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Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events, further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre. [ 1 ] Fencing is one of the few sports that have been featured in every modern Olympic Games , and for the first time female competitors competed individually using the sabre.
Fencing has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. There are three forms of Olympic fencing: Foil — a light thrusting weapon; the valid target is restricted to the torso; double touches are not allowed.
Germany (GER) Sven Schmid Jörg Fiedler Daniel Strigel: 2008 Beijing details France (FRA) Jérôme Jeannet Fabrice Jeannet Ulrich Robeiri Poland (POL) Robert Andrzejuk Tomasz Motyka Adam Wiercioch Radosław Zawrotniak Italy (ITA) Stefano Carozzo Diego Confalonieri Alfredo Rota Matteo Tagliariol: 2012 London: not included in the Olympic program
The Haus des Deutschen Sports (German: House of German sports), part of the larger Deutsches Sportforum, is a sporting venue constructed for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Located in Olympiapark Berlin to the northeast of the Olympic Stadium, it hosted the fencing events and the fencing part of the modern pentathlon event.
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eight events in fencing 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]
Jürgen Theuerkauff (8 September 1934 – 5 September 2022) was a German fencer. He represented the United Team of Germany in 1960 and 1964 and West Germany in 1968. He won a bronze medal in the team foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [1]
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Fencing Franz Rompza (born 12 February 1934) is a German fencer . He represented the United Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics and West Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics .