Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil, individual	Christian d'Oriola France (FRA)	Giancarlo Bergamini Italy (ITA)	Antonio Spallino Italy (ITA)
Foil, team	Italy (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti	France (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste	Hungary (HUN) Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics
Épée, individual	Carlo Pavesi Italy (ITA)	Giuseppe Delfino Italy (ITA)	Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy (ITA)
Épée, team	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti	Hungary (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazar	France (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
Sabre, individual	Rudolf Kárpáti Hungary (HUN)	Jerzy Pawłowski Poland (POL)	Lev Kuznetsov Soviet Union (URS)
Sabre, team	Hungary (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magai	Poland (POL) Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub	Soviet Union (URS) Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov

[edit] Women's event

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Foil	Gillian Mary Sheen Great Britain (GBR)	Olga Orban-Szabo Romania (ROU)	Renee Garilhe France (FRA)

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