Fencing at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Fencing events were contested at the 1959 Summer Universiade in Turin, Italy.

Medal overview

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Guy Barrabino (FRA)	Yury Sisikin (URS)	Viktor Zhdanovich (URS)
Team Foil	Soviet Union (URS) Yury Sisikin Iuri Osip'ovi Viktor Zhdanovich Yevgeny Ryumin	Hungary (HUN) Ferenc Czvikovszky Jenő Kamuti József Marosi Bertalan Szőcs	France (FRA) Pierre Rodocanachi Guy Barrabino Ceretti Vincent
Individual Épée	István Kausz (HUN)	Michel Steininger (SUI)	Göran Abrahamsson (SWE)
Team Épée	Italy (ITA) Guido Cipriani Alberto Pellegrino Gianluigi Saccaro Pietro Tassinari	Poland (POL) Wiesław Glos Bogdan Gonsior Włodzimierz Strzyżewski Jerzy Wojciechowski	Hungary (HUN) István Kausz József Marosi Pál Rabár Tibor Szûcs
Individual Sabre	Wladimiro Calarese (ITA)	Emil Ochyra (POL)	Jean-Ernest Ramez (FRA)
Team Sabre	Hungary (HUN) Attila Kovács Tamás Mendelényi Tibor Pézsa József Szerencsés	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Mario Ravagnan Guido Benvenuti Michele Reese	Poland (POL) Bronisław Borowski Ryszard Parulski Emil Ochyra Eugeniusz Kaźmierski

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Rosemarie Weiß (FRG)	Gudrun Vorbrich (FRG)	Monique Leroux (FRA)
Team Foil	France (FRA) Monique Leroux Florence Roussy Cuvelier Mireille Schamanech	West Germany (FRG) Gudrun Vorbrich Rosemarie Weiß Ursula Michels Dörner	Italy (ITA) Claudia Pasini Cristiana Bortolotti Leopolda Predaroli Vera Mantovani


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
1	Italy (ITA)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	2	0	3	5
4	West Germany (FRG)	1	2	0	3
5	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	1	3
6	Poland (POL)	0	2	1	3
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24