Fencing at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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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

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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

References

Sources

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

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