Fencing
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 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]

Medal summary

Men's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
individual épée
 Giuseppe Delfino
 Italy		 Allan Jay
 Great Britain		 Bruno Khabarov
 Soviet Union
team épée
  Italy (ITA)
Giuseppe Delfino
Alberto Pellegrino
Carlo Pavesi
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Fiorenzo Marini
Gianluigi Saccaro		  Great Britain (GBR)
Allan Jay
Michael Howard
John Pelling
Henry Hoskyns
Raymond Harrison
Michael Alexander		  Soviet Union (URS)
Valentin Chernikov
Guram Kostava
Arnold Chernushevich
Bruno Khabarov
Aleksandr Pavlovsky
individual foil
 Viktor Zhdanovich
 Soviet Union		 Yury Sisikin
 Soviet Union		 Albert Axelrod
 United States
team foil
  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Zhdanovich
Mark Midler
Yuri Rudov
Yury Sisikin
German Sveshnikov		  Italy (ITA)
Alberto Pellegrino
Luigi Carpaneda
Mario Curletto
Aldo Aureggi
Edoardo Mangiarotti		  United Team of Germany (EUA)
Jürgen Theuerkauff
Tim Gerresheim
Eberhard Mehl
Jürgen Brecht
individual sabre
 Rudolf Kárpáti
 Hungary		 Zoltán Horváth
 Hungary		 Wladimiro Calarese
 Italy
team sabre
  Hungary (HUN)
Tamas Mendelenyi
Rudolf Kárpáti
Pál Kovács
Zoltán Horváth
Gabor Delneki
Aladár Gerevich		  Poland (POL)
Andrzej Piątkowski
Emil Ochyra
Wojciech Zabłocki
Jerzy Pawłowski
Ryszard Zub
Marian Kuszewski		  Italy (ITA)
Wladimiro Calarese
Giampaolo Calanchini
Pierluigi Chicca
Roberto Ferrari
Mario Ravagnan

Women's events

Games Gold Silver Bronze
individual foil
 Adelheid Schmid
 United Team of Germany		 Valentina Rastvorova
 Soviet Union		 Maria Vicol
 Romania
team foil
  Soviet Union (URS)
Valentina Prudskova
Aleksandra Zabelina
Lyudmila Shishova
Tatyana Petrenko
Galina Gorokhova
Valentina Rastvorova		  Hungary (HUN)
Györgyi Szekely-Marvalics
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Magdolna Nyari-Kovacs
Katalin Juhasz-Nagy
Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics		  Italy (ITA)
Bruna Colombetti
Velleda Cesari
Claudia Pasini
Irene Camber
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)3227
2 Hungary (HUN)2204
3 Italy (ITA)2136
4 United Team of Germany (EUA)1012
5 Great Britain (GBR)0202
6 Poland (POL)0101
7 Romania (ROU)0011
 United States (USA)0011
Totals (8 entries)88824

Participating nations

A total of 344 fencers (266 men and 78 women) from 42 nations competed at the Rome Games:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fencing: 1960 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
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