Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Games of the XIV Olympiad

At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée	Luigi Cantone  Italy	Oswald Zappelli  Switzerland	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy
team épée	France (FRA) Maurice Huet Michel Pécheux Marcel Desprets Edouard Artigas Henri Guerin Henri Lepage	Italy (ITA) Luigi Cantone Marc Antonio Mandruzzato Carlo Agostoni Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Dario Mangiarotti	Sweden (SWE) Frank Cervell Carl Forssell Bengt Ljungquist Sven Thofelt Per Hjalmar Carleson Arne Tollbom
individual foil	Jehan Buhan  France	Christian d'Oriola  France	Lajos Maszlay  Hungary
team foil	France (FRA) Adrien Rommel Christian d'Oriola Andre Bonin Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan René Bougnol	Italy (ITA) Saverio Ragno Renzo Nostini Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Giuliano Nostini	Belgium (BEL) André van de Werve de Vorsselaer Paul Louis Jean Valcke Raymond Bru Georges Camille De Bourgignon Henri Paternoster Edouard Yves
individual sabre	Aladár Gerevich  Hungary	Vincenzo Pinton  Italy	Pál Kovács  Hungary
team sabre	Hungary (HUN) László Rajcsányi Bertalan Papp Aladár Gerevich Tibor Berczelly Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács	Italy (ITA) Carlo Turcato Gastone Darè Vincenzo Pinton Mauro Racca Renzo Nostini Aldo Montano	United States (USA) Miguel Angel De Capriles Norman Cohn-Armitage George Worth Dean Victor Cetrulo James Hummitzsch Flynn Tibor Andrew Nyilas

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil	Ilona Elek  Hungary	Karen Lachmann  Denmark	Ellen Mueller  Austria

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	1	0	4
2	Hungary (HUN)	3	0	2	5
3	Italy (ITA)	1	4	1	6
4	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
6	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

A total of 294 fencers (255 men and 39 women) from 30 nations competed at the London Games:

•  Argentina (19)
•  Austria (7)
•  Belgium (18)
•  Brazil (7)
•  Canada (6)
•  Chile (3)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Cuba (6)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Denmark (15)
•  Egypt (9)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (21)
•  Great Britain (19)
•  Greece (6)
•  Hungary (18)
•  Ireland (5)
•  Italy (19)
•  Luxembourg (6)
•  Mexico (9)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  Norway (5)
•  Peru (3)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (6)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (19)
•  Turkey (6)
•  United States (20)
•  Uruguay (5)