Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

At the 1988 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events 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]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's épée	Arnd Schmitt West Germany (FRG)	Philippe Riboud France (FRA)	Andrey Shuvalov Soviet Union (URS)
Men's team épée	France (FRA) Frederic Delpla Jean-Michel Henry Olivier Lenglet Philippe Riboud Éric Srecki	West Germany (FRG) Elmar Borrmann Volker Fischer Thomas Gerull Alexander Pusch Arnd Schmitt	Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Shuvalov Pavel Kolobkov Vladimir Reznichenko Mikhail Tishko Igor Tikhomirov
Men's foil	Stefano Cerioni Italy (ITA)	Udo Wagner East Germany (GDR)	Alexandr Romankov Soviet Union (URS)
Men's team foil	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimer Aptsiauri Anvar Ibragimov Boris Koretsky Ilgar Mamedov Aleksander Romankov	West Germany (FRG) Matthias Behr Thomas Endres Matthias Gey Ulrich Schreck Thorsten Weidner	Hungary (HUN) István Busa Zsolt Érsek Róbert Gátai Pál Szekeres István Szelei
Men's sabre	Jean-François Lamour France (FRA)	Janusz Olech Poland (POL)	Giovanni Scalzo Italy (ITA)
Men's team sabre	Hungary (HUN) Imre Bujdosó László Csongrádi Imre Gedővári György Nébald Bence Szabó	Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Alshan Mikhail Burtsev Sergey Koryashkin Sergey Mindirgasov Heorhiy Pohosov	Italy (ITA) Massimo Cavaliere Gianfranco Dalla Barba Marco Marin Ferdinando Meglio Giovanni Scalzo
Women's foil	Anja Fichtel-Mauritz West Germany (FRG)	Sabine Bau West Germany (FRG)	Zita Funkenhauser West Germany (FRG)
Women's team foil	West Germany (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel-Mauritz Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber	Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi	Hungary (HUN) Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák

Medal table

West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	3	3	1	7
2	France (FRA)	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	3	5
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	2	4
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	2	3
6	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
6	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1

Participating nations

A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games:^[1]

Argentina (2)
Aruba (1)
Australia (2)
Austria (5)
Bahrain (4)
Belgium (2)
Bolivia (1)
Brazil (4)
Bulgaria (5)
Canada (18)
China (15)

Chinese Taipei (2)
Colombia (5)
East Germany (7)
Egypt (2)
Finland (1)
France (19)
Great Britain (13)
Hong Kong (7)
Hungary (20)
Indonesia (2)

Italy (20)
Japan (10)
Jordan (1)
Kuwait (8)
Lebanon (2)
Mexico (1)
Monaco (1)
Netherlands (5)
New Zealand (1)
Paraguay (2)
Philippines (1)

Poland (18)
Portugal (3)
Romania (2)
South Korea (20)
Soviet Union (20)
Spain (8)
Sweden (11)
Switzerland (7)
United States (19)
West Germany (20)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Fencing: 1988 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-07-14.

External links

Official Olympic Report

Events at the 1988 Summer Olympics (Seoul)

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

Fencing at the Summer Olympics

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