Fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 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.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 Reference

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Giuseppe Delfino Italy (ITA)	Allan Jay Great Britain (GBR)	Bruno Khabarov Soviet Union (URS)
Team épée	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Alberto Pellegrino Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Gianluigi Saccaro	Great Britain (GBR) Allan Jay Michael Howard John Pelling Henry Hoskyns Raymond Harrison Michael Alexander	Soviet Union (URS) Valentin Chernikov Guram Kostava Arnold Chernushevich Bruno Khabarov Aleksandr Pavlovsky
Individual foil	Viktor Zhdanovich Soviet Union (URS)	Yuri Sisikin Soviet Union (URS)	Albert Axelrod United States (USA)
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Zhdanovich Mark Midler Yuri Rudov Yuri Sisikin German Sveshnikov	Italy (ITA) Alberto Pellegrino Luigi Carpaneda Mario Curletto Aldo Aureggi Edoardo Mangiarotti	United Team of Germany (EUA) Jürgen Theuerkauff Tim Gerresheim Eberhard Mehl Jürgen Brecht
Individual sabre	Rudolf Karpati Hungary (HUN)	Zoltan Horvath Hungary (HUN)	Wladimiro Calarese Italy (ITA)
Team sabre	Hungary (HUN) Tamas Mendelenyi Rudolf Karpati Pál Kovács Zoltan Horvath Gabor Delneki Aladár Gerevich	Poland (POL) Andrzej Piatkowski Emil Ochyra Wojciech Zablocki Jerzy Pawłowski Ryszard Zub Marian Kuszewski	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Giampaolo Calanchini Pierluigi Chicca Roberto Ferrari Mario Ravagnan

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Adelheid Schmid United Team of Germany (EUA)	Valentina Rastvorova Soviet Union (URS)	Maria Vicol Romania (ROM)
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS) Valentina Prudskova Aleksandra Zabelina Lyudmila Shishova Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko Galina Gorokhova Valentina Rastvorova	Hungary (HUN) Györgyi Szekely-Marvalics Ildiko Rejto-Ujlaki Magdolna Nyari-Kovacs Katalin Juhasz-Nagy Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics	Italy (ITA) Bruna Colombetti Velleda Cesari Claudia Pasini Irene Camber Antonella Ragno-Lonzi

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	0	4
3	Italy (ITA)	2	1	3	6
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	1	2
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
6	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
7	Romania (ROM)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

[edit] Reference

• Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on December 22, 2006.

Events at the 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome)
Athletics • Basketball • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Fencing at the Summer Olympics
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