title: Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
text: # Fencing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  
  At the 1992 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events 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 | Éric Srecki France | Pavel Kolobkov Unified Team ( Russia) | Jean-Michel Henry France |
  | team épée details | Germany (GER) Elmar Borrmann Robert Felisiak Arnd Schmitt Uwe Proske Wladimir Reznitschenko | Hungary (HUN) Iván Kovács Krisztián Kulcsár Ferenc Hegedűs Ernõ Kolczonay Gábor Totola | Unified Team (EUN) Pavel Kolobkov Andrey Shuvalov Sergei Kravchouk Sergei Kostarev Valery Zakharevich |
  | individual foil details | Philippe Omnes France | Sergei Golubitsky Unified Team ( Ukraine) | Elvis Gregory Cuba |
  | team foil details | Germany (GER) Udo Wagner Ulrich Schreck Thorsten Weidner Alexander Koch Ingo Weissenborn | Cuba (CUB) Elvis Gregory Guillermo Betancourt Scull Oscar García Perez Tulio Diaz Babier Hermenegildo Garcia Marturell | Poland (POL) Marian Sypniewski Piotr Kiełpikowski Adam Krzesiński Cezary Siess Ryszard Sobczak |
  | Individual sabre details | Bence Szabó Hungary | Marco Marin Italy | Jean-François Lamour France |
  | team sabre details | Unified Team (EUN) Grigory Kiriyenko Aleksandr Shirshov Heorhiy Pohosov Vadim Gutzeit Stanislav Pozdnyakov | Hungary (HUN) Bence Szabó Csaba Köves György Nébald Péter Abay Imre Bujdosó | France (FRA) Jean-François Lamour Jean-Phillippe Daurelle Franck Ducheix Hervé Grainger-Veyron Pierre Guichot |
  
  ### Women's events
  
  | Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Individual foil details | Giovanna Trillini Italy | Wang Huifeng China | Tatyana Sadovskaya Unified Team ( Russia) |
  | team foil details | Italy (ITA) Diana Bianchedi Francesca Bortolozzi Giovanna Trillini Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi | Germany (GER) Sabine Bau Zita Funkenhauser Annette Dobmeier Anja Fichtel-Mauritz Monika Weber-Koszto | Romania (ROU) Reka Szabo-Lazar Claudia Grigorescu Elisabeta Tufan Laura Badea Roxana Dumitrescu |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  Germany and Italy finished joint-top of the fencing medal table at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
  | 1 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
  | 3 | France (FRA) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
  | 4 | Unified Team (EUN) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
  | 5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
  | 6 | Cuba (CUB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 7 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 8 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | 8 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
  | Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  A total of 305 fencers (234 men and 71 women) from 42 nations competed at the Barcelona Games:
  
  * Argentina (5)
  * Australia (2)
  * Austria (5)
  * Brazil (4)
  * Canada (16)
  * China (15)
  * Colombia (2)
  * Costa Rica (1)
  * Cuba (5)
  * Czechoslovakia (5)
  * Estonia (2)
  * Egypt (1)
  * France (20)
  * Germany (20)
  * Great Britain (15)
  * Greece (1)
  * Honduras (1)
  * Hong Kong (3)
  * Hungary (20)
  * Indonesia (2)
  * Independent Olympic Participants (1)
  * Ireland (1)
  * Israel (1)
  * Italy (20)
  * Japan (6)
  * Kuwait (1)
  * Lebanon (2)
  * New Zealand (1)
  * Paraguay (2)
  * Philippines (1)
  * Poland (20)
  * Portugal (4)
  * Romania (15)
  * Saudi Arabia (1)
  * Singapore (2)
  * South Africa (5)
  * South Korea (15)
  * Spain (17)
  * Sweden (6)
  * Switzerland (3)
  * Unified Team (20)
  * United States (16)
  