Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Fencing
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Fencing; at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
	← 1952 1960 →

At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

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Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée details	Carlo Pavesi Italy	Giuseppe Delfino Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy
team épée details	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Hungary (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár	France (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
individual foil details	Christian d'Oriola France	Giancarlo Bergamini Italy	Antonio Spallino Italy
team foil details	Italy (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	France (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Hungary (HUN) Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics
individual sabre details	Rudolf Kárpáti Hungary	Jerzy Pawłowski Poland	Lev Kuznetsov Soviet Union
team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	Poland (POL) Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub	Soviet Union (URS) Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

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