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.
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]
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