Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée	Luigi Cantone Italy	Oswald Zappelli Switzerland	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy
team épée	France (FRA) Maurice Huet Michel Pécheux Marcel Desprets Edouard Artigas Henri Guerin Henri Lepage	Italy (ITA) Luigi Cantone Marc Antonio Mandruzzato Carlo Agostoni Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Dario Mangiarotti	Sweden (SWE) Frank Cervell Carl Forssell Bengt Ljungquist Sven Thofelt Per Hjalmar Carleson Arne Tollbom
individual foil	Jehan Buhan France	Christian d'Oriola France	Lajos Maszlay Hungary
team foil	France (FRA) Adrien Rommel Christian d'Oriola Andre Bonin Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan René Bougnol	Italy (ITA) Saverio Ragno Renzo Nostini Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Giuliano Nostini	Belgium (BEL) André van de Werve de Vorsselaer Paul Louis Jean Valcke Raymond Bru Georges Camille De Bourgignon Henri Paternoster Edouard Yves
individual sabre	Aladár Gerevich Hungary	Vincenzo Pinton Italy	Pál Kovács Hungary
team sabre	Hungary (HUN) László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács	Italy (ITA) Carlo Turcato Gastone Darè Vincenzo Pinton Mauro Racca Renzo Nostini Aldo Montano	United States (USA) Miguel Angel De Capriles Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Dean Victor Cetrulo James Hummitzsch Flynn Tibor Andrew Nyilas

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil	Ilona Elek Hungary	Karen Lachmann Denmark	Ellen Mueller Austria


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	1	0	4
2	Hungary (HUN)	3	0	2	5
3	Italy (ITA)	1	4	1	6
4	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
4	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		7	7	7	21

A total of 294 fencers (255 men and 39 women) from 30 nations competed at the London Games:[1]

"Fencing: 1948 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-06-08.

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