Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics
At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. A women's event, the individual foil, was held for the first time.
After the Olympic Games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.[1] Aldolfo Contronei, either a 45-year old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper [2] or the captain of the Italian foil team [3] depending on sources, fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year old son of Italo Santelli who coached the Hungarian Olympic team. Giorgio Santelli had invoked the Code Duello in order to fight in the place of his 60-year old father. The duel was fought in the town of Abazzia near the Hungarian border with heavy sabers. The duel was terminated after only two minutes of combat time when Santelli must have landed a tierce of quarte in the side of Contronei's forehead.
A further duel resulted when Kovacs, a Hungarian judge at the Games also involved in the causes of the earlier duel, fought one of the Italian team, Oreste Puliti, four months after the Games over allegations made by Kovacs and other judges.[4]
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Medal summary
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's épée details |
 Charles DelporteBelgium (BEL) |
 Roger DucretFrance (FRA) |
 Nils HellstenSweden (SWE) |
| Men's team épée details |
France (FRA) Lucien Gaudin Georges Buchard Roger Ducret André Labatut Lionel Liottel Alexandre Lippmann Georges Tainturier |
Belgium (BEL) Paul Anspach Joseph De Craecker Charles Delporte Orphile Fernand De Montigny Ernest Gevers Léon Tom |
 Italy (ITA)Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giovanni Canova Vincenzo Cuccia V. Montegazza Oreste Moricca |
| Men's foil details |
Roger Ducret France (FRA) |
Philippe Cattiau France (FRA) |
Maurice E. Van Damme Belgium (BEL) |
| Men's team foil details |
France (FRA) Lucien Gaudin Philippe Cattiau Jacques Coutrot Roger Ducret Henri Jobier André Labattut Guy de Luget Joseph Peroteaux |
Belgium (BEL) Désiré Beurain Charles Crahay Orphile Fernand De Montigny Maurice E. Van Damme Marcel L. Berre Albert De Roocker |
 Hungary (HUN)Laszlo Berti Sandor Posta Zoltan Schenker Ödön Tersztyanszky Istvan Lichteneckert |
| Men's sabre details |
Sandor Posta Hungary (HUN) |
Roger Ducret France (FRA) |
Janos Garay Hungary (HUN) |
| Men's team sabre details |
Italy (ITA) Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi |
Hungary (HUN) Laszlo Berti Janos Garay Sandor Posta Jozsef Rady Zoltan Schenker Laszlo Szechy Ödön Tersztyanszky Jenö Uhlyarik |
 Netherlands (NED)Adrianus De Jong Jetze Doorman Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen Jan Van Der Wiel Maarten Hendrik Van Dulm Henri Jacob Wynoldy-Daniels |
| Women's foil details |
 Ellen OsiierDenmark (DEN) |
 Gladis DavisGreat Britain (GBR) |
Grete Heckscher Denmark (DEN) |
Participating nations
A total of 240 fencers from 23 nations competed at the Paris Games:[5]
Argentina (13) (men:13 women:0)
Austria (5) (men:5 women:0)- Belgium (19) (men:19 women:0)
Chile (1) (men:1 women:0)
Cuba (6) (men:6 women:0)
Czechoslovakia (7) (men:7 women:0)- Denmark (11) (men:7 women:4)
Egypt (3) (men:3 women:0)- France (24) (men:20 women:4)
- Great Britain (20) (men:16 women:4)
Greece (6) (men:6 women:0)- Hungary (10) (men:9 women:1)
- Italy (19) (men:19 women:0)
- Netherlands (17) (men:14 women:3)
Norway (4) (men:4 women:0)
Poland (5) (men:4 women:1)
Portugal (10) (men:10 women:0)
Spain (13) (men:13 women:0)- Sweden (9) (men:6 women:3)
Switzerland (10) (men:7 women:3)
Turkey (1) (men:1 women:0)
United States (21) (men:19 women:2)
Uruguay (6) (men:6 women:0)
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | France (FRA) |
3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Belgium (BEL) |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Denmark (DEN) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Italy (ITA) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Netherlands (NED) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sweden (SWE) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- ^ "SPORTS - Fencing". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=FE. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ "Notes for Men of Iron". www.koryu.com. Koryu.com. http://www.koryu.com/library/cambergernotes1.html#n61. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A14354192?s_id=7. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A14354192?s_id=7&s_split=2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
- ^ De Wael's Full Olympians
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