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At the 1992 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual foil | Giovanna Trillini  Italy | Wang Huifeng  China | Tatyana Sadovskaya  Unified Team (  Russia) |
| team foil |  Italy (ITA)Diana Bianchedi Francesca Bortolozzi Giovanna Trillini Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi |  Germany (GER)Sabine Bau Zita Funkenhauser Annette Dobmeier Anja Fichtel-Mauritz Monika Weber-Koszto |  Romania (ROU)Reka Szabo-Lazar Claudia Grigorescu Elisabeta Tufan Laura Badea Roxana Dumitrescu |
Germany and Italy finished joint-top of the fencing medal table at the 1992 Summer Olympics. [1]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 3 |  France (FRA) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 |  Unified Team (EUN) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 |  Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 |  Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 |  China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 |  Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romania (ROM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (9 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 | |
A total of 305 fencers (234 men and 71 women) from 42 nations competed at the Barcelona Games: [1]
Argentina (5)
Australia (2)
Austria (5)
Brazil (4)
Canada (16) China (15)
Colombia (2)
Costa Rica (1) Cuba (5)
Czechoslovakia (5)
Estonia (2)
Egypt (1) France (20) Germany (20)
Great Britain (15)
Greece (1)
Honduras (1)
Hong Kong (3) Hungary (20)
Indonesia (2) Independent Olympic Participants (1)
Ireland (1)
Israel (1) Italy (20)
Japan (6)
Kuwait (1)
Lebanon (2)
New Zealand (1)
Paraguay (2)
Philippines (1) Poland (20)
Portugal (4) Romania (15)
Saudi Arabia (1)
Singapore (2)
South Africa (5)
South Korea (15)
Spain (17)
Sweden (6)
Switzerland (3) Unified Team (20)
United States (16)At the 2000 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types. Women competed in the foil and the épée events. The events took place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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