Fencing
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad

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
 Arnd Schmitt
 West Germany		 Philippe Riboud
 France		 Andrey Shuvalov
 Soviet Union
team épée
  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
 Stefano Cerioni
 Italy		 Udo Wagner
 East Germany		 Alexandr Romankov
 Soviet Union
Team foil
  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
Jean-François Lamour
 France		 Janusz Olech
 Poland		 Giovanni Scalzo
 Italy
Team sabre
 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
 Anja Fichtel
 West Germany		 Sabine Bau
 West Germany		 Zita Funkenhauser
 West Germany
Team foil
  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]

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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fencing: 1988 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
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