Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Games of the I Olympiad
Venue	Zappeion
Dates	7–9 April 1896
Competitors	15 from 4 nations
	1900»

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, there were 3 fencing events. They were fought at the Zappeion. They were prepared by the Sub-Committee for Fencing. There were events for foil, masters foil, and sabre. There was going to be an event for épée. However The épée event for men was cancelled. You would win an event if you touch people with a sword 3 times. There were fencing events on 7 April and 9 April 1896. There were 15 athletes from 4 nations. 8 of the fencers from 3 nations each won 1 medal.

Medal summary

At the time, winners were given a silver medal. Nobody else was given a medal. These medals are the medals given after the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte  France	Henri Callot  France	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis  Greece
			Athanasios Vouros  Greece
Masters foil	Leonidas Pyrgos  Greece	Joanni Perronet  France	none
Sabre	Ioannis Georgiadis  Greece	Telemachos Karakalos  Greece	Holger Nielsen  Denmark

Participating nations

Fencing before the king of Greece, 1896, by André Castaigne

There were 15 fencers from 4 nations.

•  Austria (1)
•  Denmark (1)
•  France (4)
•  Greece (9)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Greece	2	1	2	5
2	France	1	2	0	3
3	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

Sub-Committee for Fencing

• Ioannis Phokianos, president
• Georgios Streit, secretary
• Ioannis Yenissarlis
• Loukas Belos
• Nikolaos Politis
• Chas. Waldstein
• Dimitrios Aiginitis
• Dimitrios Sekkeris
• Spyridon Koumoundouros
• Konstantinos Manos
• Spyridon Antonopoulos

Other websites

• Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1])
• Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at [2])
• Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.