Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics

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At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Győző Kulcsár  Hungary	Grigory Kriss  Soviet Union	Gianluigi Saccaro  Italy
team épée details	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Fenyvesi Zoltan Nemere Pál Schmitt Gyözö Kulcsar Pal Nagy	Soviet Union (URS) Grigory Kriss Iosif Vitebsky Aleksei Nikanchikov Yuri Smolyakov Viktor Modzalevsky	Poland (POL) Bogdan Andrzejewski Michał Butkiewicz Bogdan Gonsior Henryk Nielaba Kazimierz Barburski
individual foil details	Ion Drîmbă  Romania	Jenő Kamuti  Hungary	Daniel Revenu  France
team foil details	France (FRA) Daniel Revenu Gilles Berolatti Christian Noël Jean-Claude Magnan Jacques Dimont	Soviet Union (URS) German Sveshnikov Yuri Sharov Vasili Stankovich Viktor Putyatin Yuri Sisikin	Poland (POL) Witold Woyda Zbigniew Skrudlik Ryszard Parulski Egon Franke Adam Lisewski
individual sabre details	Jerzy Pawłowski  Poland	Mark Rakita  Soviet Union	Tibor Pézsa  Hungary
team sabre details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita Umar Mavlikhanov	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Pierluigi Chicca Rolando Rigoli	Hungary (HUN) Tamás Kovács János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Miklós Meszéna Tibor Pézsa

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Elena Belova  Soviet Union	Pilar Roldán  Mexico	Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő  Hungary
team foil details	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandra Zabelina Tatyana Samusenko Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Svetlana Tširkova	Hungary (HUN) Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Maria Jarmy Paula Marosi-Foldesi	Romania (ROU) Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Maria Vicol Olga Orban-Szabo Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	0	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	3	7
3	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
4	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	1	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Mexico (MEX)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

A total of 275 fencers (217 men and 58 women) from 34 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:

•  Argentina (10)
•  Australia (5)
•  Austria (5)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Brazil (4)
•  Canada (5)
•  Cuba (13)
•  East Germany (4)
•  Egypt (4)
•  France (20)
•  Great Britain (17)
•  Hungary (20)
•  Ireland (4)
•  Italy (19)
•  Japan (5)
•  Lebanon (3)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Mexico (14)
•  Netherlands Antilles (3)
•  Norway (2)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (20)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Romania (10)
•  Soviet Union (20)
•  Sweden (6)
•  Switzerland (5)
•  United States (20)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Venezuela (4)
•  Vietnam (1)
•  West Germany (20)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Fencing: 1968 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-12-23.

Sources

• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2006-12-22.