Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, three fencing events were contested at the Zappeion. They were prepared and organized by the Sub-Committee for Fencing. The épée event for men was cancelled. All fencing was done to three touches. Events were held on 7 April and 9 April 1896. 15 athletes from four nations competed; 8 fencers from 3 nations won one medal each.

Medal summary

The final sword match 1896 Summer Olympics

These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte  France	Henri Callot  France	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis  Greece
Masters foil	Leonidas Pyrgos  Greece	Joanni Perronet  France	none
Sabre	Ioannis Georgiadis  Greece	Tilemachos Karakalos  Greece	Holger Nielsen  Denmark

Participating nations

Fencing before the king of Greece, 1896, by André Castaigne

A total of 15 fencers from four nations competed at the Athens Games:

•  Austria (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  France (4)
•  Greece (9)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	2	1	1	4
2	France	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark	0	0	1	1

Sub-Committee for Fencing

• Ioannis Phokianos, president
• Georgios Streit, secretary
• Ioannis Yenissarlis
• Loukas Belos
• Nikolaos Politis
• Chas. Waldstein
• Dimitrios Aiginitis
• Dimitrios Sekkeris
• Spyridon Koumoundouros
• Konstantinos Manos
• Spyridon Antonopoulos

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

• List of Olympic medalists in fencing (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)

References

• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck.  (Digitally available at )
• Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9.  (Excerpt available at )
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.