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.
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** Up to 8 fencers spread across any team or individual events, additional to any qualifiers
References
Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA