Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' sabre

Girls' sabre
at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Girls' sabre; at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Africa Pavilion
Dates	9 October
Competitors	11 from 11 nations
Medalists
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The girls' sabre competition (officially the women's sabre individual) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics took place on 9 October 2018 at the Africa Pavilion in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Eleven fencers from eleven nations took part. Liza Pusztai of Hungary won the gold medal, Mexico's Natalia Botello took silver and Lee Ju-eun of South Korea won bronze.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Competition format

The competition began with a pool round, in which the 11 fencers were divided into two pools and fenced all other opponents within their pool. The results of the pool round were used to establish the seeding for the direct-elimination phase. The knockout round determined the medalists, with a separate bronze-medal bout between the losing semifinalists.^[1]^[2]

Results

Pool round

The 11 competitors were split into two pools. Rankings within each pool were based on number of victories, the ratio of victories to bouts fenced and the hit difference.

Pool 1

Rank	Athlete						V#	B#	Ind.	HG	HR	Diff.
5	Nisanur Erbil (TUR)		2	1	4	4	0	4	0.000	11	20	−9
1	Yoana Ilieva (BUL)	V		2	V	V	3	4	0.750	17	12	+5
4	Alexis Anglade (USA)	V	V		4	1	2	4	0.500	15	13	+2
2	Lin Kesi (CHN)	V	2	V		V	3	4	0.750	17	17	0
3	Liza Pusztai (HUN)	V	3	V	4		2	4	0.500	17	15	+2

Pool 2

Rank	Athlete							V#	B#	Ind.	HG	HR	Diff.
3	Jolien Corteyn (BEL)		3	3	V	V	V	3	5	0.600	21	17	+4
2	Lee Ju-eun (KOR)	V		4	V	V	V	4	5	0.800	24	13	+11
1	Natalia Botello (MEX)	V	V		V	V	V	5	5	1.000	25	11	+14
6	Chaima Benadouda (ALG)	2	2	1		2	2	0	5	0.000	9	25	−16
4	Alina Kliuchnikova (RUS)	2	2	0	V		V	2	5	0.400	14	18	−4
5	Ma Ho Chee (HKG)	3	1	3	V	1		1	5	0.200	13	22	−9

Bracket

In the knockout phase, Liza Pusztai defeated Lee Ju-eun 15–12 in the semifinals, while Natalia Botello beat Jolien Corteyn 15–3. In the final Pusztai overcame Botello 15–9 to win the gold medal, and Lee claimed the bronze medal with a 15–8 victory over Corteyn.^[3]

Round of 16			Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Final

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16			1	Natalia Botello (MEX)	15
9	Ma Ho Chee (HKG)	11	8	Alina Kliuchnikova (RUS)	9
8	Alina Kliuchnikova (RUS)	15				1	Natalia Botello (MEX)	15
5						5	Jolien Corteyn (BEL)	3
12			5	Jolien Corteyn (BEL)	15
13			4	Lin Kesi (CHN)	14
4									1	Natalia Botello (MEX)	9
3									6	Liza Pusztai (HUN)	15
14			3	Yoana Ilieva (BUL)	13
11	Chaima Benadouda (ALG)	7	6	Liza Pusztai (HUN)	15
6	Liza Pusztai (HUN)	15				6	Liza Pusztai (HUN)	15	Third place
7	Alexis Anglade (USA)	15				2	Lee Ju-eun (KOR)	12
10	Nisanur Erbil (TUR)	14	7	Alexis Anglade (USA)	14				5	Jolien Corteyn (BEL)	8
15			2	Lee Ju-eun (KOR)	15				2	Lee Ju-eun (KOR)	15
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Final standings

The medalists: Natalia Botello, Liza Pusztai and Lee Ju-eun

Rank^[2]	Athlete
	Liza Pusztai (HUN)
	Natalia Botello (MEX)
	Lee Ju-eun (KOR)
4	Jolien Corteyn (BEL)
5	Yoana Ilieva (BUL)
6	Lin Kesi (CHN)
7	Alexis Anglade (USA)
8	Alina Kliuchnikova (RUS)
9	Ma Ho Chee (HKG)
10	Nisanur Erbil (TUR)
11	Chaima Benadouda (ALG)

References

1 2 "Fencing – Competition Schedule" (PDF). buenosaires2018.com. 10 October 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
1 2 3 "Fencing – Women's Sabre Individual – Final Standings" (PDF). buenosaires2018.com. 9 October 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
1 2 "Hungary's Pusztai, France's Spichiger Win Gold in Women's Sabre and Men's Foil at Youth Olympic Games". FIE.org. International Fencing Federation. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

External links

Pool round results Archived 2018-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
Ranking after pools Archived 2018-11-16 at the Wayback Machine

[schedule-1] 1 2 "Fencing – Competition Schedule" (PDF). buenosaires2018.com. 10 October 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

[final-2] 1 2 3 "Fencing – Women's Sabre Individual – Final Standings" (PDF). buenosaires2018.com. 9 October 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.

[FIE-3] 1 2 "Hungary's Pusztai, France's Spichiger Win Gold in Women's Sabre and Men's Foil at Youth Olympic Games". FIE.org. International Fencing Federation. 9 October 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

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