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Fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's foil

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Men's foil
at the Games of the III Olympiad
Ramón Fonst
VenueFrancis Gymnasium, Washington University in St. Louis
DateSeptember 7
Competitors9 from 3 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ramón Fonst
 Cuba
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Albertson Van Zo Post
 Cuba
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Charles Tatham
 Cuba
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Fencing at the
1904 Summer Olympics
Foilmen
Team foilmen
Épéemen
Sabremen
Singlestickmen

The men's foil was a fencing event held as part of the fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third time the event was held at the Olympics. The competition was held on September 7, 1904. Nine fencers from three nations competed. The medals were swept by "Cuban" fencers; only Fonst was actually Cuban, but the other two men (Albertson Van Zo Post and Charles Tatham) are marked as Cuban by the IOC despite being American.

Background

This was the third appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics except 1908 (when there was a foil display only rather than a medal event). None of the fencers from 1900 returned.[1]

Two of the three competing nations were making their debut in the men's foil: Cuba and Germany. Only the United States had previously competed, in 1900; the United States' two appearances matched France (1896 and 1900).

Competition format

The event used a two-round format (semifinals and a final). The semifinal consisted of two pools, one of five fencers and one of four fencers, with each pool playing a round-robin. The top two in each semifinal advanced to the final; these four played another round-robin. Standard foil rules were used, including that touches had to be made with the tip of the foil, the target area was limited to the torso, and priority determined the winner of double touches.

However, the number of touches made was not determinative of the winner of a bout. Instead, each bout was evaluated by judges. Each judge assigned up to 100 points to each fencer, with the fencer having the higher average score winning the bout.[1]

Schedule

Date Time Round
Wednesday, 7 September 1904 Semifinals
Final

Results

Semifinals

Each fencer in a group faced each other fencer in that group once. The top two fencers in each semifinal group moved on to the final.

Semifinal A

Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes
1 Ramón Fonst  Cuba 4 0 Q
2 Albertson Van Zo Post  Cuba[2] 3 1 Q
3 Charles Townsend  United States 2 2
4 Theodore Carstens  United States 1 3
5 William Grebe  United States 0 4

Semifinal B

Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses Notes
1 Gustav Casmir  Germany 3 0 Q
2 Charles Tatham  Cuba[3] 2 1 Q
3 Wilfred Holroyd  United States[4] 1 2
4 Arthur Fox  United States 0 3

Final

Fonst continued to defeat all comers, including Post a second time, to win the gold. Post's only two losses in the event came against Fonst, as he took silver. Tatham, who had lost to Casmir in the semifinal pool, defeated him the second time around to take third place.

Rank Fencer Nation Wins Losses
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ramón Fonst  Cuba 3 0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Albertson Van Zo Post  Cuba[2] 2 1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Charles Tatham  Cuba[3] 1 2
4 Gustav Casmir  Germany 0 3

Final classification

Rank Fencer Nation Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ramón Fonst  Cuba Final
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Albertson Van Zo Post  Cuba[2] Final
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Charles Tatham  Cuba[3] Final
4 Gustav Casmir  Germany Final
5 Charles Townsend  United States 3rd in semifinal pool
Wilfred Holroyd  United States[4] 3rd in semifinal pool
7 Theodore Carstens  United States 4th in semifinal pool
Arthur Fox  United States 4th in semifinal pool
9 William Grebe  United States 5th in semifinal pool

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Foil, Individual, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c The IOC results database shows Albertson Van Zo Post as Cuban despite the fact that he was an American.
  3. ^ a b c The IOC results database shows Charles Tatham as Cuban for individual events and American for the team event; he was an American.
  4. ^ a b The IOC results database shows Wilfred Holroyd as American; he was British.

Sources

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