Individual competitions: One qualifying round of pools, a preliminary direct elimination table, a main direct elimination table of 64 fencers to qualify for a final by direct elimination.
Team competitions: Integral direct elimination with a direct elimination table which may be incomplete. All places in the table up to 16th place will be fought for. From 17th place onwards teams will be classified, within each round of the table, according to their initial place in the table. The first four teams will be placed in the direct elimination table according to the current official team ranking of the FIE (cf. o.86), the remaining ranked teams will be placed in the table by drawing of lots in pairs. The teams that are not classified will occupy the last places in the table and will be separated by drawing of lots (cf. o.42-o.47). | 
