Fencing at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
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At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 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.^[1]

Medal summary

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée details	Giuseppe Delfino  Italy	Allan Jay  Great Britain	Bruno Khabarov  Soviet Union
team épée details	Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Alberto Pellegrino Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Gianluigi Saccaro	Great Britain (GBR) Allan Jay Michael Howard John Pelling Henry Hoskyns Raymond Harrison Michael Alexander	Soviet Union (URS) Valentin Chernikov Guram Kostava Arnold Chernushevich Bruno Khabarov Aleksandr Pavlovsky
individual foil details	Viktor Zhdanovich  Soviet Union	Yury Sisikin  Soviet Union	Albert Axelrod  United States
team foil details	Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Zhdanovich Mark Midler Yuri Rudov Yury Sisikin German Sveshnikov	Italy (ITA) Alberto Pellegrino Luigi Carpaneda Mario Curletto Aldo Aureggi Edoardo Mangiarotti	United Team of Germany (EUA) Jürgen Theuerkauff Tim Gerresheim Eberhard Mehl Jürgen Brecht
individual sabre details	Rudolf Kárpáti  Hungary	Zoltán Horváth  Hungary	Wladimiro Calarese  Italy
team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Tamas Mendelenyi Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács Zoltán Horváth Gabor Delneki Aladár Gerevich	Poland (POL) Andrzej Piątkowski Emil Ochyra Wojciech Zabłocki Jerzy Pawłowski Ryszard Zub Marian Kuszewski	Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Giampaolo Calanchini Pierluigi Chicca Roberto Ferrari Mario Ravagnan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Adelheid Schmid  United Team of Germany	Valentina Rastvorova  Soviet Union	Maria Vicol  Romania
team foil details	Soviet Union (URS) Valentina Prudskova Aleksandra Zabelina Lyudmila Shishova Tatyana Petrenko Galina Gorokhova Valentina Rastvorova	Hungary (HUN) Györgyi Szekely-Marvalics Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Magdolna Nyari-Kovacs Katalin Juhasz-Nagy Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics	Italy (ITA) Bruna Colombetti Velleda Cesari Claudia Pasini Irene Camber Antonella Ragno-Lonzi

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	0	4
3	Italy (ITA)	2	1	3	6
4	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	0	1	2
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	2	0	2
6	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
7	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating nations

A total of 344 fencers (266 men and 78 women) from 42 nations competed at the Rome Games:^[1]