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

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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil, Individual	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (FRA)	Henri Callot (FRA)	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis (GRE)
Masters foil	Leonidas Pyrgos (GRE)	Jean Maurice Perronet (FRA)	none
Sabre, Individual	Ioannis Georgiadis (GRE)	Tilemachos Karakalos (GRE)	Holger Nielsen (DEN)

Participating nations

File:Castaigne - Fencing before the king of Greece, 1896 Summer Olympics.jpg

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

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

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in fencing (men)
• List of Olympic medalists in fencing (women)

References

• (Digitally available at [1])
• (Excerpt available at [2])