women Command Saber women Qualification 4 1 2 7 2 2 1 1 4 3 1 3 0 4 4 1 1 1 3 5 1 0 1 2 6 1 0 0 1 7 0 2 2 4 8 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 2 10 0 0 1 1 Total 10 10 10 30

Medalists

Men

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Command Foil
Saber

Women

Discipline	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sword
Command sword
Rapier
Saber
Command Saber	Russia Sophia the Great Julia Gavrilova Ekaterina Dyachenko Yana Yegoryan 3 (in the lower left corner) Pierre silently, intently peered into the aged face of (Prince) Andrei. “No, I’m asking,” said Pierre, “but Prince Andrei interrupted him: - What can I say about me... tell me, tell me about your journey, about everything that you did there on your estates? Pierre began to talk about what he had done on his estates, trying as much as possible to hide his participation in the improvements made by him. Prince Andrei several times prompted Pierre in advance what he was telling, as if everything that Pierre had done had been a long time ago. famous history, and listened not only not with interest, but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling. Pierre became embarrassed and even hard in the company of his friend. He fell silent. - And here's what, my soul, - said Prince Andrei, who was obviously also hard and shy with the guest, - I'm here in bivouacs, and I came only to look. Today I'm going back to my sister. I will introduce you to them. Yes, you seem to know each other,” he said, obviously entertaining the guest with whom he now felt nothing in common. - We'll leave after lunch. And now you want to see my estate? - They went out and walked until dinner, talking about political news and mutual acquaintances, like people who are not close to each other. With some animation and interest, Prince Andrei spoke only about the new estate and building he was arranging, but even here, in the middle of the conversation, on the stage, when Prince Andrei was describing to Pierre the future location of the house, he suddenly stopped. - However, there is nothing interesting here, let's go to dinner and go. - At dinner, the conversation turned to the marriage of Pierre. “I was very surprised when I heard about this,” said Prince Andrei. Pierre blushed just as he always blushed at this, and hastily said: "I'll tell you someday how it all happened." But you know that it's all over and for good. - Forever? - said Prince Andrew. “Nothing happens forever. But do you know how it all ended? Have you heard of the duel? Yes, you've been through that too. “One thing I thank God for is that I didn’t kill this man,” said Pierre. - From what? - said Prince Andrew. “Killing an evil dog is even very good. “No, it’s not good to kill a person, it’s unfair… - Why is it unfair? repeated Prince Andrei; what is fair and unfair is not given to people to judge. People have always been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider just and unjust. “It’s unfair that there is evil for another person,” said Pierre, feeling with pleasure that for the first time since his arrival, Prince Andrei revived and began to speak and wanted to express everything that made him what he was now. – And who told you what evil is for another person? - he asked. – Evil? Evil? - said Pierre, - we all know what evil is for ourselves. “Yes, we know, but I cannot do the evil that I know for myself to another person,” Prince Andrei said more and more animatedly, apparently wanting to express his new view of things to Pierre. He spoke French. Je ne connais l dans la vie que deux maux bien reels: c "est le remord et la maladie. II n" est de bien que l "absence de ces maux. [I know only two real misfortunes in life: this is remorse and disease. And the only good is the absence of these evils.] To live for oneself, avoiding only these two evils: that is all my wisdom now. What about love for one's neighbor, and self-sacrifice? Pierre spoke up. No, I can't agree with you! To live only in such a way as not to do evil, so as not to repent? this is not enough. I lived like this, I lived for myself and ruined my life. And only