People with disabilities such as amputations, spinal cord injuries, and cerebral palsy can compete in fencing events like epee, foil, and saber individually or as part of teams, similarly to Olympic fencing. Competitors use protective equipment including a jacket, leg pants, gloved hand, and face mask during bouts, and may use a wheelchair anchored to the ground. Sir Ludwig Guttmann helped establish wheelchair fencing as a sport for people with disabilities since the 1960 Rome Olympics.

2. Men and women with
amputations, spinal cord
injuries and cerebral
palsy are eligible to
compete in events: epee,
foil and saber, as in
Olympic fencing and they
participate as individuals
or in teams.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann

3.  All three weapons are flexible and made
mainly of steel.

4.  To defense theirselves they will use a jacket
or plastron to protect the chest , leg pants ,
a glove on the hand of the sword , a mask
to protect the entire face and a specific
wheelchair which is anchored to the ground
at the time of the duel.

5.  Since Rome 1960