Fencing at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad | |
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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]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual foil | Anja Fichtel ![]() | Sabine Bau ![]() | Zita Funkenhauser ![]() |
Team foil | ![]() Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber | ![]() Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi | ![]() Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |
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 |
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1 | ![]() | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games: [1]