ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2026
Olympic fencing medallists are increasingly clustering around an age that has hardly changed (1896-2024).
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Fencing has been contested at every modern Olympic Games since 1896, giving it one of the longest continuous records in sports and an opportunity to examine whether an optimal age at medal-winning exists and whether it has changed. We examined every individual Olympic fencing medallist from 1896 to 2024, resulting in 379 medals won by 286 athletes across foil, épée, and sabre. Of these, the available birth date records of 282 athletes (>95% of the total) were retained, resulting in 375 medals with a date of birth resolved to the day of each event, and the analyses based on those. Across the full 128 years, the average medallist was 28.8 years old, and gold, silver, and bronze medallists were the same age as one another (
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