Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics explained

Event:	Fencing
Games:	1968 Summer
Prev:	1964
Next:	1972

At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 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

Individual épée
team épée	Csaba Fenyvesi Zoltan Nemere Pál Schmitt Gyözö Kulcsar Pal Nagy	Grigory Kriss Iosif Vitebsky Aleksei Nikanchikov Yuri Smolyakov Viktor Modzalevsky	Bogdan Andrzejewski Michał Butkiewicz Bogdan Gonsior Henryk Nielaba Kazimierz Barburski
individual foil
team foil	Daniel Revenu Gilles Berolatti Christian Noël Jean-Claude Magnan Jacques Dimont	German Sveshnikov Yuri Sharov Vasili Stankovich Viktor Putyatin Yuri Sisikin	Witold Woyda Zbigniew Skrudlik Ryszard Parulski Egon Franke Adam Lisewski
individual sabre
team sabre	Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita Umar Mavlikhanov	Wladimiro Calarese Michele Maffei Cesare Salvadori Pierluigi Chicca Rolando Rigoli	Tamás Kovács János Kalmár Péter Bakonyi Miklós Meszéna Tibor Pézsa

Women's events

individual foil
team foil	Aleksandra Zabelina Tatyana Samusenko Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Svetlana Tširkova	Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Maria Jarmy Paula Marosi-Foldesi	Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Maria Vicol Olga Orban-Szabo Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu

Participating nations

A total of 275 fencers (217 men and 58 women) from 34 nations competed at the Mexico City Games:

Sources

• Web site: Olympic Medal Winners . . 2006-12-22 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fencing: 1968 Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417042918/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1968/FEN/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2010-12-23 . sports-reference.com.