1996 Summer Olympics / Fencing

Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Atlanta
Competition venue	Georgia World Congress Center
Nations	46
Athletes	224 (88 , 136 )
date	20th - 25th July 1996
decisions	10
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At the XXVI. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , ten fencing competitions were held. The venue was the Georgia World Congress Center . Two new epee competitions for women (individual and team) were on the program.

Balance sheet

Georgia World Congress Center

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Russia	4th	2	1	7th
2	Italy	3	2	2	7th
3	France	2	2	3	7th
4th	Romania	1	1	-	2
5	Hungary	-	1	2	3
6th	Cuba	-	1	1	2
7th	Poland	-	1	-	1
8th	Germany	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Epee single Alexander Beketov Iván Trevejo Géza Imre Epee team Sandro Cuomo Angelo Mazzoni Maurizio Randazzo Alexander Beketow Pawel Kolobkow Valery Sakharevich Jean-Michel Henry Robert Leroux Éric Srecki Foil single Alessandro Puccini Lionel Plumenail Franck Boidin Foil team İlqar Məmmədov Vladislav Pavlovich Dmitri Shevchenko Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Jarosław Rodzewicz Oscar Pérez Elvis Gregory Rolando Tucker Saber single Stanislav Posdnyakov Sergei Sharikov Damien Touya Saber crew Grigori Kiriyenko Stanislav Posdnyakov Sergei Sharikov Csaba Köves József Navarrete Bence Szabó Raffaello Caserta Luigi Tarantino Tonhi Terenzi

Women competitor gold silver bronze Epee single Laura Flessel-Colovic Valérie Barlois Gyöngyi Szalay Epee team Valérie Barlois Laura Flessel-Colovic Sophie Moressée-Pichot Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi Karina Asnawurjan Julija Garajewa Marija Masina Foil single Laura Badea Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Foil team Francesca Bortolozzi Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali Laura Badea Reka Szabo Roxana Scarlat Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Monika Weber

Results men

Epee single

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Alexander Beketov
2	CUB	Iván Trevejo
3	HUN	Géza Imre
4th	HUN	Iván Kovács
5	ITA	Sandro Cuomo
6th	FRA	Jean-Michel Henry
7th	EST	Kaido Kaaberma
8th	GER	Marius Strzalka

Date: July 20, 1996
45 participants from 21 countries

Epee team

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Sandro Cuomo Angelo Mazzoni Maurizio Randazzo
2	RUS	Alexander Beketow Pawel Kolobkow Valery Sakharevich
3	FRA	Jean-Michel Henry Robert Leroux Éric Srecki
4th	GER	Elmar Borrmann Arnd Schmitt Marius Strzalka
5	EST	Kaido Kaaberma Andrus kayak Meelis Loit
6th	HUN	Géza Imre Iván Kovács Krisztián Kulcsár
7th	ESP	Oscar Fernández César González Raúl Maroto
8th	United States	Tamir Bloom Jim Carpenter Mike Marx

Date: July 23, 1996
33 participants from 11 countries

Foil single

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Alessandro Puccini
2	FRA	Lionel Plumenail
3	FRA	Franck Boidin
4th	GER	Wolfgang Wienand
5	CUB	Rolando Tucker
6th	UKR	Serhiy Holubyzkyj
7th	FRA	Philippe Omnes
8th	COR	Kim Young-ho

Date: July 22, 1996
45 participants from 19 countries

Foil team

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	İlqar Məmmədov Vladislav Pavlovich Dmitri Shevchenko
2	POLE	Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Jarosław Rodzewicz
3	CUB	Oscar García Elvis Gregory Rolando Tucker
4th	AUT	Marco Falchetto Michael Ludwig Joachim Wendt
5	HUN	Zsolt Érsek Róbert Kiss Márk Marsi
6th	GER	Alexander Koch Uwe Römer Wolfgang Wienand
7th	COR	Jeong Su-gi Kim Young-ho Kim Yong-guk
8th	ITA	Marco Arpino Stefano Cerioni Alessandro Puccini

Date: July 25, 1996
34 participants from 11 countries

Saber single

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Stanislav Posdnyakov
2	RUS	Sergei Sharikov
3	FRA	Damien Touya
4th	HUN	József Navarrete
5	GER	Felix Becker
6th	UKR	Wadym Hutzajt
7th	POLE	Rafał Sznajder
8th	GER	Steffen Wiesinger

Date: July 21, 1996
43 participants from 20 countries

Saber crew

space	country	athlete
1	RUS	Grigori Kiriyenko Stanislav Posdnyakov Sergei Sharikov
2	HUN	Csaba Köves József Navarrete Bence Szabó
3	ITA	Raffaello Caserta Luigi Tarantino Tonhi Terenzi
4th	POLE	Norbert Jaskot Janusz Olech Rafał Sznajder
5	FRA	Jean-Philippe Daurelle Franck Ducheix Damien Touya
6th	ESP	Antonio García Fernando Medina Raúl Peinador
7th	ROME	Mihai Covaliu Florin Lupeică Vilmoș Szabo
8th	GER	Felix Becker Frank Bleckmann Steffen Wiesinger

Date: July 24, 1996
33 participants from 11 countries

Results women

Epee single

space	country	sportswoman
1	FRA	Laura Flessel-Colovic
2	FRA	Valérie Barlois
3	HUN	Gyöngyi Szalay
4th	ITA	Margherita Zalaffi
5	HUN	Tímea Nagy
6th	HUN	Adrienn Hormay
7th	GER	Eva-Maria Ittner
8th	COR	Go Jeong-jeon

Date: July 21, 1996
48 participants from 24 countries

Epee team

space	country	Sportswomen
1	FRA	Valérie Barlois Laura Flessel-Colovic Sophie Moressée-Pichot
2	ITA	Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi
3	RUS	Karina Asnawurjan Julija Garajewa Marija Masina
4th	HUN	Adrienn Hormay Tímea Nagy Gyöngyi Szalay
5	EST	Oxana Yermakowa Heidi Rohi Maarika Võsu
6th	CUB	Tamara Esteri Mirayda García Milagros Palma
7th	GER	Claudia Bokel Eva-Maria Ittner Katja Nass
8th	United States	Elaine Cheris Leslie Marx Nhi Lan Le

Date: July 24, 1996
33 participants from 11 countries

Foil single

space	country	sportswoman
1	ROME	Laura Badea
2	ITA	Valentina Vezzali
3	ITA	Giovanna Trillini
4th	FRA	Laurence Modaine
5	GER	Monika Weber
6th	CHN	Xiao Aihua
7th	United States	Ann Marsh
8th	HUN	Aida Mohamed

Date: July 22, 1996
40 participants from 17 countries

Foil team

space	country	Sportswomen
1	ITA	Francesca Bortolozzi Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali
2	ROME	Laura Badea Reka Szabo Roxana Scarlat
3	GER	Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Monika Weber
4th	HUN	Gabriella Lantos Aida Mohamed Zsuzsanna Jánosi
5	FRA	Clothilde Magnan Laurence Modaine Adeline Wuillème
6th	RUS	Svetlana Boiko Olga Scharkowa Olga Welitschko
7th	CHN	Liang Jun Wang Huifeng Xiao Aihua
8th	POLE	Katarzyna Felusiak Anna Rybicka Barbara Wolnicka

Date: July 25, 1996
33 participants from 11 countries

Web links

Commons : Fencing at the 1996 Summer Games  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1996 Summer Games (PDF, 26.9 MB)