Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

At the 1952 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy	Dario Mangiarotti Italy	Oswald Zappelli Switzerland
team épée	Italy (ITA) Roberto Battaglia Carlo Pavesi Franco Bertinetti Giuseppe Delfino Dario Mangiarotti Edoardo Mangiarotti	Sweden (SWE) Berndt-Otto Rehbinder Bengt Ljungquist Per Hjalmar Carleson Carl Forssell Sven Fahlman Lennart Magnusson	Switzerland (SUI) Otto Rüfenacht Paul Meister Oswald Zappelli Paul Barth Willy Fitting Mario Valota
individual foil	Christian d'Oriola France	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy	Manlio Di Rosa Italy
team foil	France (FRA) Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan Claude Netter Jacques Noël Adrien Rommel	Italy (ITA) Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Renzo Nostini	Hungary (HUN) Endre Palócz Tibor Berczelly Endre Tilli Aladár Gerevich Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Maszlay
individual sabre	Pál Kovács Hungary	Aladár Gerevich Hungary	Tibor Berczelly Hungary
team sabre	Hungary (HUN) Bertalan Papp László Rajcsányi Rudolf Kárpáti Tibor Berczelly Aladár Gerevich Pál Kovács	Italy (ITA) Giorgio Pellini Vincenzo Pinton Renzo Nostini Mauro Racca Gastone Darè Roberto Ferrari	France (FRA) Maurice Piot Jacques Lefèvre Bernard Morel Jean Laroyenne Jean Francois Tournon Jean Levavasseur

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil	Irene Camber Italy	Ilona Elek Hungary	Karen Lachmann Denmark

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	4	1	8
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	2	6
3	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
4	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1

A total of 286 fencers (249 men and 37 women) from 32 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:^[1]

1 2 "Fencing: 1952 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-09-13.

Events at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki)

Athletics Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball (demonstration) Modern pentathlon Pesäpallo (demonstration) Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling

Fencing at the Summer Olympics

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List of medalists men women List of venues

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