Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's foil

Women's foil at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Venue	St Kilda Town Hall
Dates	29 November
Competitors	23 from 11 nations
Medalists
Gillian Sheen   Great Britain   Olga Orban-Szabo   Romania   Renée Garilhe   France

Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Épée	men
Team épée	men
Foil	men		women
Team foil	men
Sabre	men
Team sabre	men

The women's foil was one of seven fencing events on the fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event. The competition was held on 29 November 1956. 23 fencers from 11 nations competed.^[1]

Results

Fencer	Country
Gillian Sheen	Great Britain
Olga Orban-Szabo	Romania
Renée Garilhe	France
Jan York-Romary	United States
Catherine Delbarre	France
Karen Lachmann	Denmark
Ellen Müller-Preis	Austria
Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini	Italy
Emma Yefimova	Soviet Union
Lídia Sákovicsné Dömölky	Hungary
Maxine Mitchell	United States
Pilar Roldán	Mexico
Velleda Cesari	Italy
Ecaterina Orb-Lazăr	Romania
Valentina Rastvorova	Soviet Union
Mary Glen-Haig	Great Britain
Nadezhda Shitikova	Soviet Union
Judy Goodrich	United States
Denise O'Brien	Australia
Régine Veronnet	France
Magda Nyári-Kovács	Hungary
Lois Joseph	Australia
Joy Hardon	Australia

References

1. "Fencing: 1956 Olympic Results - Women's foil". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-10-11.