Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's foil

Men's foil at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Schermzaal
Dates	31 July–1 August 1928
Competitors	54 from 22 nations
Medalists
Lucien Gaudin  France Erwin Casmir  Germany Giulio Gaudini  Italy

The men's foil was one of seven fencing events on the Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics programme. It was the seventh appearance of the event. The competition was held from 31 July 1928 to 1 August 1928. 54 fencers from 22 nations competed.

Results

Source: Official results; De Wael

Round 1

Each pool was a round-robin. Bouts were to five touches. The top three fencers in each pool advanced to the semifinals.

Pool A

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Albert De Roocker	Belgium	4	Q
2	Zoltán Schenker	Hungary	4	Q
3	George Calnan	United States	3	Q
4	Frans Mosman	Netherlands	3
5	Jens Berthelsen	Denmark	1
6	Mahmoud Ahmed Abdin	Egypt	0

Pool B

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Ivan Osiier	Denmark	5	Q
2	Erwin Casmir	Germany	4	Q
3	Giulio Gaudini	Italy	3	Q
4	Johan Falkenberg	Norway	2
5	Gusztáv Kálniczky	Hungary	1
6	Fernando García	Spain	0

Pool C

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Lucien Gaudin	France	5	Q
2	Fritz Gazzera	Germany	3	Q
3	Joe Levis	United States	3	Q
4	Eugène Empeyta	Switzerland	2
5	Denis Pearce	Great Britain	1
6	Konstantinos Botasis	Greece	1

Pool D

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Ugo Pignotti	Italy	7	Q
2	Oscar Viñas	Argentina	5	Q
3	Pierre Pêcher	Belgium	5	Q
4	Paul Kunze	Netherlands	3
5	Sebastião Herédia	Portugal	3
6	Robert Montgomerie	Great Britain	3
7	John Albaret	Switzerland	1
8	Konstantinos Nikolopoulos	Greece	1

Pool E

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Oreste Puliti	Italy	6	Q
2	Saul Moyal	Egypt	4	Q
3	Nicolaas Nederpeld	Netherlands	4	Q
4	Thomas Wand-Tetley	Great Britain	3
5	Frithjof Lorentzen	Norway	2
6	Frédéric Fitting	Switzerland	1
7	Tomás Goyoaga	Chile	1

Pool F

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	György Rozgonyi	Hungary	5	Q
2	Hans Lion	Austria	4	Q
3	Bertil Uggla	Sweden	3	Q
4	Domingo García	Spain	2
5	Władysław Segda	Poland	1
6	Ðuro Freund	Yugoslavia	0

Pool G

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Philippe Cattiau	France	6	Q
2	Kurt Ettinger	Austria	5	Q
3	Raymond Bru	Belgium	4	Q
4	Kim Bærentzen	Denmark	3
5	Jacob Bergsland	Norway	2
6	Torvald Appelroth	Finland	1
7	Gheorghe Caranfil	Romania	0

Pool H

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Roger Ducret	France	7	Q
2	Dernell Every	United States	5	Q
3	Mihai Savu	Romania	4	Q
4	Ivar Tingdahl	Sweden	4
5	Richard Brünner	Austria	3
6	Joseph Misrahi	Egypt	3
7	Julius Thomson	Germany	2
8	Armando Alemán	Spain	0

Semifinals

Each pool was a round-robin. Bouts were to five touches. The top four fencers in each pool advanced to the final.

Semifinal A

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Erwin Casmir	Germany	6	Q
2	Ugo Pignotti	Italy	5	Q
3	Philippe Cattiau	France	4	Q
4	Joe Levis	United States	3	Q
5	Hans Lion	Austria	2
6	Zoltán Schenker	Hungary	1
7	Nicolaas Nederpeld	Netherlands	0
–	Albert De Roocker	Belgium	DNF

Semifinal B

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Oreste Puliti	Italy	7	Q
2	Roger Ducret	France	5	Q
3	György Rozgonyi	Hungary	5	Q
4	Bertil Uggla	Sweden	3	Q
5	Mihai Savu	Romania	3
6	Saul Moyal	Egypt	2
7	Pierre Pêcher	Belgium	2
8	Dernell Every	United States	1

Semifinal C

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Lucien Gaudin	France	7	Q
2	Giulio Gaudini	Italy	5	Q
3	Raymond Bru	Belgium	5	Q
4	Fritz Gazzera	Germany	4	Q
5	Ivan Osiier	Denmark	3
6	Kurt Ettinger	Austria	2
7	George Calnan	United States	1
8	Oscar Viñas	Argentina	1

Final

The final was a round-robin. Bouts were to five touches. The top three finishers all ended with nine wins, and the tie was broken with a barrage.

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins	Notes
1	Lucien Gaudin	France	9	B
1	Giulio Gaudini	Italy	9	B
1	Erwin Casmir	Germany	9	B
4	Oreste Puliti	Italy	8
5	Philippe Cattiau	France	7
6	Raymond Bru	Belgium	7
7	Ugo Pignotti	Italy	4
8	Fritz Gazzera	Germany	4
9	Roger Ducret	France	3
10	György Rozgonyi	Hungary	3
11	Joe Levis	United States	2
12	Bertil Uggla	Sweden	1

Barrage

The barrage was a round-robin among the three top finalists. Each of three had lost twice in the final round-robin, once to another of the three finalists and once to a fencer who did not place as well. Gaudin, who had lost to Casmir in the final, beat him in the barrage and notched his second head-to-head victory against Gaudini to win gold.

Rank	Fencer	Nation	Wins
	Lucien Gaudin	France	2
	Erwin Casmir	Germany	1
	Giulio Gaudini	Italy	0