1956 Summer Olympics / Fencing
Fencing at the XVI. Summer Olympics |
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venue | Melbourne |
Competition venue | St Kilda Town Hall |
Nations | 23 |
Athletes | 165 (23 , 142 ) |
date | November 23 - December 5, 1956 |
decisions | 7th |
← Helsinki 1952 |
At the XVI. 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne fanen seven competitions in fencing instead. The venue was St Kilda Town Hall , the town hall of the St Kilda district .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country | total | |||
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1 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7th |
2 | Hungary | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
3 | France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
4th | Great Britain | 1 | - | - | 1 |
5 | Poland | - | 2 | - | 2 |
6th | Romania | - | 1 | - | 1 |
7th | Soviet Union | - | - | 2 | 2 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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Foil single | Gillian Sheen | Olga Orbán | Renée Garilhe |
Results men
Epee single
space | country | athlete | Victories |
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1 | ITA | Carlo Pavesi | 5 + 3 |
2 | ITA | Giuseppe Delfino | 5 + 2 |
3 | ITA | Edoardo Mangiarotti | 5 + 1 |
4th | United States | Richard Pew | 4th |
5 | HUN | Lajos Balthazár | 4th |
6th | FRA | René Queyroux | 3 |
7th | SWE | Per Carleson | 2 |
8th | FIN | Rolf Wiik | 0 |
Date: November 30, 1956
41 participants from 18 countries
The top three winners were tied after the final round, which is why there was a jump-off .
Epee team
space | country | athlete |
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1 | ITA |
Giorgio Anglesio , Franco Bertinetti , Giuseppe Delfino , Edoardo Mangiarotti , Carlo Pavesi , Alberto Pellegrino |
2 | HUN |
Lajos Balthazár , Barnabás Berzsenyi , József Marosi , Ambrus Nagy , Béla Rerrich , József Sákovics |
3 | FRA |
Daniel Dagallier , Yves Dreyfus , Armand Mouyal , Claude Nigon , René Queyroux |
4th | GBR |
Allan Jay , Bill Hoskyns , Michael Howard , René Paul , Raymond Paul |
5 | BEL |
Roger Eighth , Jacques Debeur , François Dehez , Ghislain Delaunois , Marcel Van Der Auwera |
URS |
Lev Saitschuk , Valentin Tschernikow , Arnold Tscharnuschewitsch , Juozas Ūdras , Walentin Vdowitschenko , Rewas Zirekidze |
Date: November 28, 1956
55 participants from 11 countries
Foil single
space | country | athlete | Victories |
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1 | FRA | Christian d'Oriola | 6th |
2 | ITA | Giancarlo Bergamini | 5 |
3 | ITA | Antonio Spallino | 5 |
4th | GBR | Allan Jay | 4th |
5 | HUN | József Gyuricza | 3 |
6th | FRA | Claude Netter | 3 |
7th | URS | Mark Midler | 2 |
8th | GBR | Raymond Paul | 0 |
Date: November 26, 1956
32 participants from 14 countries
Foil team
space | country | athlete |
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1 | ITA |
Giancarlo Bergamini , Luigi Carpaneda , Manlio Di Rosa , Vittorio Lucarelli , Edoardo Mangiarotti , Antonio Spallino |
2 | FRA |
Bernard Baudoux , Roger Closset , René Coicaud , Christian d'Oriola , Jacques Lataste , Claude Netter |
3 | HUN |
Mihály Fülöp , József Gyuricza , József Marosi , József Sákovics , Lajos Somodi , Endre Tilli |
4th | United States |
Albert Axelrod , Daniel Bukantz , Hal Goldsmith , Byron Krieger , Nate Lubell , Skip Shurtz |
5 | GBR |
Ralph Cooperman , Bill Hoskyns , Allan Jay , Raymond Paul , René Paul |
6th | URS |
Yuri Ivanov , Mark Midler , Yuri Ossipowi , Alexander Ovsyankin , Yuri Rudow , Viktor Schdanowitsch |
7th | BEL |
Ghislain Delaunois , Jacques Debeur , Marcel Van Der Auwera , André Verhalle |
8th | OUT |
Ray Buckingham , Tom Cross , Brian McCowage , David McKenzie , Michael Sichel , Rod Steele |
9 | COL |
Gabriel Blando , Emiliano Camargo , Emilio Echeverry , Pablo Uribe |
Date: November 23, 1956
50 participants from 9 countries
Saber single
space | country | athlete | Victories |
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1 | HUN | Rudolf Kárpáti | 6th |
2 | POLE | Jerzy Pawłowski | 5 |
3 | URS | Lev Kuznetsov | 4th |
4th | FRA | Jacques Lefèvre | 4th |
5 | HUN | Aladár Gerevich | 3 |
6th | POLE | Wojciech Zablocki | 2 |
7th | HUN | Pál Kovács | 2 |
8th | ITA | Luigi Narduzzi | 2 |
Date: December 5, 1956
35 participants from 17 countries
Saber crew
space | country | athlete |
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1 | HUN |
Aladár Gerevich , Jenő Hámori , Rudolf Kárpáti , Attila Keresztes , Pál Kovács , Dániel Magay |
2 | POLE |
Marek Kuszewski , Andrzej Piątkowski , Zygmunt Pawlas , Jerzy Pawłowski , Wojciech Zabłocki , Ryszard Zub |
3 | URS |
Leonid Bogdanow , Lev Kuznetsov , Jakow Rylski , Jewhen Tscherepowskyj , Dawid Tyschler |
4th | FRA |
Claude Gamot , Jacques Lefèvre , Bernard Morel , Jacques Roulot |
5 | ITA |
Gastone Darè , Giuseppe Comini , Roberto Ferrari , Luigi Narduzzi , Domenico Pace , Mario Ravagnan |
6th | United States |
Abram Cohen , Norman Cohn-Armitage , Rex Dyer , Allan Kwartler , Tibor Nyilas , George Worth |
7th | GBR |
Ralph Cooperman , Bill Hoskyns , Allan Jay , Raymond Paul , Olgierd Porebski |
8th | OUT |
Leslie Fadgyas , Leslie Kovacs , Alexander Martonffy , Emeric Santo , Sandor Szoke |
Date: December 3, 1956
43 participants from 8 countries
Results women
Foil single
space | country | sportswoman | Victories |
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1 | GBR | Gillian Sheen | 6 + 1 |
2 | ROME | Olga Orbán | 6th |
3 | FRA | Renée Garilhe | 5 |
4th | FRA | Janice Romary | 4th |
5 | FRA | Kate Bernheim | 3 |
6th | THE | Karen Lachmann | 2 |
7th | AUT | Ellen Müller Prize | 1 |
8th | ITA | Bruna Colombetti | 1 |
Date: November 29, 1956
23 participants from 11 countries
Web links
- Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1956 Summer Games (PDF, 32.5 MB)