At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.[1]
| individual épée | ||||
| team épée | Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti | Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazár | valign=top | Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal |
| individual foil | ||||
| team foil | Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti | Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste | Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics | |
| individual sabre | ||||
| team sabre | Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay | Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub | valign=top | Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov |
| individual foil |
A total of 165 fencers (142 men and 23 women) from 23 nations competed at the Melbourne Games: