The easiest way to scrap in Paris next summer (July 26-August 11) is the team event: each country qualified in a team weapon automatically sends three shooters for the individual events. The first four nations in the world ranking between April 2023 and April 2024 are qualified, as well as the best nations in each zone (Europe, Americas, Asia/Oceania, Africa) beyond the top 4, provided they appear in the first sixteen. The team events of the Worlds, continental championships and World Cups are taken into account to establish this classification, with a doubling of the points distributed during the World Championships, hence the importance of succeeding in the competitions in Milan.
For fencers from nations not qualified for team competitions, an individual parallel ranking is established. This ranking will allow six athletes to qualify, within the limit of one fencer per country: the two best Europeans, the two best Asians, the best American, and the best African Finally, for the countries that have not yet won a place, four qualifying zone tournaments will take place in the spring of 2024 and will issue the last four tickets.
Banned from team competition by the International Fencing Federation (FIE), Russians and Belarusians can only line up in the individual tournament, provided they have met the criteria for Neutral Individual Athlete (AIN) status. Of the fifteen medalists from the Russian Olympic Committee at the Tokyo Olympics, only Vladislav Mylnikov, one of the Olympic vice-champions in team foil, was awarded it.