1956 Summer Olympics / Fencing
| Fencing at the XVI. Summer Olympics |
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| venue |
 Melbourne
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| Competition venue | St Kilda Town Hall |
| Nations | 23 |
| Athletes | 165 (23  , 142  )
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| 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 |
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| 1 |
 Italy
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3 | 2 | 2 | 7th |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Hungary
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2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
| 3 |
 France
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1 | 1 | 2 | 4th |
| 4th |
 Great Britain
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1 | - | - | 1 |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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- | 2 | - | 2 |
| 6th |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
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- | 1 | - | 1 |
| 7th |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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- | - | 2 | 2 |
Medalist
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| competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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| Foil single |
Gillian Sheen
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Olga Orbán
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Renée Garilhe
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Results men
Epee single
| space | country | athlete | Victories |
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| 1 |
ITA
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Carlo Pavesi | 5 + 3 |
| 2 |
ITA
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Giuseppe Delfino | 5 + 2 |
| 3 |
ITA
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Edoardo Mangiarotti | 5 + 1 |
| 4th |
 United States
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Richard Pew | 4th |
| 5 |
HUN
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Lajos Balthazár | 4th |
| 6th |
FRA
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René Queyroux | 3 |
| 7th |
 SWE
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Per Carleson | 2 |
| 8th |
 FIN
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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
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Giorgio Anglesio , Franco Bertinetti , Giuseppe Delfino , Edoardo Mangiarotti , Carlo Pavesi , Alberto Pellegrino |
| 2 |
HUN
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Lajos Balthazár , Barnabás Berzsenyi , József Marosi , Ambrus Nagy , Béla Rerrich , József Sákovics |
| 3 |
FRA
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Daniel Dagallier , Yves Dreyfus , Armand Mouyal , Claude Nigon , René Queyroux |
| 4th |
GBR
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Allan Jay , Bill Hoskyns , Michael Howard , René Paul , Raymond Paul |
| 5 |
 BEL
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Roger Eighth , Jacques Debeur , François Dehez , Ghislain Delaunois , Marcel Van Der Auwera |
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URS
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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
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Christian d'Oriola | 6th |
| 2 |
ITA
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Giancarlo Bergamini | 5 |
| 3 |
ITA
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Antonio Spallino | 5 |
| 4th |
GBR
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Allan Jay | 4th |
| 5 |
HUN
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József Gyuricza | 3 |
| 6th |
FRA
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Claude Netter | 3 |
| 7th |
URS
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Mark Midler | 2 |
| 8th |
GBR
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Raymond Paul | 0 |
Date: November 26, 1956
32 participants from 14 countries
Foil team
| space | country | athlete |
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| 1 |
ITA
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Giancarlo Bergamini , Luigi Carpaneda , Manlio Di Rosa , Vittorio Lucarelli , Edoardo Mangiarotti , Antonio Spallino |
| 2 |
FRA
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Bernard Baudoux , Roger Closset , René Coicaud , Christian d'Oriola , Jacques Lataste , Claude Netter |
| 3 |
HUN
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Mihály Fülöp , József Gyuricza , József Marosi , József Sákovics , Lajos Somodi , Endre Tilli |
| 4th |
United States
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Albert Axelrod , Daniel Bukantz , Hal Goldsmith , Byron Krieger , Nate Lubell , Skip Shurtz |
| 5 |
GBR
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Ralph Cooperman , Bill Hoskyns , Allan Jay , Raymond Paul , René Paul |
| 6th |
URS
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Yuri Ivanov , Mark Midler , Yuri Ossipowi , Alexander Ovsyankin , Yuri Rudow , Viktor Schdanowitsch |
| 7th |
BEL
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Ghislain Delaunois , Jacques Debeur , Marcel Van Der Auwera , André Verhalle |
| 8th |
OUT
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Ray Buckingham , Tom Cross , Brian McCowage , David McKenzie , Michael Sichel , Rod Steele |
| 9 |
 COL
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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
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Rudolf Kárpáti | 6th |
| 2 |
POLE
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Jerzy Pawłowski | 5 |
| 3 |
URS
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Lev Kuznetsov | 4th |
| 4th |
FRA
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Jacques Lefèvre | 4th |
| 5 |
HUN
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Aladár Gerevich | 3 |
| 6th |
POLE
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Wojciech Zablocki | 2 |
| 7th |
HUN
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Pál Kovács | 2 |
| 8th |
ITA
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Luigi Narduzzi | 2 |
Date: December 5, 1956
35 participants from 17 countries
Saber crew
| space | country | athlete |
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| 1 |
HUN
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Aladár Gerevich , Jenő Hámori , Rudolf Kárpáti , Attila Keresztes , Pál Kovács , Dániel Magay |
| 2 |
POLE
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Marek Kuszewski , Andrzej Piątkowski , Zygmunt Pawlas , Jerzy Pawłowski , Wojciech Zabłocki , Ryszard Zub |
| 3 |
URS
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Leonid Bogdanow , Lev Kuznetsov , Jakow Rylski , Jewhen Tscherepowskyj , Dawid Tyschler |
| 4th |
FRA
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Claude Gamot , Jacques Lefèvre , Bernard Morel , Jacques Roulot |
| 5 |
ITA
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Gastone Darè , Giuseppe Comini , Roberto Ferrari , Luigi Narduzzi , Domenico Pace , Mario Ravagnan |
| 6th |
United States
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Abram Cohen , Norman Cohn-Armitage , Rex Dyer , Allan Kwartler , Tibor Nyilas , George Worth |
| 7th |
GBR
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Ralph Cooperman , Bill Hoskyns , Allan Jay , Raymond Paul , Olgierd Porebski |
| 8th |
OUT
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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
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Gillian Sheen | 6 + 1 |
| 2 |
ROME
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Olga Orbán | 6th |
| 3 |
FRA
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Renée Garilhe | 5 |
| 4th |
FRA
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Janice Romary | 4th |
| 5 |
FRA
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Kate Bernheim | 3 |
| 6th |
 THE
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Karen Lachmann | 2 |
| 7th |
 AUT
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Ellen Müller Prize | 1 |
| 8th |
ITA
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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)
Sports at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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