Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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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]

Medal summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Anja Fichtel   West Germany	Sabine Bau   West Germany	Zita Funkenhauser   West Germany
Team foil details	West Germany  (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber	Italy  (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi	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]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany  (FRG)	3	3	1	7
2	France  (FRA)	2	1	0	3
3	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	1	3	5
4	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	2	4
5	Hungary  (HUN)	1	0	2	3
6	East Germany  (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

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

•   Argentina  (2)
•   Aruba  (1)
•   Australia  (2)
•   Austria  (5)
•   Bahrain  (4)
•   Belgium  (2)
•   Bolivia  (1)
•   Brazil  (4)
•   Bulgaria  (5)
•   Canada  (18)
•   China  (15)
•   Chinese Taipei  (2)
•   Colombia  (5)
•   East Germany  (7)
•   Egypt  (2)
•   Finland  (1)
•   France  (19)
•   Great Britain  (13)
•   Hong Kong  (7)
•   Hungary  (20)
•   Indonesia  (2)
•   Italy  (20)
•   Japan  (10)
•   Jordan  (1)
•   Kuwait  (8)
•   Lebanon  (2)
•   Mexico  (1)
•   Monaco  (1)
•   Netherlands  (5)
•   New Zealand  (1)
•   Paraguay  (2)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Poland  (18)
•   Portugal  (3)
•   Romania  (2)
•   South Korea  (20)
•   Soviet Union  (20)
•   Spain  (8)
•   Sweden  (11)
•   Switzerland  (7)
•   United States  (19)
•   West Germany  (20)

References

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

External links

• Official Olympic Report