Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four fencing events were contested.

Fencing at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue	Franco-British Exhibition fencing grounds
Dates	July 17–24
No. of events	4
Competitors	131 from 14 nations
← 1904 1912 →

The 1908 Games were the first to lack a foil competition. Foil fencing, "not being in the opinion of the organisers a form of sport which is improved by competition,^[1]" was held only as a display. The 1908 Olympics did introduce team sabre and épée competitions. As in the 1904 edition, the London Games held no events for masters; all fencing was done by amateurs.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Épée, Individual details	Gaston Alibert  France	Alexandre Lippmann  France	Eugène Olivier  France
Épée, Team details	France (FRA) Gaston Alibert Herman Georges Berger Charles Collignon Eugène Olivier	Great Britain (GBR) Charles Leaf Daniell Cecil Haig Martin Holt Robert Montgomerie	Belgium (BEL) Paul Anspach Desire Beaurain Ferdinand Feyerick François Rom
Sabre, Individual details	Jenő Fuchs  Hungary	Béla Zulawszky  Hungary	Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf  Bohemia
Sabre, Team details	Hungary (HUN) Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner Dezső Földes	Italy (ITA) Marcello Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli Sante Ceccherini	Bohemia (BOH) Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tuček Otakar Lada

Participating nations

131 fencers from 14 nations competed.^[2]

•  Austria (1)
•  Belgium (18)
•  Bohemia (7)
•  Canada (1)
•  Denmark (8)
•  France (22)
•  Germany (10)
•  Great Britain (23)
•  Hungary (8)
•  Italy (11)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  Norway (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Sweden (7)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
5	Bohemia (BOH)	0	0	2	2
6	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		4	4	4	12

References

1. Official Report, p. 127
2. "Fencing: 1908 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-12-24.

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