Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Olympics

Fencing

at the Games of the I Olympiad

The final sword match 1896 Summer Olympics

Venue| Zappeion
Dates| 7–9 April 1896
No. of events| 3 (3 men, 0 women)
Competitors| 15 from 4 nations

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Fencing at the
1896 Summer Olympics

Foil| men
Masters foil| men
Sabre| men

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At the 1896 Summer Olympics, three fencing events were contested at the Zappeion. They were prepared and organized by the Sub-Committee for Fencing. The épée event for men was cancelled. All fencing was done to three touches. Events were held on 7 April and 9 April 1896. 15 athletes from four nations competed; 8 fencers from 3 nations won one medal each.

## Medal summary

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These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal.

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Foil[1]
details | Eugène-Henri Gravelotte
France | Henri Callot
France | Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis
Greece
Athanasios Vouros
Greece
Masters foil[2]
details | Leonidas Pyrgos
Greece | Joanni Perronet
France | none
Sabre[3]
details | Ioannis Georgiadis
Greece | Telemachos Karakalos
Greece | Holger Nielsen
Denmark

## Participating nations

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Fencing before the king of Greece, 1896, by André Castaigne

A total of 15 fencers from four nations competed at the Athens Games:

*  Austria (1)
*  Denmark (1)
*  France (4)
*  Greece (9)

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Greece| 2| 1| 2| 5
2|  France| 1| 2| 0| 3
3|  Denmark| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (3 entries)| 3| 3| 3| 9

## Sub-Committee for Fencing

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* Ioannis Phokianos, president
* Georgios Streit, secretary
* Ioannis Yenissarlis
* Loukas Belos
* Nikolaos Politis
* Chas. Waldstein
* Dimitrios Aiginitis
* Dimitrios Sekkeris
* Spyridon Koumoundouros
* Konstantinos Manos
* Spyridon Antonopoulos

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics.

* List of Olympic medalists in fencing (men)
* List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)

## References

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1. ^ "Athens 1896 Fencing Foil Individual Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
2. ^ "Athens 1896 Fencing Foil Masters Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
3. ^ "Athens 1896 Fencing Sabre Individual Men Results". Olympics.com.

## External links

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* Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1])
* Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at [2])
* Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.

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