Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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Fencing
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
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  1984
1992  

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

Men's events

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Individual épée
details
Arnd Schmitt
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Philippe Riboud
Flag of France.svg  France
Andrey Shuvalov
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
team épée
details
Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)
Frederic Delpla
Jean-Michel Henry
Olivier Lenglet
Philippe Riboud
Éric Srecki
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG)
Elmar Borrmann
Volker Fischer
Thomas Gerull
Alexander Pusch
Arnd Schmitt
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)
Andrey Shuvalov
Pavel Kolobkov
Vladimir Reznichenko
Mikhail Tishko
Igor Tikhomirov
Individual foil
details
Stefano Cerioni
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Udo Wagner
Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Alexandr Romankov
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Team foil
details
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)
Vladimer Aptsiauri
Anvar Ibragimov
Boris Koretsky
Ilgar Mamedov
Aleksander Romankov
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG)
Matthias Behr
Thomas Endres
Matthias Gey
Ulrich Schreck
Thorsten Weidner
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)
István Busa
Zsolt Érsek
Róbert Gátai
Pál Szekeres
István Szelei
Individual sabre
details
Jean-François Lamour
Flag of France.svg  France
Janusz Olech
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Giovanni Scalzo
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Team sabre
details
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)
Imre Bujdosó
László Csongrádi
Imre Gedővári
György Nébald
Bence Szabó
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)
Andrey Alshan
Mikhail Burtsev
Sergey Koryashkin
Sergey Mindirgasov
Heorhiy Pohosov
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)
Massimo Cavaliere
Gianfranco Dalla Barba
Marco Marin
Ferdinando Meglio
Giovanni Scalzo

Women's events

GamesGoldSilverBronze
Individual foil
details
Anja Fichtel
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Sabine Bau
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Zita Funkenhauser
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany
Team foil
details
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG)
Sabine Bau
Anja Fichtel
Zita Funkenhauser
Anette Klug
Christiane Weber
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)
Francesca Bortolozzi Borella
Annapia Gandolfi
Lucia Traversa
Dorina Vaccaroni
Margherita Zalaffi
Flag of Hungary.svg  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]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany  (FRG)3317
2Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)2103
3Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union  (URS)1135
4Flag of Italy.svg  Italy  (ITA)1124
5Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary  (HUN)1023
6Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany  (GDR)0101
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland  (POL)0101
Totals (7 entries)88824

Participating nations

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fencing: 1988 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-14.