Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.^[1] They were held between August 1 and 11 at the Long Beach Convention Center.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Philippe Boisse France	Björne Väggö Sweden	Philippe Riboud France
team épée	West Germany (FRG) Elmar Borrmann Volker Fischer Gerhard Heer Rafael Nickel Alexander Pusch	France (FRA) Philippe Boisse Jean-Michel Henry Olivier Lenglet Philippe Riboud Michel Salesse	Italy (ITA) Stefano Bellone Sandro Cuomo Cosimo Ferro Roberto Manzi Angelo Mazzoni
Individual foil	Mauro Numa Italy	Matthias Behr West Germany	Stefano Cerioni Italy
team foil	Italy (ITA) Mauro Numa Andrea Borella Stefano Cerioni Angelo Scuri Andrea Cipressa	West Germany (FRG) Matthias Behr Matthias Gey Harald Hein Frank Beck Klaus Reichert	France (FRA) Philippe Omnès Patrick Groc Frédéric Pietruszka Pascal Jolyot Marc Cerboni
individual sabre	Jean-François Lamour France	Marco Marin Italy	Peter Westbrook United States
team sabre	Italy (ITA) Marco Marin Gianfranco Dalla Barba Giovanni Scalzo Ferdinando Meglio Angelo Arcidiacono	France (FRA) Jean-François Lamour Pierre Guichot Hervé Granger-Veyron Philippe Delrieu Franck Ducheix	Romania (ROU) Marin Mustață Ioan Pop Alexandru Chiculiță Cornel Marin Vilmoș Szabo

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Luan Jujie China	Cornelia Hanisch West Germany	Dorina Vaccaroni Italy
team foil	West Germany (FRG) Ute Kircheis-Wessel Christiane Weber Cornelia Hanisch Sabine Bischoff Zita Funkenhauser	Romania (ROU) Aurora Dan Monika Weber-Koszto Rozalia Oros Marcela Moldovan-Zsak Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan	France (FRA) Laurence Modaine Pascale Trinquet-Hachin Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin Véronique Brouquier Anne Meygret

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	1	3	7
2	West Germany (FRG)	2	3	0	5
3	France (FRA)	2	2	3	7
4	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
5	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
7	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

A total of 262 fencers (202 men and 60 women) from 38 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:^[1]

Argentina (10)
Australia (3)
Austria (8)
Belgium (4)
Bolivia (1)
Canada (15)
China (18)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Egypt (6)
France (20)
Great Britain (20)
Greece (1)
Haiti (2)

Hong Kong (5)
Israel (4)
Italy (20)
Japan (9)
Jordan (1)
South Korea (7)
Kuwait (9)
Lebanon (4)
Mexico (1)
Monaco (1)
New Zealand (2)
Norway (6)

References

1 2 "Fencing: 1984 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-04-26.

External links

Official Olympic Report

Events at the 1984 Summer Olympics (Los Angeles)

Archery Athletics Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Tennis (demonstration) Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

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