fencing
Fencing is a group of three related combat sports. The three disciplines in modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also ''saber''); winning points are made through the weapon's contact with an opponent. A fourth discipline, s ...
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fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
Medal summary Men's events
Women's events
Medal table
Participating nations
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programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 5 August 1948 to 6 August 1948. 113 fencers from 21 nations competed.
The competition format continued the pool play round-robin from prior years. Each of the four fencers from one team would face each of the four from the other, for a total of 16 bouts per match. Bouts were to three touches. The team that won more bouts won the match, with competition potentially stopping when one team reached 9 points out of the possible 16 (this did not always occur and matches sometimes continued). If the bouts were 8–8, touches received was used to determine the winning team. (Because double-loss bouts were possible, these victory conditions were adjusted where necessary.) Pool matches unnecessary to the result were not played.Official Report, p. 360.
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Vito Simonetti
Vito Simonetti de Mare (born 26 March 1903, date of death unknown) was an Argentine fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
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Antonio Villamil
Antonio Wenceslao Villamil Ramognino (born 8 October 1904, date of death unknown) was an Argentine fencer. He competed at the 1928, 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics
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Raúl Saucedo
Raúl Saucedo (12 September 1904 – 21 February 1966) was an Argentine fencer. He competed at the 1932, 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics
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Floro Díaz
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Jorge Balza
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Raymond Stasse
Raymond Stasse (30 April 1913 – 9 July 1987) was a Belgian Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics
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Léopold Hauben
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Robert Desjarlais
Robert Desjarlais (26 August 1907 – 17 July 1987) was a Canadian fencer. He competed in the three team events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Alf Horn
Alf Horn (6 January 1913 – 5 April 1991) was a Canadian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed in five events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Roland Asselin
Roland George Arthur Asselin (May 18, 1917 – December 7, 2003) was a Canadian fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952
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Georges Pouliot
Georges Pouliot (February 6, 1923 – May 8, 2019) was a Canadian fencer. He competed in five events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Armando Barrientos
Armando Barrientos Schweyer (24 March 1906 – 2 October 1998) is a Cuban fencer. He competed in the individual foil and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympia ...
Mogens Lüchow
Mogens Lüchow (13 May 1918 – 20 March 1989) was a Danish fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommar ...
Jakob Lyng
Jakob Lyng (1 April 1907, Søndbjerg – 27 May 1995) was a Danish fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as ...
Salah Dessouki
Salah Asfar Shishtawai J. Dessouki (22 October 1922 – 17 August 2011) was an Egyptian fencer. He won bronze medals in three fencing disciplines across four editions of the World Championships and competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olym ...
Mahmoud Younes
Mahmoud Khattab Younes (5 March 1915 – 27 June 2001) was an Egyptian épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He competed at the Mediterranean Games in 1951
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Erkki Kerttula
Erkki Kerttula (5 November 1909 – 4 November 1989) was a Finnish fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
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Ilmari Vartia
Ilmari Vartia (25 August 1914 – 25 May 1951) was a Finnish fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Kauko Jalkanen
Kauko Jalkanen (8 December 1918 – 3 September 2007) was a Finnish épée, foil and sabre fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
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Terry Beddard
Terence Elliott Beddard (30 October 1901 – 21 August 1966) was a British fencer. He competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1939, he won the épée title at the British Fencing Championships
The British Fencing Championships a ...
Archibald Craig
Archibald Craig (24 March 1887 – 30 December 1960) was a British fencer. He competed at the 1924 and 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an interna ...
Ioannis Karamazakis
Ioannis Karamazakis ( el, Ιωάννης Καραμαζάκης; died 1978) was a Greek fencer. He competed in six events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Béla Rerrich
Béla Rerrich (26 November 1917 – 24 June 2005) was a Hungarian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
During the Melbourne Olympics the Hungarian revolution happened, and Rerri ...
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Béla Mikla
Béla Mikla (born 1921, date of death 2013in Turin, Italy). He was a Hungarian fencing, fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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Edoardo Mangiarotti
Edoardo Mangiarotti (; 7 April 1919 – 25 May 2012) was an Italian fencer. He won a total of 39 Olympic titles and World championships, more than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His Olympic medals include one individual go ...
Fiorenzo Marini
Fiorenzo Marini (14 March 1914 – 25 January 1991) was an Italian fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics and a gold in the same event at the 1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, ...
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Jean-Fernand Leischen
Jean-Fernand Leischen (21 August 1919 – 20 April 2017) was a Luxembourgian fencer who competed in three Summer Olympic Games, competing in the men's individual and team épée events at each one. His best was result was fourth at the team ...
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Paul Anen
Paul Anen (3 February 1918 – 29 May 1978) was a Luxembourgian épée fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
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Émile Gretsch
Émile Gretsch (12 August 1908 – 17 July 2004) was a Luxembourgian épée and foil fencer. He competed at the 1948, 1952
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Antonio Haro
Antonio Haro (26 October 1910 – 22 September 2002) was a Mexican épée and sabre fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games.
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Alfred Eriksen
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José de Castro
José Augusto Soares Ribeiro de Castro ( Valhelhas, 7 April 1868 – 31 July 1929; , was a Portuguese lawyer, journalist and politician. He graduated in law at the University of Coimbra, and was a lawyer in Lisbon and Guarda. A member of freem ...
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Emílio Lino
Emílio Lino (8 June 1916 – 3 March 1958) was a Portuguese fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Álvaro Pinto
Álvaro Pinto (4 April 1907 – 1956) was a Portuguese épée fencing, fencer. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
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Per Carleson
Senior Colonel Per Hjalmar Ludvig Carleson (11 July 1917 – 8 June 2004) was a Swedish officer and épée fencer. Carleson was one of the founders of the Swedish Coastal Rangers.
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Frank Cervell
Colonel Frank Rutger Cervell (22 February 1907 – 3 September 1970) was an officer in the Swedish Air Force and a fencer. He won bronze medals in the team épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics and 1937 World Championships, as well as a ...
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Carl Forssell
Carl Forssell (25 October 1917 – 28 November 2005) was a Swedish fencer. Competing in the team épée he won a bronze medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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Bengt Ljungquist
Bengt Helge Ljungquist (20 September 1912 – 15 July 1979) was a Swedish fencer, equestrian and military officer.
Early life
Ljungquist was born on 20 September 1912 in Umeå, Sweden, the son of Major Helge Ljungquist and his wife Edith Palan ...
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Arne Tollbom
Arne Tollbom (20 March 1911 – 16 November 1971) was a Swedish fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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Robert Lips
Robert Lips (21 August 1912 – 28 February 1975), was a Swiss cartoonist. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon character ''Globi'' for
Globus. He was also a fencer and competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1948 Sum ...
Oswald Zappelli
Oswald Zappelli (27 October 1913 – 3 April 1968) was a Swiss fencer. He won a silver medal in the individual épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics and bronze medals in the individual and team épée events at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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Otto Rüfenacht
Otto Rüfenacht (27 October 1919 – 1 November 1982) was a Swiss fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée event at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952) ...