2004 Summer Olympics / Fencing

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Athens
Competition venue	Elliniko Olympic Complex
Nations	42
Athletes	222 (93 , 129 )
date	14-22 August 2004
decisions	10
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At the XXVIII. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , ten fencing competitions were held. The venue was the Elliniko Olympic Complex . The program included a women's saber competition for the first time (individual); in return, the women's foil team competition was canceled.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Italy	3	3	1	7th
2	France	3	1	2	6th
3	Hungary	1	2	-	3
4th	Russia	1	-	3	4th
5	United States	1	-	1	2
6th	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
7th	China	-	3	-	3
8th	Germany	-	1	1	2
9	Poland	-	-	1	1
Ukraine	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze Epee single Marcel Fischer Wang Lei Pavel Kolobkov Epee team Éric Boisse Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Hugues Obry Gábor Boczkó Géza Imre Iván Kovács Krisztián Kulcsár Jörg Fiedler Sven Schmid Daniel Strigel Foil single Brice Guyart Salvatore Sanzo Andrea Cassarà Foil team Andrea Cassarà Salvatore Sanzo Simone Vanni Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Ye Chong Renal Ganeev Yuri Moltschan Ruslan Nassibullin Vyacheslav Posdnyakov Saber single Aldo Montano Zsolt Nemcsik Wladyslaw Tretyak Saber crew Julien Pillet Damien Touya Gaël Touya Aldo Montano Giampiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino Alexei Dyachenko Alexei Jakimenko Stanislav Posdnyakov Sergei Sharikov

Women competitor gold silver bronze Epee single Tímea Nagy Laura Flessel-Colovic Maureen Nisima Epee team Karina Asnawurjan Oxana Yermakowa Tatiana Logunowa Anna Sivkowa Claudia Bokel Imke Duplitzer Britta Heidemann Sarah Daninthe Laura Flessel-Colovic Hajnalka Király-Picot Maureen Nisima Foil single Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Sylwia Gruchała Saber single Mariel Zagunis Tan Xue Sada Jacobson

Results men

Igor Turchin (Russia, left) versus Weston Kelsey (USA, right)

Epee single

space	country	athlete
1	SUI	Marcel Fischer
2	CHN	Wang Lei
3	RUS	Pavel Kolobkov
4th	FRA	Eric Boisse
5	FRA	Fabrice Jeannet
6th	VEN	Silvio Fernández
7th	United States	Soren Thompson
8th	GER	Daniel Strigel

Date: August 17, 2004
37 participants from 21 countries

Epee team

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Éric Boisse Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Hugues Obry
2	HUN	Gábor Boczkó Géza Imre Iván Kovács Krisztián Kulcsár
3	GER	Jörg Fiedler Sven Schmid Daniel Strigel
4th	RUS	Pawel Kolobkow Sergei Kochetkow Igor Turchin
5	UKR	Dmytro Karjuchenko Bohdan Nikischyn Vitaly Oscharow
6th	United States	Weston Kelsey Cody Mattern Joseph Viviani
7th	CHN	Tuo Tong Wang Lei Xie Yongjun
8th	EGY	Ibrahim Ibrahim Yasser Mahmoud Ahmed Nabil

Date: August 22, 2004
32 participants from 8 countries

Foil single

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Brice Guyart
2	ITA	Salvatore Sanzo
3	ITA	Andrea Cassarà
4th	RUS	Renal Ganeev
5	ITA	Simone Vanni
6th	GER	Peter Joppich
7th	CHN	Wu Hanxiong
8th	GBR	Richard Kruse

