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A fencing piste is 14 metres long

It is 1.5 to 2 metres wide with a centre line and two-metre guard lines Fencers start 4 metres apart in the middle and a touch is awarded if one retreats off the back of the piste. The metal strip conducts so that hits register on the scoring machine. The floor is grounded to prevent stray touches being recorded. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Fédération Internationale d'Escrime

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It is 1.5 to 2 metres wide with a centre line and two-metre guard lines. The figure is taken from Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.