Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four fencing events were contested.

The 1908 Games were the first to lack a foil competition. Foil fencing, "not being in the opinion of the organisers a form of sport which is improved by competition,[1]" was held only as a display. The 1908 Olympics did introduce team sabre and épée competitions. As in the 1904 edition, the London Games held no events for masters; all fencing was done by amateurs.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Épée, Individual
 Gaston Alibert
 France		 Alexandre Lippmann
 France		 Eugène Olivier
 France
Épée, Team
  France (FRA)
Gaston Alibert
Herman Georges Berger
Charles Collignon
Eugène Olivier		  Great Britain (GBR)
Charles Leaf Daniell
Cecil Haig
Martin Holt
Robert Montgomerie		  Belgium (BEL)
Paul Anspach
Desire Beaurain
Ferdinand Feyerick
François Rom
Sabre, Individual
 Jenő Fuchs
 Hungary		 Béla Zulawszky
 Hungary		 Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf
 Bohemia
Sabre, Team
  Hungary (HUN)
Jenő Fuchs
Oszkár Gerde
Péter Tóth
Lajos Werkner
Dezső Földes 		 Italy (ITA)
Marcello Bertinetti
Riccardo Nowak
Abelardo Olivier
Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli
Sante Ceccherini		  Bohemia (BOH)
Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský
Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf
Bedřich Schejbal
Jaroslav Šourek-Tuček
Otakar Lada

Participating nations

131 fencers from 14 nations competed.[2]

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  France (FRA) 2 1 1 4
2  Hungary (HUN) 2 1 0 3
3  Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 0 1
 Italy (ITA) 0 1 0 1
5  Bohemia (BOH) 0 0 2 2
6  Belgium (BEL) 0 0 1 1

References

  1. ↑ Official Report, p. 127
  2. ↑ "Fencing: 1908 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-12-24.

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