Fencing at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.^[1]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Csaba Fenyvesi  Hungary	Jacques Ladegaillerie  France	Győző Kulcsár  Hungary
team épée details	Hungary (HUN) Sándor Erdős Csaba Fenyvesi Győző Kulcsár Pál Schmitt István Osztrics	Switzerland (SUI) Guy Evequoz Daniel Giger Christian Kauter Peter Lötscher François Suchanecki	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Modzolevsky Sergei Paramonov Igor Valetov Georgi Zažitski Grigori Kriss
Individual foil details	Witold Woyda  Poland	Jenő Kamuti  Hungary	Christian Noël  France
team foil details	Poland (POL) Marek Dąbrowski Jerzy Kaczmarek Lech Koziejowski Witold Woyda Arkadiusz Godel	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Denisov Anatoli Kotetsev Leonid Romanov Vasili Stankovich Victor Putyatin	France (FRA) Jean-Claude Magnan Christian Noël Daniel Revenu Bernard Talvard Gilles Berolatti
Individual sabre details	Viktor Sidyak  Soviet Union	Péter Marót  Hungary	Vladimir Nazlymov  Soviet Union
team sabre details	Italy (ITA) Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Mario Tullio Montano Rolando Rigoli Cesare Salvadori	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Bashenov Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita	Hungary (HUN) Pál Gerevich Tamás Kovács Péter Marót Tibor Pézsa Péter Bakonyi

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Antonella Ragno-Lonzi  Italy	Ildikó Bóbis  Hungary	Galina Gorokhova  Soviet Union
team foil details	Soviet Union (URS) Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Tatyana Samusenko Aleksandra Zabelina Svetlana Tširkova	Hungary (HUN) Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Ildikó Schwarczenberger Mária Gulácsi-Szolnoki Ildikó Matuscsák-Rónay	Romania (ROU) Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Olga Orban-Szabo

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	4	2	8
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	3	7
3	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
	Poland (POL)	2	0	0	2
5	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
6	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
7	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

A total of 298 fencers (233 men and 65 women) from 37 nations competed at the Munich Games:^[1]

• David Dushman

• Official Olympic Report