Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
At the 1988 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.[1]
Medal summary[]
Men's events[]
Women's events[]
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual foil |
Anja Fichtel West Germany |
Sabine Bau West Germany |
Zita Funkenhauser West Germany |
Team foil |
West Germany (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber |
Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi |
Hungary (HUN) Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |
Medal table[]
West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events.[1]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
4 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
6 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Totals (7 nations) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
Participating nations[]
A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games:[1]
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References[]
- ^ a b c "Fencing: 1988 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
External links[]
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