Italy competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 361 competitors, 246 men and 115 women, took part in 175 events in 29 sports.
Edoardo Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual gold, five team golds, five silver, and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.
Italy competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 168 competitors, 157 men and 11 women, took part in 91 events in 18 sports.
Margherita Granbassi is an Italian foil fencer.
Giovanna Trillini is an Italian foil fencer. She is a 4-time Olympic champion and she won an additional silver and two bronze medals in individual Olympic competitions.
Austria competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 56 competitors, 45 men and 11 women, took part in 54 events in 14 sports.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types, but women competed only in foil events.
The men's team foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eleventh appearance of the event. The competition was held on October 15 – 16 1964. 78 fencers from 16 nations competed.
The men's team épée was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held October 20–21, 1964, with 86 fencers from 18 nations competing.
The men's team sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held from October 22 – 23 1964. 61 fencers from 13 nations competed.
The women's team foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. It was the second appearance of the event. The competition was held from October 16 – 17 1964. 47 fencers from 10 nations competed.
Stefano Cerioni is an Italian foil fencer, Olympic team champion in 1984, Olympic champion in 1988 and World team champion in 1985 and 1994. He became a fencing master, then a director of foil, first for Italy, then for Russia, then again for Italy.
Emily Ruth Cross is a U.S. foil fencer who was a member of the 2008 Olympics U.S. Women's foil team. She is best known for helping win the team foil silver medal for the U.S. at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, along with teammates Erinn Smart and Hanna Thompson.
Valentyna Ksenofontivna Rastvorova was a Ukrainian who was a Soviet fencer who competed in the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics in the individual foil and team foil events. She won an individual silver medal and team gold medal in 1960, and a team silver medal in 1964. She also won six gold and two silver medals at the world championships of 1956–67.
Aldo Masciotta was an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team sabre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Ryszard Parulski was a Polish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze in the same event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Roland Losert is a retired Austrian fencer who won the world title in épée in 1963. He also won junior world titles in épée (1963) and foil. Losert competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in the individual foil and individual and team épée events. His best achievement was fourth place in the foil in 1964.
The men's sabre was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics programme. It was the sixteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 16 to 17 October 1968. 40 fencers from 16 nations competed. Nations had been limited to three fencers each since 1928. The event was won by Jerzy Pawłowski of Poland, breaking a nine-Games string of Hungarian victories in the event. Hungary's best result in the event was Tibor Pézsa's bronze; Pézsa beat Pawłowski in the final pool but the Hungarian lost two other bouts while the Pole was otherwise flawless. Mark Rakita of the Soviet Union lost only to Pawłowski in the final pool, forcing another bout to break the tie between them for gold and silver; that barrage bout was decided by a single point as Pawłowski beat Rakita 5–4.
Katja Wächter is a German foil fencer. In 2009, Wachter won a silver medal for the same weapon at the European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and bronze, as a member of the German fencing team, at the World Championships in Antalya, Turkey.
Masciotta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
