By beating the Russians in the final, the French foil players bring a fifth gold medal to the French delegation in Japan. The last French foil team title dates back to the Sydney Games in 2000.
The men’s foil team brought France a fifth gold medal on Sunday, overwhelming Russian fencers competing under a neutral flag in the final (45-28).
Led by a disappointing Enzo Lefort individually at the very start of the week, the French, vice-world champions in 2019, thus won the first French foil team title since the Sydney Games twenty-one years ago. In 2016 in Rio, they had to settle for money.
With five medals in the end, French fencing continues to progress, she who had hit rock bottom in London in 2012 with a zero score. In Rio, in 2016, the counter stopped at three medals, only one in gold. In Tokyo, the surprise title of Romain Cannone with the épée Sunday July 25 ideally launched the Olympic course of the fencers, who also won two silver medals with the French women’s foil and saber teams and the bronze for the sabreuse Manon Brunet.
At this stage, the French delegation in Japan has 21 medals, five in gold (the foil players and swordsman Romain Cannone, the mixed team and Clarisse Agbégnénou in judo, Matthieu Androdias and Hugo Boucheron in rowing), ten in silver (the judokas Amandine Buchard, Sarah-Léonie Cysique and Madeleine Malonga, windsurfers Charline Picon and Thomas Goyard, the French women’s foil team and the French women’s saber team, the swimmer Florent Manaudou, the French rugby team to VII and the rowers Laura Tarantola and Claire Bové) and six in bronze (the judokas Teddy Riner, Romane Dicko and Luka Mkheidze, the mixed triathlon team, the taekwondoist Althéa Laurin, the fencer Manon Brunet).
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