Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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At the 1988 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.[1]
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Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual foil |
 Anja Fichtel-Mauritz (FRG) |
Sabine Bau (FRG) |
Zita Funkenhauser (FRG) |
| team foil |
West Germany (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel-Mauritz Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber |
 Italy (ITA)Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi |
 Hungary (HUN)Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |
Medal table
West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events.[1]
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Germany (FRG) |
3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 |  France (FRA) |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 |  Soviet Union (URS) |
1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Hungary (HUN) |
1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 |  East Germany (GDR) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Poland (POL) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Participating nations
A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games:[1]
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