now, when I live, at least I try (Pierre corrected himself out of modesty) to live for others, only now I understand all the happiness of life. No, I do not agree with you, and you do not think what you say. Prince Andrei silently looked at Pierre and smiled mockingly. - Here you will see your sister, Princess Marya. You will get along with her,” he said. “Perhaps you are right for yourself,” he continued, after a pause; - but everyone lives in his own way: you lived for yourself and you say that you almost ruined your life by doing this, and you only knew happiness when you began to live for others. And I experienced the opposite. I lived for fame. (After all, what is fame? The same love for others, the desire to do something for them, the desire for their praise.) So I lived for others, and not almost, but completely ruined my life. And since then I have become calmer, as I live for myself alone. - But how to live for oneself? Pierre asked excitedly. “And the son, and the sister, and the father?” “Yes, it’s still the same me, it’s not others,” said Prince Andrei, and others, neighbors, le prochain, as you and Princess Mary call it, this is the main source of delusion and evil. Le prochain [Middle] are those, your Kiev men, to whom you want to do good. And he looked at Pierre with a mockingly defiant look. He apparently called Pierre. “You are joking,” Pierre said more and more animatedly. What error and evil can there be in the fact that I wanted (I did very little and badly), but I wanted to do good, and even did something? What evil can it be that unfortunate people, our peasants, people just like us, growing up and dying without another concept of God and truth, like a ritual and meaningless prayer, will learn from the comforting beliefs of a future life, retribution, rewards, consolation? What is the evil and delusion in the fact that people die from illness, without help, when it is so easy to help them financially, and I will give them a doctor, and a hospital, and a shelter for an old man? And isn’t it a tangible, undoubted blessing that a peasant, a woman with a child do not have day and night of peace, and I will give them rest and leisure? ... - said Pierre, hurrying and lisping. “And I did it, albeit badly, at least a little, but I did something for this, and you not only won’t disbelieve me that what I did is good, but you won’t disbelieve me that you yourself don’t think so. And most importantly, - continued Pierre, - this is what I know and know for sure, that the pleasure of doing this good is the only true happiness of life. - Yes, if you put the question like that, then this is another matter, said Prince Andrei. - I build a house, plant a garden, and you are hospitals. Both can serve as a pastime. And what is fair, what is good - leave it to the one who knows everything, and not to us, to judge. Well, you want to argue,” he added, “come on. They left the table and sat down on the porch that served as a balcony. “Well, let’s argue,” said Prince Andrei. “You are talking about schools,” he continued, bending his finger, “teachings and so on, that is, you want to take him out,” he said, pointing to the peasant who took off his hat and passed them, “out of his animal state and give him moral needs , but it seems to me that the only possible happiness is the happiness of an animal, and you want to deprive him of it. I envy him, and you want to make him me, but without giving him my means. You say something else: make his work easier. And in my opinion, physical labor for him is the same necessity, the same condition for his existence, as mental labor is for me and for you. You can't stop thinking. I go to bed at 3 o'clock, thoughts come to me, and I cannot fall asleep, I toss and turn, I do not sleep until the morning because I think and cannot help but think, how he cannot but plow, do not mow; otherwise he will go to a tavern, or he will become ill. Just as I will not endure his terrible physical labor, and die in a week, so he will not endure my physical idleness, he will grow fat and die. Third, what else did you say? - Prince Andrei bent the third finger.

