Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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Fencing at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, eight events in fencing 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

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### Men's events

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Individual épée
details | Grigory Kriss
Soviet Union | Henry Hoskyns
Great Britain | Guram Kostava
Soviet Union
Team épée
details |  Hungary (HUN)
Árpád Bárány
Tamás Gábor
István Kausz
Győző Kulcsár
Zoltán Nemere |  Italy (ITA)
Giovan Battista Breda
Giuseppe Delfino
Gianfranco Paolucci
Alberto Pellegrino
Gianluigi Saccaro |  France (FRA)
Claude Bourquard
Claude Brodin
Jacques Brodin
Yves Dreyfus
Jack Guittet
Individual foil
details | Egon Franke
Poland | Jean Claude Magnan
France | Daniel Revenu
France
Team foil
details |  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Zhdanovich
Yuri Sharov
Yuri Sisikin
German Sveshnikov
Mark Midler |  Poland (POL)
Witold Woyda
Zbigniew Skrudlik
Ryszard Parulski
Egon Franke
Janusz Rozycki |  France (FRA)
Jacky Courtillat
Jean-Claude Magnan
Christian Noël
Daniel Revenu
Pierre Rodocanachi
Individual sabre
details | Tibor Pézsa
Hungary | Claude Arabo
France | Umar Mavlikhanov
Soviet Union
Team sabre
details |  Soviet Union (URS)
Boris Melnikov
Nugzar Asatiani
Mark Rakita
Yakov Rylsky
Umar Mavlikhanov |  Italy (ITA)
Giampaolo Calanchini
Wladimiro Calarese
Pier-Luigi Chicca
Mario Ravagnan
Cesare Salvadori |  Poland (POL)
Emil Ochyra
Jerzy Pawłowski
Ryszard Zub
Andrzej Piatkowski
Wojciech Zabłocki

### Women's events

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Games  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Individual foil
details | Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Hungary | Helga Mees
United Team of Germany | Antonella Ragno
Italy
Team foil
details |  Hungary (HUN)
Paula Marosi
Katalin Juhász
Judit Ágoston
Lídia Dömölky
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő |  Soviet Union (URS)
Lyudmila Shishova
Valentina Prudskova
Valentina Rastvorova
Tatyana Samusenko
Galina Gorokhova |  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Heidi Schmid
Helga Mees
Rosemarie Scherberger
Gudrun Theuerkauff

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Hungary (HUN)| 4| 0| 0| 4
2|  Soviet Union (URS)| 3| 1| 2| 6
3|  Poland (POL)| 1| 1| 1| 3
4|  France (FRA)| 0| 2| 3| 5
5|  Italy (ITA)| 0| 2| 1| 3
6|  United Team of Germany (EUA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
7|  Great Britain (GBR)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Totals (7 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## Participating nations

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A total of 259 fencers (203 men and 56 women) from 30 nations competed at the Tokyo Games:[1]

* Argentina (11)
* Australia (18)
* Austria (5)
* Belgium (2)
* Canada (3)
* Chile (3)
* Colombia (5)
* Cuba (2)
* Egypt (5)
* France (20)
* United Team of Germany (19)
* Great Britain (13)
* Hungary (20)
* Iran (4)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (20)
* Japan (15)
* Lebanon (4)
* Luxembourg (2)
* Malaysia (1)
* Netherlands Antilles (1)
* Northern Rhodesia (1)
* Poland (15)
* Romania (11)
* South Korea (5)
* Soviet Union (20)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (5)
* United States (18)
* Vietnam (2)

## References

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1. ^ a b "Fencing: 1964 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-12-08.

## Sources

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

* Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.

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