Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

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. 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).

Medal summary

Johan Harmenberg during the victory ceremony. RIAN photo.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's épée	Johan Harmenberg Sweden (SWE)	Ernõ Kolczonay Hungary (HUN)	Philippe Riboud France (FRA)
Men's team épée	France (FRA) Philippe Riboud Patrick Picot Hubert Gardas Philippe Boisse Michel Salesse	Poland (POL) Piotr Jabłkowski Andrzej Lis Leszek Swornowski Ludomir Chronowski Mariusz Strzałka	Soviet Union (URS) Ashot Karagian Boris Lukomsky Aleksander Abushackmetov Aleksander Mozhaev Vladimir Smirnov
Men's foil	Vladimir Smirnov Soviet Union (URS)	Pascal Jolyot France (FRA)	Aleksander Romankov Soviet Union (URS)
Men's team foil	France (FRA) Didier Flament Pascal Jolyot Bruno Boscherie Philippe Bonin Frederic Pietruszka	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksander Romankov Vladimir Smirnov Sabirzhan Ruziev Ashot Karagian Vladimir Lapitsky	Poland (POL) Adam Robak Bogusław Zych Lech Koziejowski Marian Sypniewski
Men's sabre	Viktor Krovopuskov Soviet Union (URS)	Mikhail Burtsev Soviet Union (URS)	Imre Gedővári Hungary (HUN)
Men's team sabre	Soviet Union (URS) Mikhail Burtsev Viktor Krovopuskov Viktor Sidjak Vladimir Nazlymov	Italy (ITA) Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Marco Romano Ferdinando Meglio	Hungary (HUN) Imre Gedővári Rudolf Nébald Pál Gerevich Ferenc Hammang György Nébald
Women's foil	Pascale Trinquet France (FRA)	Magda Maros Hungary (HUN)	Barbara Wysoczańska Poland (POL)
Women's team foil	France (FRA) Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin Pascale Trinquet Isabelle Begard Veronique Brouquier Christine Muzio	Soviet Union (URS) Valentina Sidorova Nailia Giliazova Elena Novikova-Belova Irina Ushakova Larisa Tsagaraeva	Hungary (HUN) Ildikó Schwarczenberger Magda Maros Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Edit Kovács

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	4	1	1	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	2	8
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
4	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	3	5
5	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1

Participating nations

A total of 182 fencers (133 men and 49 women) from 20 nations competed at the Moscow Games:

• Algeria (1)
• Australia (3)
• Belgium (3)
• Bulgaria (4)
• Cuba (12)
• Czechoslovakia (7)
• Denmark (1)

• East Germany (14)
• Finland (5)
• France (16)
• Great Britain (11)
• Hungary (18)
• Italy (13)
• Kuwait (9)

• Lebanon (2)
• Poland (18)
• Romania (18)
• Soviet Union (17)
• Spain (4)
• Sweden (6)

External links

• Official Olympic Report