Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Fencing at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |
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Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics | ||
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Épée | men | women |
Team épée | men | women |
Foil | men | women |
Team foil | men | women |
Sabre | men | |
Team sabre | men | |
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Women's épée events made a debut at these Games.[1][2]
Medal summary
[edit]Men's events
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual épée | Aleksandr Beketov Russia | Iván Trevejo Cuba | Géza Imre Hungary |
team épée | Italy (ITA) Sandro Cuomo Angelo Mazzoni Maurizio Randazzo | Russia (RUS) Aleksandr Beketov Pavel Kolobkov Valery Zakharevich | France (FRA) Jean-Michel Henry Robert Leroux Éric Srecki |
Individual foil | Alessandro Puccini Italy | Lionel Plumenail France | Franck Boidin France |
team foil | Russia (RUS) Dmitriy Shevchenko Ilgar Mamedov Vladislav Pavlovich | Poland (POL) Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Jarosław Rodzewicz | Cuba (CUB) Elvis Gregory Rolando Leon Oscar García Perez |
Individual sabre | Stanislav Pozdnyakov Russia | Sergey Sharikov Russia | Damien Touya France |
team sabre | Russia (RUS) Stanislav Pozdnyakov Grigoriy Kirienko Sergey Sharikov | Hungary (HUN) Csaba Köves József Navarrete Bence Szabó | Italy (ITA) Raffaello Caserta Luigi Tarantino Toni Terenzi |
Women's events
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual épée | Laura Flessel France | Valérie Barlois France | Gyöngyi Szalay Hungary |
team épée | France (FRA) Laura Flessel Sophie Moressée-Pichot Valérie Barlois | Italy (ITA) Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi | Russia (RUS) Maria Mazina Yuliya Garayeva Karina Aznavourian |
Individual foil | Laura Badea Romania | Valentina Vezzali Italy | Giovanna Trillini Italy |
team foil | Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali | Romania (ROU) Laura Badea Reka Szabo Roxana Scarlat | Germany (GER) Anja Fichtel Mauritz Sabine Bau Monika Weber-Koszto |
Medal table
[edit]Russia finished atop of the fencing medal table at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Russia (RUS) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
2 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
3 | France (FRA) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
4 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
6 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
7 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Participating nations
[edit]A total of 224 fencers (136 men and 88 women) from 46 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:[1]
- Algeria (2)
- Argentina (4)
- Australia (1)
- Austria (3)
- Azerbaijan (1)
- Belarus (1)
- Bolivia (1)
- Bulgaria (3)
- Canada (7)
- China (9)
- Chile (1)
- Colombia (2)
- Cuba (7)
- Czech Republic (1)
- Denmark (1)
- Estonia (6)
- Finland (1)
- France (15)
- Georgia (1)
- Germany (15)
- Great Britain (2)
- Greece (1)
- Guatemala (1)
- Hungary (15)
- Israel (3)
- Italy (16)
- Japan (4)
- Kazakhstan (1)
- Kuwait (1)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Paraguay (1)
- Poland (11)
- Portugal (1)
- Puerto Rico (1)
- Romania (9)
- Russia (15)
- FR Yugoslavia (1)
- South Korea (13)
- Spain (11)
- Sweden (2)
- Switzerland (5)
- Tunisia (1)
- Ukraine (6)
- United States (15)
- Uzbekistan (1)
- Venezuela (4)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Fencing: 1996 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
- ^ "Olympedia – Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics".