Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
# Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.

## Medal summary

### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Individual épée details | Csaba Fenyvesi Hungary | Jacques Ladegaillerie France | Győző Kulcsár Hungary |
| team épée details | Hungary (HUN) Sándor Erdős Csaba Fenyvesi Győző Kulcsár Pál Schmitt István Osztrics | Switzerland (SUI) Guy Evequoz Daniel Giger Christian Kauter Peter Lötscher François Suchanecki | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Modzolevsky Sergei Paramonov Igor Valetov Georgi Zažitski Grigori Kriss |
| Individual foil details | Witold Woyda Poland | Jenő Kamuti Hungary | Christian Noël France |
| team foil details | Poland (POL) Marek Dąbrowski Jerzy Kaczmarek Lech Koziejowski Witold Woyda Arkadiusz Godel | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Denisov Anatoli Kotetsev Leonid Romanov Vasili Stankovich Victor Putyatin | France (FRA) Jean-Claude Magnan Christian Noël Daniel Revenu Bernard Talvard Gilles Berolatti |
| Individual sabre details | Viktor Sidyak Soviet Union | Péter Marót Hungary | Vladimir Nazlymov Soviet Union |
| team sabre details | Italy (ITA) Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Mario Tullio Montano Rolando Rigoli Cesare Salvadori | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Bashenov Vladimir Nazlymov Viktor Sidyak Eduard Vinokurov Mark Rakita | Hungary (HUN) Pál Gerevich Tamás Kovács Péter Marót Tibor Pézsa Péter Bakonyi |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Individual foil details | Antonella Ragno-Lonzi Italy | Ildikó Bóbis Hungary | Galina Gorokhova Soviet Union |
| team foil details | Soviet Union (URS) Elena Belova Galina Gorokhova Tatyana Samusenko Aleksandra Zabelina Svetlana Tširkova | Hungary (HUN) Ildikó Bóbis Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Ildikó Schwarczenberger Mária Gulácsi-Szolnoki Ildikó Matuscsák-Rónay | Romania (ROU) Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl Olga Orban-Szabo |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

## Participating nations

A total of 298 fencers (233 men and 65 women) from 37 nations competed at the Munich Games:

* Argentina (5)
* Australia (4)
* Austria (13)
* Belgium (1)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Canada (6)
* Cuba (15)
* Czechoslovakia (2)
* Denmark (6)
* East Germany (5)
* Finland (1)
* France (19)
* Great Britain (19)
* Greece (3)
* Hong Kong (2)
* Hungary (19)
* Iran (2)
* Ireland (1)
* Israel (2)
* Italy (19)
* Japan (5)
* Lebanon (4)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Mexico (6)
* Monaco (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* Norway (5)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (20)
* Puerto Rico (2)
* Romania (19)
* Soviet Union (20)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (12)
* Turkey (4)
* United States (19)
* West Germany (19)
