Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women. ^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée details	Luigi Cantone   Italy	Oswald Zappelli   Switzerland	Edoardo Mangiarotti   Italy
team épée details	France  (FRA) Maurice Huet Michel Pécheux Marcel Desprets Edouard Artigas Henri Guerin Henri Lepage	Italy  (ITA) Luigi Cantone Marc Antonio Mandruzzato Carlo Agostoni Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Dario Mangiarotti	Sweden  (SWE) Frank Cervell Carl Forssell Bengt Ljungquist Sven Thofelt Per Hjalmar Carleson Arne Tollbom
individual foil details	Jehan Buhan   France	Christian d'Oriola   France	Lajos Maszlay   Hungary
team foil details	France  (FRA) Adrien Rommel Christian d'Oriola Andre Bonin Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan René Bougnol	Italy  (ITA) Saverio Ragno Renzo Nostini Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Giuliano Nostini	Belgium  (BEL) André van de Werve de Vorsselaer Paul Louis Jean Valcke Raymond Bru Georges Camille De Bourgignon Henri Paternoster Edouard Yves
individual sabre details	Aladár Gerevich   Hungary	Vincenzo Pinton   Italy	Pál Kovács   Hungary
team sabre details	Hungary  (HUN) László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács	Italy  (ITA) Carlo Turcato Gastone Darè Vincenzo Pinton Mauro Racca Renzo Nostini Aldo Montano	United States  (USA) Miguel Angel De Capriles Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Dean Victor Cetrulo James Hummitzsch Flynn Tibor Andrew Nyilas

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Ilona Elek   Hungary	Karen Lachmann   Denmark	Ellen Mueller   Austria

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France  (FRA)	3	1	0	4
2	Hungary  (HUN)	3	0	2	5
3	Italy  (ITA)	1	4	1	6
4	Denmark  (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	United States  (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

A total of 294 fencers (255 men and 39 women) from 30 nations competed at the London Games: ^[1]

•   Argentina  (19)
•   Austria  (7)
•   Belgium  (18)
•   Brazil  (7)
•   Canada  (6)
•   Chile  (3)
•   Colombia  (2)
•   Cuba  (6)
•   Czechoslovakia  (5)
•   Denmark  (15)
•   Egypt  (9)
•   Finland  (6)
•   France  (21)
•   Great Britain  (19)
•   Greece  (6)
•   Hungary  (18)
•   Ireland  (5)
•   Italy  (19)
•   Luxembourg  (6)
•   Mexico  (9)
•   Netherlands  (9)
•   Norway  (5)
•   Peru  (3)
•   Poland  (7)
•   Portugal  (6)
•   Sweden  (8)
•   Switzerland  (19)
•   Turkey  (6)
•   United States  (20)
•   Uruguay  (5)

References

1. "Fencing: 1948 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-06-08.