At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, 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] They were held between July 22 and July 31 at the fencing hall of the Sports Complex of the Central Sports Club of the Army (north-western part of Moscow).
| Individual épée | |||
| team épée | Philippe Riboud Patrick Picot Hubert Gardas Philippe Boisse Michel Salesse | Piotr Jabłkowski Andrzej Lis Leszek Swornowski Ludomir Chronowski Mariusz Strzałka | Ashot Karagian Boris Lukomsky Aleksander Abushackmetov Aleksander Mozhaev Vladimir Smirnov |
| Individual foil | |||
| team foil | Didier Flament Pascal Jolyot Bruno Boscherie Philippe Bonnin Frederic Pietruszka | Aleksander Romankov Vladimir Smirnov Sabirzhan Ruziev Ashot Karagian Vladimir Lapitsky | Adam Robak Bogusław Zych Lech Koziejowski Marian Sypniewski |
| Individual sabre | |||
| team sabre [2] | Mikhail Burtsev Viktor Krovopuskov Viktor Sidjak Vladimir Nazlymov [3] | Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Marco Romano Ferdinando Meglio Giovanni Scalzo | Imre Gedővári Rudolf Nébald Pál Gerevich Ferenc Hammang György Nébald |
| individual foil | ||||
| team foil | Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin Pascale Trinquet Isabelle Begard Veronique Brouquier Christine Muzio | Valentina Sidorova Nailia Giliazova Elena Belova Irina Ushakova Larisa Tsagaraeva | Ildikó Schwarczenberger Magda Maros Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Edit Kovács |
A total of 182 fencers (133 men and 49 women) from 20 nations competed at the Moscow Games:
