Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics

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

The final sword match 1896 Summer Olympics

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte France	Henri Callot France	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis Greece
Masters foil	Leonidas Pyrgos Greece	Joanni Perronet France	none
Sabre	Ioannis Georgiadis Greece	Telemachos Karakalos Greece	Holger Nielsen Denmark

Participating nations

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


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	2	1	1	4
2	France	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 nations)		3	3	2	8

Sub-Committee for Fencing

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

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References

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 )
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 )
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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