Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics
# Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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," 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.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Épée, Individual details | Gaston Alibert France | Alexandre Lippmann France | Eugène Olivier France |
| Épée, Team details | France (FRA) Gaston Alibert Herman Georges Berger Charles Collignon Eugène Olivier | Great Britain (GBR) Charles Leaf Daniell Cecil Haig Martin Holt Robert Montgomerie | Belgium (BEL) Paul Anspach Desire Beaurain Ferdinand Feyerick François Rom |
| Sabre, Individual details | Jenő Fuchs Hungary | Béla Zulawszky Hungary | Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bohemia |
| Sabre, Team details | Hungary (HUN) Jenő Fuchs Oszkár Gerde Péter Tóth Lajos Werkner Dezső Földes | Italy (ITA) Marcello Bertinetti Riccardo Nowak Abelardo Olivier Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli Sante Ceccherini | Bohemia (BOH) Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský Vilém Goppold von Lobsdorf Bedřich Schejbal Jaroslav Šourek-Tuček Otakar Lada |

## Participating nations

131 fencers from 14 nations competed.

* Austria (1)
* Belgium (18)
* Bohemia (7)
* Canada (1)
* Denmark (8)
* France (22)
* Germany (10)
* Great Britain (23)
* Hungary (8)
* Italy (11)
* Netherlands (13)
* Norway (1)
* South Africa (1)
* Sweden (7)

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Bohemia (BOH) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | Totals (6 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
