Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Fencing

Fencing at the 1896 Olympic Games
information
venue	Athens
Competition venue	Zappeion
Nations	4th
Athletes	15 (15 )
date	7th-9th April 1896
decisions	3
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At the 1st Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , three fencing competitions took place. The venue was the Zappeion .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country			Third	total
1	Greece	2	1	1	4th
2	France	1	2	-	3
3	Denmark	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor silver bronze Third foil  Eugène-Henri Gravelotte  Henri Callot  Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis saber  Ioannis Georgiadis  Tilemachos caracalus  Holger Louis Nielsen Foil for fencing masters  Leonidas Pyrgos  Joanni Perronet not forgiven

Results

foil

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Fencing - Foil (men)

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte
2	FRA	Henri Callot
3	GRE	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis
4th	GRE	Athanasios Vouros
5	FRA	Henri Delaborde
	GRE	Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos
7th	GRE	Georgios Balakakis
	GRE	Ioannis Poulos

Scene in the final fight

Date: April 7th, 1896
8 participants from 2 countries

Foil for fencing masters

→ Main article : Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Fencing - Foil for fencing masters (men)

space	country	athlete
1	GRE	Leonidas Pyrgos
2	FRA	Joanni Perronet

Date: April 7, 1896

This competition was the only one for professional athletes. Pyrgos won the only fight against Perronet with 3-1 goals.

saber

→ Main article : 1896 Summer Olympics / Fencing - sabers (men)

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	GRE	Ioannis Georgiadis	4-0
2	GRE	Tilemachos caracalus	3: 1
3	THE	Holger Louis Nielsen	2: 2
4th	AUT	Adolf Schmal	1: 3
5	GRE	Georgios Iatridis	0: 4

Date: April 9, 1896
5 participants from 3 countries

Web links

• Fencing at the Olympic Games 1896 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )