Qualification will be primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as of April 2, 2012, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments.
Teams will be composed of 3 fencers.
For teams to qualify they must be ranked in the top 16, if a continent is not ranked in the top 16 the next best placed country will take their spot.
[2] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] ** Up to 8 fencers spread across any team or individual events, additional to any qualifiers