Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

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Russian Ivan Tourchine and American Weston Kelsey duel in the second round of the Olympic Men's Individual Epee event at the Helliniko Fencing Hall on Aug. 17, 2004.
Russian Ivan Tourchine and American Weston Kelsey duel in the second round of the Olympic Men's Individual Epee event at the Helliniko Fencing Hall on Aug. 17, 2004.

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre.

Fencing is one of only four sports that have been featured in every modern Olympic Games, and for the first time female competitors competed individually using the sabre. The Lexan window mask showing the athletes faces were used for the first time at the Olympics.

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[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual Épée
details
Switzerland Marcel Fischer
Switzerland (SUI)
China Wang Lei
China (CHN)
Russia Pavel Kolobkov
Russia (RUS)
Team épée
details
France France (FRA)
Fabrice Jeannet
Jerome Jeannet
Hugues Obry
Érik Boisse
Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Gábor Boczkó
Krisztián Kulcsár
Iván Kovács
Géza Imre
Germany Germany (GER)
Sven Schmid
Jörg Fiedler
Daniel Strigel
Individual Foil
details
France Brice Guyart
France (FRA)
Italy Salvatore Sanzo
Italy (ITA)
Italy Andrea Cassarà
Italy (ITA)
Team foil
details
Italy Italy (ITA)
Andrea Cassarà
Salvatore Sanzo
Simone Vanni
China China (CHN)
Dong Zhaozhi
Wang Haibin
Wu Hanxiong
Ye Chong
Russia Russia (RUS)
Renal Ganeev
Youri Moltchan
Rouslan Nassiboulline
Viatcheslav Pozdniakov
Individual Sabre
details
Italy Aldo Montano
Italy (ITA)
Hungary Zsolt Nemcsik
Hungary (HUN)
Ukraine Vladislav Tretiak
Ukraine (UKR)
Team sabre
details
France France (FRA)
Julien Pillet
Damien Touya
Gael Touya
Italy Italy (ITA)
Aldo Montano
Gianpiero Pastore
Luigi Tarantino
Russia Russia (RUS)
Serguei Charikov
Alexei Diatchenko
Stanislav Pozdniakov
Alexei Yakimenko

[edit] Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual Épée
details
Hungary Tímea Nagy
Hungary (HUN)
France Laura Flessel-Colovic
France (FRA)
France Maureen Nisima
France (FRA)
Team épée
details
Russia Russia (RUS)
Karina Aznavourian
Oxana Ermakova
Tatiana Logounova
Anna Sivkova
Germany Germany (GER)
Claudia Bokel
Imke Duplitzer
Britta Heidemann
France France (FRA)
Sarah Daninthe
Laura Flessel-Colovic
Hajnalka Kiraly Picot
Maureen Nisima
Individual Foil
details
Italy Valentina Vezzali
Italy (ITA)
Italy Giovanna Trillini
Italy (ITA)
Poland Sylwia Gruchała
Poland (POL)
Individual Sabre
details
United States Mariel Zagunis
United States (USA)
China Tan Xue
China (CHN)
United States Sada Jacobson
United States (USA)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Italy Italy (ITA) 3 3 1 7
2 France France (FRA) 3 1 2 6
3 Hungary Hungary (HUN) 1 2 0 3
4 Russia Russia (RUS) 1 0 3 4
5 United States United States (USA) 1 0 1 2
6 Switzerland Switzerland (SUI) 1 0 0 1
7 China China (CHN) 0 3 0 3
8 Germany Germany (GER) 0 1 1 2
9 Poland Poland (POL) 0 0 1 1
Ukraine Ukraine (UKR) 0 0 1 1