Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics

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At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested.

After the Olympic Games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.^[1] Aldolfo Contronei, either a 45-year old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper ^[2] or the captain of the Italian foil team ^[3] depending on sources, fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year old son of Italo Santelli who coached the Hungarian Olympic team. Giorgio Santelli had invoked the Code Duello in order to fight in the place of his 60-year old father. The duel was fought in the town of Abazzia near the Hungarian border with heavy sabers. The duel was terminated after only two minutes of combat time when Santelli must have landed a tierce of quarte in the side of Contronei's forehead.

A further duel resulted when Kovacs, a Hungarian judge at the Games also involved in the causes of the earlier duel, fought one of the Italian team, Oreste Puliti, four months after the Games over allegations made by Kovacs and other judges.^[4]

[edit] Medal Summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's épée	Charles Delporte Belgium (BEL)	Roger Ducret France (FRA)	Nils Hellsten Sweden (SWE)
Men's team épée	France (FRA) Lucien Gaudin Georges Buchard Roger Ducret André Labattut Lionel Liottel Alexandre Lippmann Georges Tainturier	Belgium (BEL) Paul Anspach Joseph De Craecker Charles Delporte Orphile Fernand De Montigny Ernest Gevers Léon Tom	Italy (ITA) Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giovanni Canova Vincenzo Cuccia V. Montegazza Oreste Moricca
Men's foil	Roger Ducret France (FRA)	Philippe Cattiau France (FRA)	Maurice E. Van Damme Belgium (BEL)
Men's team foil	France (FRA) Lucien Gaudin Philippe Cattiau Jacques Coutrot Roger Ducret Henri Jobier André Labattut Guy De Luget Josef Peroteaux	Belgium (BEL) Désiré Beurain Charles Crahay Orphile Fernand De Montigny Maurice E. Van Damme Marcel L. Berre Albert De Roocker	Hungary (HUN) Laszlo Berti Sandor Posta Zoltan Schenker Ödön Tersztyanszky Istvan Lichteneckert
Men's sabre	Sandor Posta Hungary (HUN)	Roger Ducret France (FRA)	Janos Garay Hungary (HUN)
Men's team sabre	Italy (ITA) Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi	Hungary (HUN) Laszlo Berti Janos Garay Sandor Posta Jozsef Rady Zoltan Schenker Laszlo Szechy Ödön Tersztyanszky Jenö Uhlyarik	Netherlands (NED) Adrianus De Jong Jetze Doorman Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen Jan Van Der Wiel Maarten Hendrik Van Dulm Henri Jacob Wynoldy-Daniels
Women's foil	Ellen Osiier Denmark (DEN)	Gladis Davis Great Britain (GBR)	Grete Heckscher Denmark (DEN)

[edit] References

1. ^ "SPORTS - Fencing". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=FE. Retrieved on 2008-08-22. 
2. ^ "Notes for Men of Iron". www.koryu.com. Koryu.com. http://www.koryu.com/library/cambergernotes1.html#n61. Retrieved on 2008-08-22. 
3. ^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A14354192?s_id=7. Retrieved on 2008-08-22. 
4. ^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A14354192?s_id=7&s_split=2. Retrieved on 2008-08-22. 

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