Fencing at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
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At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée details	Carlo Pavesi  Italy	Giuseppe Delfino  Italy	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy
team épée details	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 Balthazár	France (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal
individual foil details	Christian d'Oriola  France	Giancarlo Bergamini  Italy	Antonio Spallino  Italy
team foil details	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
individual sabre details	Rudolf Kárpáti  Hungary	Jerzy Pawłowski  Poland	Lev Kuznetsov  Soviet Union
team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magay	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

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Gillian Sheen  Great Britain	Olga Orban  Romania	Renée Garilhe  France

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
5	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
6	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
7	Soviet Union (URS)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating nations

A total of 165 fencers (142 men and 23 women) from 23 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:^[1]