Fencing - olympic sport, in which rivals fight with the help of special sports melee weapons, which are completely safe. Ordinary swordsmanship is not at all safe, because it is a martial discipline that was actively used during military operations in the past. But as happened with many martial arts, this discipline today has also become exclusively sporting in nature.

Fencing game participants

212 men and women will come to the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, there will be 106 people each. According to the results of the competition, 10 sets of medals will be awarded, 5 for women and 5 for men. One country can nominate no more than 16 fencers, and no more than 8 of them are women and men.

The International Fencing Federation uses the principle of discipline rotation for a competition such as the Olympics. The 2016 Summer Olympics will not offer the same fencing disciplines as they did at the London Games 4 years ago. Then the command saber was for men, and the command rapier for women. In Rio, men will have a team sword and women will have a team saber.

Disciplines common to men and women:

• Sword;
• Command sword;
• Rapier;
• Saber.

Participants of the Summer Olympic Games must prove themselves in order to qualify for the Olympics. For this, the Olympic qualification of the competition is provided, for each continent it has its own. All competitions are judged as qualifying tournament. The selection is also influenced by the world ranking of athletes.

Fencing competition calendar

Competitions for those who are engaged in fencing will be held from 6 to 14 August. The finals of competitions in a certain discipline will be held daily. Schedule:

• August 6: Women's individual épée;
• 7 August: Men's individual foil championship;
• August 8: Women's individual saber championship;
• August 9: individual epee, men;
• August 10: women's individual foil championship, men's individual saber championship;
• August 11: Women's Team Epee Championship;
• August 12: men's foil team championship;
• August 13: Women's team saber championship;
• August 14: men's team epee championship.

In each discipline, to win, you need to inflict a certain number of blows or injections on the opponent first. A certain period of time is given for the competition, after which the fight stops.

Athletes compete in protective clothing: they have jackets made of metallic fabric and hard mesh masks. The hand that does not hold a weapon must be wearing a glove. The weapon is connected to the electrical panel. If a fencer strikes an opponent, then this is fixed on the shield, a light comes on. If the blow was not powerful enough, for example, when the athlete only slid over the opponent, the touch is not recorded by the electric system.

A rapier and a sword involve inflicting injections, but with a saber it is already possible to inflict a chopping blow. Each type of weapon has a guard that protects the working hand from damage. For disciplines, the parts of the body allowed for strikes differ.

For the duel, a fencing track is used. Its length is 14 meters.

Enchantingly ended Monday for Russian sports fans. Just when the hands of the clock in Moscow passed after midnight, one of the most exciting duels took place in Rio de Janeiro recent years- in the final of the saber fencing tournament, two Russians met each other, Sophia the Great and Yana Egoryan.

And if not for the Imperial March, which personifies all the evil in the film about Star Wars, which the organizers, either intentionally or thoughtlessly, put before the Russian final, nothing would have overshadowed this wonderful Russian evening. But we knew that this evil march only precedes the Russian anthem, which would inevitably sound at the end of the duel, no matter who won.

Sophia is not great yet

The favorite of this fight, of course, was Sofya Velikaya, who occupies the first line of the world ranking. It seemed that she had been going to this victory all her life. She was the first "natural saber fencer" in our team - a girl who did not switch to this sport from another, but immediately began fencing with a saber.

The athlete could become truly great much earlier - four years ago in London, at the anniversary XXX summer Olympic Games. It didn’t work out - in the final, the Russian woman was opposed by the Korean athlete Kim Ji Young. It is not known what happened on the platform, but Sofia surrendered almost without a fight - the Korean won with a score of 15:9.

The final of the London Olympics. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

It is difficult to imagine how the fate of the Russian woman would have developed after the Olympic Games if successful. Even before the start, she was visited by thoughts of ending her career if she won. You still won’t jump above the gold medal, and continuing to fencing, stepping into your forties for the sake of repeating success, is not the best motivator for a girl.

But fate had its own way. The defeat only provoked the Great. At that moment, she realized that she could not avoid another four-year training cycle - she was shining too brightly in her eyes. gold medal hanging around the neck of a Korean woman.

Since then, Sofya, greedy for victories, won two world champion titles and became the winner of the European Championship five times. She has long proved to the whole world that she is the best saber fencer on the planet. It remained to prove it to herself - to win the gold of the Olympic Games.

But when Sophia was just starting to practice fencing, she could not even think that someday she would at least be at the Olympic Games. And the point here is not even that the girl did not believe in herself. Just before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the women's saber was not included in the program of the Summer Olympics.

After it became known that women's saber fencing competitions are still included in the program of the Olympic Games, many foil fencers middle class, who could hardly count on victory in their sport, began to retrain - switch to saber.

Sophia was different from them. For a long time, she was the only “natural saber fencer” in the entire Russian team. And she proved over and over again that relearning is both harder and worse than starting to learn something from the very beginning.

