Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 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	Carlo Pavesi   Italy	Giuseppe Delfino   Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti   Italy
team épée details	Italy  (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Hungary  (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár	France  (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
individual foil details	Christian d'Oriola   France	Giancarlo Bergamini   Italy	Antonio Spallino   Italy
team foil details	Italy  (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	France  (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Hungary  (HUN) Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics
individual sabre details	Rudolf Kárpáti   Hungary	Jerzy Pawłowski   Poland	Lev Kuznetsov   Soviet Union
team sabre details	Hungary  (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	Poland  (POL) Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub	Soviet Union  (URS) Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Gillian Sheen   Great Britain	Olga Orban   Romania	Renée Garilhe   France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy  (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary  (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	France  (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain  (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland  (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Romania  (ROM)	0	1	0	1
7	Soviet Union  (URS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

A total of 165 fencers (142 men and 23 women) from 23 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: ^[1]

•   Argentina  (1)
•   Australia  (21)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Belgium  (6)
•   Canada  (1)
•   Colombia  (6)
•   Denmark  (1)
•   Finland  (2)
•   France  (18)
•   United Team of Germany  (1)
•   Great Britain  (9)
•   Hungary  (18)
•   Indonesia  (1)
•   Italy  (19)
•   Japan  (1)
•   Luxembourg  (4)
•   Mexico  (3)
•   Poland  (6)
•   Romania  (2)
•   Soviet Union  (20)
•   Sweden  (5)
•   Uruguay  (1)
•   United States  (18)

References

1. "Fencing: 1956 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2010.