Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 / Fencing

Fencing at the Olympic Intermediate Games
information
Attendees:	62 athletes
Date:	April 23rd - May 1st
Competition location:	Athens
Decisions:	8th

Olympic Intermediate Games 1906 (fencing medal table)
space	team				Total
01	France	3	1	1	5
02	German Empire	2	2	-	4th
03	Belgium	2	-	1	3
04th	Greece	1	2	1	4th
05	Netherlands	-	1	2	3
06th	Italy	-	1	1	2
07th	Great Britain	-	1	-	1
08th	Hungary	-	-	1	1

At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906 , 8 fencing competitions were held.

Men

Foil single

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	FRA	Georges Dillon-Cavanagh	k. A.
2	GER	Gustav Casmir	k. A.
3	FRA	Pierre d'Hugues	k. A.

The six best fencers from the preliminary round and the semi-final round reached the final round, where everyone fought against everyone else. The Italian Frederic Cesarano gave up during the finals. The victory that Gustav Casmir had won against him was revoked, which possibly cost Casmir the gold medal.

Epee single

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	FRA	Georges de la Falaise	k. A.
2	FRA	Georges Dillon-Cavanagh	k. A.
3	NED	Hendrik van Blijenburgh	k. A.

The 6 best fencers from the preliminary and semi-final rounds reached the final round, where everyone fought against everyone else.

Sword fencing master

The competitions in fencing

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	BEL	Cyrille Verbrugge	k. A.
2	ITA	Mario Gubiani	k. A.
3	GRE	Ioannis Raissis	k. A.

Only teachers teaching at fencing schools were admitted to the fencing master’s competition. Only 3 participants had registered for the epee competition.

Epee team

space	country	team
1	FRA	Georges Dillon-Cavanagh , Pierre d'Hugues , Georges de la Falaise , Cyril Mohr
2	GBR	Cosmo Duff Gordon , William Grenfell , Charles Newton Robinson , Edgar Seligman
3	BEL	Constant Cloquet , Edmond Crahay , Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu , Fernand de Montigny

Saber single (1 hit)

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	GRE	Ioannis Georgiadis	k. A.
2	GER	Gustav Casmir	k. A.
3	ITA	Federico Cesarano	k. A.

The 6 best fencers from the preliminary and semi-final rounds reached the final round, where everyone fought against everyone else.

Saber single (3 hits)

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	GER	Gustav Casmir	k. A.
2	NED	George van Rossem	k. A.
3	HUN	Péter Tóth	k. A.

From a preliminary round with 22 athletes, the 10 best fencers reached the final round, where everyone competed against everyone else.

Saber fencing master

space	country	athlete	Victories
1	BEL	Cyrille Verbrugge	k. A.
2	GRE	Ioannis Raissis	k. A.
3	-	not forgiven

Only teachers teaching at fencing schools were admitted to the fencing master’s competition. Only 2 participants had registered for the saber competition.

Saber crew

space	country	team
1	GER	Gustav Casmir , Jakob Erckrath de Bary , August Petri , Emil Schön
2	GRE	Ioannis Georgiadis , Triantafyllos Kordogiannis , Menelaos Sakorafos , Christos Zorbas
3	NED	James Melvill van Carnbée , Maurits van Löben Sels , Johannes Osten , George van Rossem

Out of four participating teams, only three were rated after Hungary gave up in the preliminary round.