44 29 July

    Cheung Ka LongImage source, Getty Images

    Hong Kong's Cheung Ka Long beat Italy's Filippo Macchi 15-14 to retain his Olympic individual foil title.

    Cheung's success means he has now won two of Hong Kong's four gold medals in the history of the Games.

    Former world number one Nick Itkin of the United States of America beat Japan's Kazuki IImura to take bronze.

    In the women's events, France's Manon Apithy-Brunet beat her compatriot Sara Balzer 15-12 to win individual sabre gold.

    Apithy-Brunet became the first Frenchwoman to win an Olympic medal in that event when she clinched bronze at Tokyo 2020, and now has three Olympic medals to her name.

    Ukraine's four-time world champion Olga Kharlan took bronze.

  6. Ukraine's Kharlan wins sabre bronzepublished at 20:39 29 July

    Olga KharlanImage source, Getty Images

    Ukraine's four-time world champion Olga Kharlan has beaten South Korea's Sebin Choi to win bronze in the women's sabre individual.

    It is her fifth Olympic medal, following team gold and silver in 2008 and 2012 respectively, plus individual bronzes in 2012 and 2016.

    But Kharlan very nearly didn't compete in Paris.

    She was front page news after she was disqualified from the World Championships in 2023 for offering to tap blades instead of shaking hands with Russia’s Anna Smirnova. After a backlash, the International Fencing Federation reinstated her which allowed her to take part in the team competition.

    IOC president Thomas Bach (a former fencer), wrote her a letter saying he would "allocate an additional quota place" to her if she could not qualify because of her "unique situation".