Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée	Carlo Pavesi Italy	Giuseppe Delfino Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy
team épée	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Hungary (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár	France (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
individual foil	Christian d'Oriola France	Giancarlo Bergamini Italy	Antonio Spallino Italy
team foil	Italy (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	France (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Hungary (HUN) Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics
individual sabre	Rudolf Kárpáti Hungary	Jerzy Pawłowski Poland	Lev Kuznetsov Soviet Union
team sabre	Hungary (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	Poland (POL) Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub	Soviet Union (URS) Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil	Gillian Sheen Great Britain	Olga Orban Romania	Renée Garilhe France

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2

A total of 165 fencers (142 men and 23 women) from 23 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:^[1]

1 2 "Fencing: 1956 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-10-10.

Events at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne/Stockholm)

Athletics Association football Australian football (demonstration) Baseball (demonstration) Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Gymnastics Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Fencing at the Summer Olympics

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