The fencing competition in the 1977 Summer Universiade was held in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Sabirzhan Ruziyev (URS)	Klaus Haertter (GDR)	Aleksandr Romankov (URS)
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS)	Poland (POL)	Italy (ITA)
Individual épée	Philippe Riboud (FRA)	Boris Lukomsky (URS)	François Suchanecki (SUI)
Team épée	Romania (ROU)	France (FRA)	Soviet Union (URS)
Individual sabre	Cornel Marin (ROU)	Angelo Arcidiacono (ITA)	Dan Irimiciuc (ROU)
Team sabre	Romania (ROU)	Hungary (HUN)	Soviet Union (URS)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil	Katarina Raczová (TCH)	Cornelia Hanisch (FRG)	Ildikó Schwarczenberger (HUN)
Team foil	Soviet Union (URS)	Romania (ROU)	France (FRA)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	3	7
2	Romania (ROU)	3	1	1	5
3	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	0	1
5	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	0	1
10	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		8	8	8	24

• Universiade fencing medalists on HickokSports (Men's sabre individual result is incorrect. Men's épée team result is missing.)
• [1] Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine - a document from Romanian Fencing Federation about Cornel Marin and Marin Mustață
• https://fencing.ophardt.online/en/widget/event/6393 (all events)
  • https://fencing.ophardt.online/en/search/results-mastercompetition/541 (men's sabre individual result)
  • https://fencing.ophardt.online/en/search/results-mastercompetition/546 (men's sabre team result)
  • https://fencing.ophardt.online/en/search/results-mastercompetition/545 (men's épée team result)
• https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/28/archives/world-university-games.html (men's épée team result)