Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre). Women competed in the foil and the épée events.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Aleksandr Beketov Russia	Iván Trevejo Cuba	Géza Imre Hungary
team épée	Italy (ITA) Sandro Cuomo Angelo Mazzoni Maurizio Randazzo	Russia (RUS) Aleksandr Beketov Pavel Kolobkov Valery Zakharevich	France (FRA) Jean-Michel Henry Robert Leroux Éric Srecki
Individual foil	Alessandro Puccini Italy	Lionel Plumenail France	Franck Boidin France
team foil	Russia (RUS) Dmitriy Shevchenko Ilgar Mamedov Vladislav Pavlovich	Poland (POL) Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Jarosław Rodzewicz	Cuba (CUB) Elvis Gregory Rolando Leon Oscar García Perez
Individual sabre	Stanislav Pozdnyakov Russia	Sergey Sharikov Russia	Damien Touya France
team sabre	Russia (RUS) Stanislav Pozdnyakov Grigoriy Kirienko Sergey Sharikov	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Köves József Navarrete Bence Szabó	Italy (ITA) Raffaello Caserta Luigi Tarantino Toni Terenzi

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Laura Flessel France	Valérie Barlois France	Gyöngyi Szalay Hungary
team épée	France (FRA) Laura Flessel Sophie Moressée-Pichot Valérie Barlois	Italy (ITA) Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi	Russia (RUS) Maria Mazina Yuliya Garayeva Karina Aznavourian
Individual foil	Laura Badea Romania	Valentina Vezzali Italy	Giovanna Trillini Italy
team foil	Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali	Romania (ROU) Laura Badea Reka Szabo Roxana Scarlat	Germany (GER) Anja Fichtel Mauritz Sabine Bau Monika Weber-Koszto

Medal table

Russia finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	2	1	7
2	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
3	France (FRA)	2	2	3	7
4	Romania (ROM)	1	1	0	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
6	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
8	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

A total of 224 fencers (136 men and 88 women) from 46 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:^[1]

Algeria (2)
Argentina (4)
Australia (1)
Austria (3)
Azerbaijan (1)
Belarus (1)
Bolivia (1)
Bulgaria (3)
Canada (7)
China (9)
Chile (1)
Colombia (2)

Cuba (7)
Czech Republic (1)
Denmark (1)
Estonia (6)
Finland (1)
France (15)
Georgia (1)
Germany (15)
Great Britain (2)
Greece (1)
Guatemala (1)

Hungary (15)
Israel (3)
Italy (16)
Japan (4)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kuwait (1)
Luxembourg (1)
Paraguay (1)
Poland (11)
Portugal (1)
Puerto Rico (1)
Romania (9)

References

1 2 3 "Fencing: 1996 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-30.

External links

Official Olympic Report

Events at the 1996 Summer Olympics (Atlanta)

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