Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, ten fencing events were contested. Women's épée events made a debut at these Games.^[1][2]

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Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Aleksandr Beketov  Russia	Iván Trevejo  Cuba	Géza Imre  Hungary
team épée details	Italy (ITA) Sandro Cuomo Angelo Mazzoni Maurizio Randazzo	Russia (RUS) Aleksandr Beketov Pavel Kolobkov Valery Zakharevich	France (FRA) Jean-Michel Henry Robert Leroux Éric Srecki
Individual foil details	Alessandro Puccini  Italy	Lionel Plumenail  France	Franck Boidin  France
team foil details	Russia (RUS) Dmitriy Shevchenko Ilgar Mamedov Vladislav Pavlovich	Poland (POL) Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Ryszard Sobczak Jarosław Rodzewicz	Cuba (CUB) Elvis Gregory Rolando Leon Oscar García Perez
Individual sabre details	Stanislav Pozdnyakov  Russia	Sergey Sharikov  Russia	Damien Touya  France
team sabre details	Russia (RUS) Stanislav Pozdnyakov Grigoriy Kirienko Sergey Sharikov	Hungary (HUN) Csaba Köves József Navarrete Bence Szabó	Italy (ITA) Raffaello Caserta Luigi Tarantino Toni Terenzi

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Laura Flessel  France	Valérie Barlois  France	Gyöngyi Szalay  Hungary
team épée details	France (FRA) Laura Flessel Sophie Moressée-Pichot Valérie Barlois	Italy (ITA) Laura Chiesa Elisa Uga Margherita Zalaffi	Russia (RUS) Maria Mazina Yuliya Garayeva Karina Aznavourian
Individual foil details	Laura Badea  Romania	Valentina Vezzali  Italy	Giovanna Trillini  Italy
team foil details	Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella Giovanna Trillini Valentina Vezzali	Romania (ROU) Laura Badea Reka Szabo Roxana Scarlat	Germany (GER) Anja Fichtel Mauritz Sabine Bau Monika Weber-Koszto

Medal table

Russia finished atop of the fencing medal table at the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	4	2	1	7
2	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
3	France (FRA)	2	2	3	7
4	Romania (ROM)	1	1	0	2
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	2	3
6	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
8	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

A total of 224 fencers (136 men and 88 women) from 46 nations competed at the Atlanta Games:^[1]

•  Algeria (2)
•  Argentina (4)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Bulgaria (3)
•  Canada (7)
•  China (9)
•  Chile (1)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Cuba (7)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Estonia (6)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (15)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (15)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Greece (1)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Hungary (15)
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (16)
•  Japan (4)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Poland (11)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Romania (9)
•  Russia (15)
•  FR Yugoslavia (1)
•  South Korea (13)
•  Spain (11)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Switzerland (5)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (15)
•  Uzbekistan (1)
•  Venezuela (4)