if the bout is a final. If fencers are tied at the end of the nine minutes, a one-minute, sudden-death tiebreaker period is contested, in which the first fencer to score a touch is declared the winner ...

The bonus round for fencing featured 30-second bouts with fencers seeded by results of Thursday's ranking round. The winner of each bout stayed on to face the next athlete, and each win was worth ...