Ireland's Siobhan Byrne qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in women's sabre by winning the silver medal at the European qualifying tournament in Istanbul.
Nine countries were competing for the two European zonal slots available; Romania, Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Iceland, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, and host Turkey.
PORTLAND, OR - 2004 Gold Medalist Mariel Zagunis and Olympic Veteran Keeth Smart will lead the US Women's and Men's Sabre teams at the 2008 Olympic Games.
The United States qualified three teams for Olympic competition - Women's Sabre, Men's Sabre, and Women's Foil.
The French fencing teams are designed around the team events, which showed when final qualifications were posted on the International Fencing Federation (FIE) site this week. Though France failed to qualify a team in women's foil, they end the qualifying process ranked at #1 for the remaining three team events: Women's Sabre, Men's Sabre, and Men's Epee.
March marks the last month for earning points to qualify teams and individuals for the 2008 Olympic Fencing competitions in Beijing.
The last Men's Epee team competition was held in Stockholm on March 9th, which sealed the fate for the US squad and one more event remails for the men's and women's sabre squads to attempt to change their seeding, but at this point most of the team spots are set.
March marks the last month for earning points to qualify teams and individuals for the 2008 Olympic Fencing competitions in Beijing. 