In 2003, 18-year-old Sofya Velikaya already became the European champion - the medal was won in the French Bourges in team competition. This was followed by another victory in the championship of the continent and the planet as part of the team in 2004. In 2005, Sophia became the second on the planet, having won silver. And in 2006, her first personal victory came to Velikaya - in Izmir she became the European champion, winning not only in the team, but also in the individual competition.

However, the first title of world champion, which would not have to be shared with anyone, Sophia had to wait for another five whole years. Only in 2011, on the eve of the start of the London Olympics, she was able to win the title of the strongest saber fencer on the planet - this fateful event took place in Catania, Italy, where Russia also won the team championship.

Sophia the Great (right), 2006. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

But, if not for Gregory the Great... Not the same Gregory the Great, who was the Pope at the turn of the 6th-7th centuries, but Sophia's elder brother. So, if not for him, perhaps we would not have had such a wonderful Olympic champion.

At one time, Grigory was the first to leave to train in Moscow. He was engaged in fencing and showed some promise. At some point, he called Sofya in Alma-Ata and said that, according to his information, saber fencing for women could soon be included in the program of the Olympic Games. He invited his sister to try himself in this sport and even advised a young coach, Dmitry Glotov, who was his friend.

Deciding that being a natural saber fencer is much better than retraining with a rapier, having weighed all the pros and cons, the still young Sophia packed up and set off to conquer Moscow.

The student has surpassed the teacher

But Sofya, apparently, was not destined to win at the Olympics. She was surpassed by another "natural saber fencer", much younger and more hungry for victories - 22-year-old Yana Yegoryan.

The girl had just begun to join the Russian team when the whole world was already talking about Sophia, and her defeat at the Olympic Games in London was considered an unfortunate accident - in 2012. However, in four short years, the novice saber fencer, who had just moved from juniors to the adult category, not only entered the top five saber fencers on the planet, but also began to challenge the recognized masters of this business.

Born in the capital of Armenia, the city of Yerevan, the girl moved with her parents to Khimki near Moscow when she was only six years old. Soon she was sent to fencing, which she began to practice under the guidance of Sergei Semin.

Yana Egoryan. Photo: RIA Novosti / Grigory Sysoev

In 2010, she was already the winner of the Olympic Games, only the youth ones, which were held in Singapore. Since 2012, when she first joined the adult Russian team. Yana managed to win three gold medals of the European Championship, from 2013 to 2016, become the winner, silver and bronze medalist of the world championships. But only one of these awards, the bronze of the world championship, was individual for Yana. And then there's the Olympics. A chance that Yana still did not have.

From 6 to 14 August in Rio de Janeiro will be held Olympic competitions fencing. The Olympic fencing tournament will last 9 days. Medals will be played in six personal and four team disciplines.

The site brings to your attention full schedule fencing competitions at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, use the program so as not to miss the performances of your favorite athletes. Root for your favorites, may the strongest win!

Fencing. Schedule of fencing competitions at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

August 6th Saturday -
Sword. Women. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals

August 7. Sunday -
Rapier. Men. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. award ceremony

8 August. Monday -
Saber. Women. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. award ceremony

August 9th. Tuesday -
Sword. Men. Individual championship
22:00 Semi-finals
23:15 Fight for third place
23:45 Final. award ceremony

August 10. Wednesday -
Rapier. Women. Individual championship
23:30 Semi-finals
01:20 Fight for third place
02:15 Final. award ceremony
Saber. Men. Individual championship
00:30 Semi-finals
01:50 Fight for third place
02:45 Final. Award ceremony

11th August. Thursday -
Sword. women. Team Championship
19:15 Semi-finals

12th of August. Friday -
Rapier. Men. Team championship
18:00 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:30 Final. Award ceremony

August 13th. Saturday -
Saber. Women. Team Championship
17:30 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:15 Final. Award ceremony

August 14th. Sunday
Sword. Men. Team championship
19:15 Semi-finals
23:00 Fight for third place
00:30 Final. Award ceremony