Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, four fencing events were contested.

The 1908 Games were the first to lack a foil competition. Foil fencing, "not being in the opinion of the organisers a form of sport which is improved by competition^[1]," was held only as a display. The 1908 Olympics did introduce team sabre and épée competitions. As in the 1904 edition, the London Games held no events for masters; all fencing was done by amateurs.

[edit] Medal table

Position	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	2	1	1	4
2	Hungary	2	1	0	3
3	Great Britain	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
5	Bohemia	0	0	2	2
6	Belgium	0	0	1	1
—	Austria	0	0	0	0
	Canada	0	0	0	0
	Denmark	0	0	0	0
	Germany	0	0	0	0
	Netherlands	0	0	0	0
	Norway	0	0	0	0
	South Africa	0	0	0	0
	Sweden	0	0	0	0

[edit] Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's épée	Gaston Alibert France	Alexandre Lippmann France	Eugène Olivier France
Men's sabre	Jenő Fuchs Hungary	Béla Zulavszky Hungary	Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bohemia
Men's team épée	France Gaston Alibert Henri-Georges Berger Charles Collignon Eugène Olivier	Great Britain Charles Leaf Daniell Cecil Haig Martin Holt Robert Montgomerie	Belgium Paul Anspach Desire Beaurain Ferdinand Feyerick François Rom
Men's team sabre	Hungary Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner	Italy Marcello Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli	Bohemia Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedrich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tucek

Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Épée	men
Sabre	men
Team épée	men
Team sabre	men

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