Fencing at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad | |
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At the 1988 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events 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]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual foil |
Anja Fichtel West Germany |
Sabine Bau West Germany |
Zita Funkenhauser West Germany |
Team foil |
West Germany (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber |
Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi |
Hungary (HUN) Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |
West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events. [1]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
6 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (7 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games: [1]