Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Helliniko Olympic Complex
Dates	14–22 August 2004

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events, further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre.^[1]

Fencing is one of the few sports that have been featured in every modern Olympic Games, and for the first time female competitors competed individually using the sabre. The Lexan window mask, showing the athletes' faces, was used for the first time at these Olympics.

Medal summary

Russian Igor Turchin and American Weston Kelsey duel in the second round of the Olympic men's individual épée event at the Hellinikon Fencing Hall on 17 August 2004

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Marcel Fischer  Switzerland	Wang Lei  China	Pavel Kolobkov  Russia
Team épée	France (FRA) Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Hugues Obry Érik Boisse	Hungary (HUN) Gábor Boczkó Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács Géza Imre	Germany (GER) Sven Schmid Jörg Fiedler Daniel Strigel
Individual foil	Brice Guyart  France	Salvatore Sanzo  Italy	Andrea Cassarà  Italy
Team foil	Italy (ITA) Andrea Cassarà Salvatore Sanzo Simone Vanni	China (CHN) Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Ye Chong	Russia (RUS) Renal Ganeev Youri Moltchan Rouslan Nassiboulline Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov
Individual sabre	Aldo Montano  Italy	Zsolt Nemcsik  Hungary	Vladislav Tretiak  Ukraine
Team sabre	France (FRA) Julien Pillet Damien Touya Gael Touya	Italy (ITA) Aldo Montano Gianpiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino	Russia (RUS) Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Dyachenko Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Yakimenko

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Tímea Nagy  Hungary	Laura Flessel-Colovic  France	Maureen Nisima  France
Team épée	Russia (RUS) Karina Aznavourian Oxana Ermakova Tatiana Logounova Anna Sivkova	Germany (GER) Claudia Bokel Imke Duplitzer Britta Heidemann	France (FRA) Sarah Daninthe Laura Flessel-Colovic Hajnalka Kiraly Picot Maureen Nisima
Individual foil	Valentina Vezzali  Italy	Giovanna Trillini  Italy	Sylwia Gruchała  Poland
Individual sabre	Mariel Zagunis  United States	Tan Xue  China	Sada Jacobson  United States

Medal table

Italy finished top of the fencing medal table at the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	3	1	7
2	France (FRA)	3	1	2	6
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	0	3
4	Russia (RUS)	1	0	3	4
5	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
7	China (CHN)	0	3	0	3
8	Germany (GER)	0	1	1	2
9	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

A total of 223 fencers (129 men and 94 women) from 42 nations competed at the Athens Games:^[1]

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report