Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Fencing
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Fencing; at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
	← 1920 1928 →

At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. A women's event, the individual foil, was held for the first time.

Scoring controversy

After the games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.

Abbazia

near the Hungarian border with heavy sabers. The duel was terminated after only two minutes of combat time when Santelli must have landed a tierce of quarte in the side of Contronei's forehead.

A further duel resulted when Gyorgy Kovacs, a Hungarian judge at the Games also involved in the causes of the earlier duel, fought one of the Italian team, Oreste Puliti, four months after the Games over allegations made by Kovacs and other judges.^[4]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Charles Delporte Belgium	Roger Ducret France	Nils Hellsten Sweden
Team épée details	Lionel Liottel Alexandre Lippmann Georges Tainturier	Belgium (BEL) Paul Anspach Joseph De Craecker Charles Delporte Fernand de Montigny Ernest Gevers Léon Tom	Italy (ITA) Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giovanni Canova Vincenzo Cuccia Virgilio Mantegazza Oreste Moricca
Individual foil details	Roger Ducret France	Philippe Cattiau France	Maurice Van Damme Belgium
Team foil details	Joseph Peroteaux	Marcel Berre Albert De Roocker	Ödön Tersztyanszky István Lichteneckert
Individual sabre details	Sándor Pósta Hungary	Roger Ducret France	János Garay Hungary
Team sabre details	Italy (ITA) Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi	Zoltán Schenker László Széchy Ödön Tersztyánszky Jenő Uhlyárik	Henri Jacob Wynoldy-Daniels

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Ellen Osiier Denmark	Gladys Davis Great Britain	Grete Heckscher Denmark

Participating nations

A total of 240 fencers from 23 nations competed at the Paris Games:^[5]

Argentina (13) (men:13 women:0)
Austria (5) (men:5 women:0)
Belgium (19) (men:19 women:0)
Chile (1) (men:1 women:0)
Cuba (6) (men:6 women:0)
Czechoslovakia (7) (men:7 women:0)
Denmark (11) (men:7 women:4)
Egypt (3) (men:3 women:0)
France (24) (men:20 women:4)
Great Britain (20) (men:16 women:4)
Greece (6) (men:6 women:0)
Hungary (10) (men:9 women:1)
Italy (19) (men:19 women:0)
Netherlands (17) (men:14 women:3)
Norway (4) (men:4 women:0)
Poland (5) (men:4 women:1)
Portugal (10) (men:10 women:0)
Spain (13) (men:13 women:0)
Sweden (9) (men:6 women:3)
Switzerland (10) (men:7 women:3)
Turkey (1) (men:1 women:0)
United States (21) (men:19 women:2)
Uruguay (6) (men:6 women:0)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	3	0	6
2	Belgium (BEL)	1	2	1	4
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	2	4
4	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	1	2
4	Italy (ITA)	1	0	1	2
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
7	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		7	7	7	21

References

^ "SPORTS - Fencing". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
^ "Notes for Men of Iron". www.koryu.com. Koryu.com. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
^ "De Wael's Full Olympians". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2009-08-25.

[1] "SPORTS - Fencing". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-08-22.

[2] "Notes for Men of Iron". www.koryu.com. Koryu.com. Retrieved 2008-08-22.

[3] "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.

[4] "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.

[DeWael-5] "De Wael's Full Olympians". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2009-08-25.

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