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	Wins	Qual.
1	Albert De Roocker (BEL)	4	Q
2	Zoltán Schenker (HUN)	4	Q
3	George Calnan (USA)	3	Q
4	Frans Mosman (NED)	3
5	Jens Berthelsen (DEN)	1
6	Mahmoud Ahmed Abdin (EGY)	0

Pool B
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Ivan Osiier (DEN)	5	Q
2	Erwin Casmir (GER)	4	Q
3	Giulio Gaudini (ITA)	3	Q
4	Johan Falkenberg (NOR)	2
5	Gusztáv Kálniczky (HUN)	1
6	Fernando García (ESP)	0

Pool C
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Lucien Gaudin (FRA)	5	Q
2	Fritz Gazzera (GER)	3	Q
3	Joe Levis (USA)	3	Q
4	Eugène Empeyta (SUI)	2
5	Denis Pearce (GBR)	1
6	Konstantinos Botasis (GRE)	1

Pool D
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Ugo Pignotti (ITA)	7	Q
2	Oscar Viñas (ARG)	5	Q
3	Pierre Pêcher (BEL)	5	Q
4	Paul Kunze (NED)	3
5	Sebastião Herédia (POR)	3
6	Robert Montgomerie (GBR)	3
7	John Albaret (SUI)	1
8	Konstantinos Nikolopoulos (GRE)	1

Pool E
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Oreste Puliti (ITA)	6	Q
2	Saul Moyal (EGY)	4	Q
3	Nicolaas Nederpeld (NED)	4	Q
4	Thomas Wand-Tetley (GBR)	3
5	Frithjof Lorentzen (NOR)	2
6	Frédéric Fitting (SUI)	1
7	Tomás Goyoaga (CHI)	1

Pool F
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	György Rozgonyi (HUN)	5	Q
2	Hans Lion (AUT)	4	Q
3	Bertil Uggla (SWE)	3	Q
4	Domingo García (ESP)	2
5	Władysław Segda (POL)	1
6	Ðuro Freund (YUG)	0

Pool G
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Philippe Cattiau (FRA)	6	Q
2	Kurt Ettinger (AUT)	5	Q
3	Raymond Bru (BEL)	4	Q
4	Kim Bærentzen (DEN)	3
5	Jacob Bergsland (NOR)	2
6	Torvald Appelroth (FIN)	1
7	Gheorghe Caranfil (ROU)	0

Pool H
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Roger Ducret (FRA)	7	Q
2	Dernell Every (USA)	5	Q
3	Mihai Savu (ROU)	4	Q
4	Ivar Tingdahl (SWE)	4
5	Richard Brünner (AUT)	3
6	Joseph Misrahi (EGY)	3
7	Julius Thomson (GER)	2
8	Armando Alemán (ESP)	0

Semifinals

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

Pool A
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Erwin Casmir (GER)	6	Q
2	Ugo Pignotti (ITA)	5	Q
3	Philippe Cattiau (FRA)	4	Q
4	Joe Levis (USA)	3	Q
5	Hans Lion (AUT)	2
6	Zoltán Schenker (HUN)	1
7	Nicolaas Nederpeld (NED)	0
8	Albert De Roocker (BEL)	DNF

Pool B
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Oreste Puliti (ITA)	7	Q
2	Roger Ducret (FRA)	5	Q
3	György Rozgonyi (HUN)	5	Q
4	Bertil Uggla (SWE)	3	Q
5	Mihai Savu (ROU)	3
6	Saul Moyal (EGY)	2
7	Pierre Pêcher (BEL)	2
8	Dernell Every (USA)	1

Pool C
Rank	Fencer	Wins	Qual.
1	Lucien Gaudin (FRA)	7	Q
2	Giulio Gaudini (ITA)	5	Q
3	Raymond Bru (BEL)	5	Q
4	Fritz Gazzera (GER)	4	Q
5	Ivan Osiier (DEN)	3
6	Kurt Ettinger (AUT)	2
7	George Calnan (USA)	1
8	Oscar Viñas (ARG)	1

Final

Each pool 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	Wins
T1	Lucien Gaudin (FRA)	9
T1	Giulio Gaudini (ITA)	9
T1	Erwin Casmir (GER)	9
4	Oreste Puliti (ITA)	8
5	Philippe Cattiau (FRA)	7
6	Raymond Bru (BEL)	7
7	Ugo Pignotti (ITA)	4
8	Fritz Gazzera (GER)	4
9	Roger Ducret (FRA)	3
10	György Rozgonyi (HUN)	3
11	Joe Levis (USA)	2
12	Bertil Uggla (SWE)	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	Wins
	Lucien Gaudin (FRA)	2
	Giulio Gaudini (ITA)	1
	Erwin Casmir (GER)	0