Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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]

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Medal summary

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Men's events

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
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Arnd Schmitt
  West Germany
Philippe Riboud
  France
Andrey Shuvalov
  Soviet Union
team épée
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  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
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Stefano Cerioni
  Italy
Udo Wagner
  East Germany
Alexandr Romankov
  Soviet Union
Team foil
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  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
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Jean-François Lamour
  France
Janusz Olech
  Poland
Giovanni Scalzo
  Italy
Team sabre
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  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

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
Individual foil
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Anja Fichtel
  West Germany
Sabine Bau
  West Germany
Zita Funkenhauser
  West Germany
Team foil
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  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

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

Participating nations

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

References

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