Date: August 16, 2004
36 participants from 20 countries

Foil team

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Andrea Cassarà Salvatore Sanzo Simone Vanni
2	CHN	Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Ye Chong
3	RUS	Renal Ganeev Yuri Moltschan Ruslan Nassibullin Vyacheslav Posdnyakov
4th	United States	Jebediah Dupree Dan waiter Jonathan Tiomkin
5	FRA	Loïc Attely Jean-Noël Ferrari Brice Guyart
6th	GER	Peter Joppich Jan-Simon Senft André Weßels
7th	COR	Choi Byung-chul Ha Chang-duk Kim Woon-sung
8th	EGY	Mustafa Nagaty Tamer Mohamed Tahoun Ali Tarek

Date: August 21, 2004
32 participants from 8 countries

Saber single

space	country	athlete
1	ITA	Aldo Montano
2	HUN	Zsolt Nemcsik
3	UKR	Wladyslaw Tretyak
4th	BLR	Dzmitryi Lapkes
5	UKR	Volodymyr Lukashenko
6th	RUS	Stanislav Posdnyakov
7th	ROME	Mihai Covaliu
8th	RUS	Sergei Sharikov

Date: August 14, 2004
39 participants from 21 countries

Saber crew

space	country	athlete
1	FRA	Julien Pillet Damien Touya Gaël Touya
2	ITA	Aldo Montano Giampiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino
3	RUS	Alexei Dyachenko Alexei Jakimenko Stanislav Posdnyakov Sergei Sharikov
4th	United States	Ivan Lee Jason Rogers Keeth Smart
5	HUN	Domonkos Ferjancsik Kende Fodor Zsolt Nemcsik
6th	UKR	Volodymyr Kalljuschnyj Volodymyr Lukashenko Oleh Shturbabin
7th	CHN	Chen Feng Huang Yaojiang Wang Jingzhi
8th	GRE	Marios Basmatzian Dimitris Kostakos Konstantin Manetas

Date: August 19, 2004
36 participants from 9 countries

Results women

Epee single

space	country	sportswoman
1	HUN	Tímea Nagy
2	FRA	Laura Flessel-Colovic
3	FRA	Maureen Nisima
4th	HUN	Ildikó Mincza-Nébald
5	GER	Imke Duplitzer
6th	CHN	Zhang Li
7th	COR	Kim Hee-jeong
8th	GRE	Jeanne Hristou

Date: August 15, 2004
39 participants from 21 countries

Epee team

space	country	Sportswomen
1	RUS	Karina Asnawurjan Oxana Yermakowa Tatiana Logunowa Anna Sivkowa
2	GER	Claudia Bokel Imke Duplitzer Britta Heidemann
3	FRA	Sarah Daninthe Laura Flessel-Colovic Hajnalka Király-Picot Maureen Nisima
4th	CAN	Monique Kavelaars Julie Leprohon Sherraine Mackay
5	HUN	Adrienn Hormay Ildikó Mincza-Nébald Hajnalka Toth
6th	CHN	Li Na Shen Weiwei Zhong Weiping
7th	COR	Go Jung-nam Kim Hee-jeong Lee Keum-nam
8th	GRE	Jeanne Hristou Dimitra Magkanoudaki Niki Sidiropoulou

Date: August 20, 2004
36 participants from 9 countries

Foil single

space	country	sportswoman
1	ITA	Valentina Vezzali
2	ITA	Giovanna Trillini
3	POLE	Sylwia Gruchała
4th	HUN	Aida Mohamed
5	ROME	Laura Gabriela Carlescu
6th	HUN	Gabriella Varga
7th	FRA	Adeline Wuillème
8th	COR	Nam Hyun-hee

Date: August 18, 2004
25 participants from 20 countries

Saber single

space	country	sportswoman
1	United States	Mariel Zagunis
2	CHN	Tan Xue
3	United States	Sada Jacobson
4th	ROME	Cătălina Gheorghițoaia
5	RUS	Elena Nechayeva
6th	FRA	Léonore Perrus
7th	AZE	Elena Shemaeva
8th	CHN	Zhang Ying

Date: August 17, 2004
24 participants from 19 countries

Web links

• Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 2004 Summer Games (PDF, 1.4 MB)