Fencing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

The Argentinian foil team at the 1928 Summer Olympics. They won the bronze medal.

At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

Medal summary 1
Participating nations 2
Medal table 3
References 4

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual épée	Lucien Gaudin France (FRA)	Georges Buchard France (FRA)	George Calnan United States (USA)
Men's team épée	Italy (ITA) Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici Carlo Agostoni Renzo Minoli Franco Riccardi	France (FRA) Géo Buchard Gaston Amson Émile Cornic Bernard Schmetz René Barbier	Portugal (POR) Paulo Leal Mário de Noronha Jorge de Paiva Frederico Paredes João Sassetti Henrique da Silveira
Men's individual foil	Lucien Gaudin France (FRA)	Erwin Casmir Germany (GER)	Giulio Gaudini Italy (ITA)
Men's team foil	Italy (ITA) Ugo Pignotti Giulio Gaudini Giorgio Pessina Gioachino Guaragna Oreste Puliti Giorgio Chiavacci	France (FRA) Philippe Cattiau Roger Ducret André Labattut Lucien Gaudin Raymond Flacher André Gaboriaud	Argentina (ARG) Roberto Larraz Raul Anganuzzi Luis Lucchetti Hector Lucchetti Carmelo Camet
Men's individual sabre	Odön Tersztyánszky Hungary (HUN)	Attila Petschauer Hungary (HUN)	Bino Bini Italy (ITA)
Men's team sabre	Hungary (HUN) Ödön von Tersztyánszky János Garay Attila Petschauer József Rády Sándor Gombos Gyula Glykais	Italy (ITA) Bino Bini Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi Renato Anselmi Emilio Salafia Gustavo Marzi	Poland (POL) Adam Papée Tadeusz Friedrich Kazimierz Laskowski Władysław Segda Aleksander Małecki Jerzy Zabielski
Women's individual foil	Helene Mayer Germany (GER)	Muriel Freeman Great Britain (GBR)	Olga Oelkers Germany (GER)

Participating nations

A total of 259 fencers (232 men, 27 women) from 27 nations competed at the Amsterdam Games:^[1]

Argentina (9)
Austria (6)
Belgium (21)
Bulgaria (2)
Chile (6)
Czechoslovakia (7)
Denmark (10)
Egypt (8)
Finland (2)
France (20)
Germany (13)
Great Britain (19)
Greece (5)
Hungary (17)
Italy (18)
Mexico (2)
Netherlands (20)
Norway (5)
Poland (6)
Portugal (7)
Romania (8)
Spain (9)
Sweden (8)
Switzerland (9)
Turkey (4)
United States (16)
Yugoslavia (2)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	2	3	0	5
2	Italy (ITA)	2	1	2	5
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	0	3
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	1	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
6	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1

References

^ ^a ^b "Fencing: 1928 Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-04-22.

Events at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam

Athletics Boxing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Korfball (demonstration) Lacrosse (demonstration) Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Swimming Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Art competitions (unofficial)

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