Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 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	Gyözö Kulcsar Hungary (HUN)	Grigori Kriss Soviet Union (URS)	Gianluigi Saccaro Italy (ITA)
Team épée	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Fenyvesi Zoltan Nemere Pál Schmitt Gyözö Kulcsar Pal Nagy	Soviet Union (URS) Grigori Kriss Iosif Vitebsky Aleksei Nikanchikov Yuri Smolyakov Viktor Modzalevsky	Poland (POL) Bogdan Andrzejewski Michal Butkiewicz Bogdan Gonsior Henryk Nielaba Kazimierz Barburski
Individual foil	Ion Drimba Romania (ROM)	Jenö Kamuti Hungary (HUN)	Daniel Revenu France (FRA)
Team foil	France (FRA) Daniel Revenu Gilles Berolatti Christian Noël Jean-Claude Magnan Jacques Dimont	Soviet Union (URS) German Sveshnikov Yuri Sharov Vasili Stankovich Viktor Putyatin Yuri Sisikin	Poland (POL) Witold Woyda Zbigniew Skrudlik Ryszard Parulski Egon Franke Adam Lisewski
Individual sabre	Jerzy Pawłowski Poland (POL)	Mark Rakita Soviet Union (URS)	Tibor Pezsa Hungary (HUN)
Team sabre	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidjak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita Umar Mavlikhanov	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Pierluigi Chicca Rolando Rigoli	Hungary (HUN) Tamas Kovacs Janos Kalmar Peter Bakonyi Miklos Meszena Tibor Pezsa

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Elena Novikova-Belova Soviet Union (URS)	Pilar Roldan Mexico (MEX)	Ildiko Rejto-Ujlaki Hungary (HUN)
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Zabelina Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko Elena Novikova-Belova Galina Gorokhova Svetlana Chirkova	Hungary (HUN) Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics Ildiko Bobis-Ferkasinszky Ildiko Rejto-Ujlaki Maria Jarmy Paula Marosi-Foldesi	Romania (ROM) Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Maria Vicol Olga Orban-Szabo Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	3	7
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROM)	1	0	1	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1

[edit] Reference

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

Events at the 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico City)
Athletics • Basketball • Basque pelota (demonstration) • Boxing • Canoeing • Cycling • Diving • Equestrian • Fencing • Football • Gymnastics • Hockey • Modern pentathlon • Rowing • Sailing • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis (demonstration) • Volleyball • Water polo • Weightlifting • Wrestling

Fencing at the Summer Olympics
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