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.

Fencing
at the Games of the VIII Olympiad

Scoring controversy

After the games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.[1] Aldolfo Contronei, described in some sources as a 45-year-old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper[2] and others as the captain of the Italian foil team,[3] fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year-old son of the Hungarian Olympic team's coach Italo Santelli. 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 Abbazia 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 Gyorgy 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]

Medal summary

Men's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual épée
 Charles Delporte
 Belgium		 Roger Ducret
 France		 Nils Hellsten
 Sweden
Team épée
  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
Fernand de Montigny
Ernest Gevers
Léon Tom		  Italy (ITA)
Giulio Basletta
Marcello Bertinetti
Giovanni Canova
Vincenzo Cuccia
Virgilio Mantegazza
Oreste Moricca
Individual foil
 Roger Ducret
 France		 Philippe Cattiau
 France		 Maurice Van Damme
 Belgium
Team foil
  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
Fernand de Montigny
Maurice Van Damme
Marcel Berre
Albert De Roocker		  Hungary (HUN)
László Berti
Sándor Pósta
Zoltán Schenker
Ödön Tersztyanszky
István Lichteneckert
Individual sabre
 Sándor Pósta
 Hungary		 Roger Ducret
 France		 János Garay
 Hungary
Team sabre
  Italy (ITA)
Renato Anselmi
Guido Balzarini
Marcello Bertinetti
Bino Bini
Vincenzo Cuccia
Oreste Moricca
Oreste Puliti
Giulio Sarrocchi		  Hungary (HUN)
László Berty
János Garay
Sándor Pósta
József Rády
Zoltán Schenker
László Széchy
Ödön Tersztyánszky
Jenő Uhlyárik		  Netherlands (NED)
Adrianus De Jong
Jetze Doorman
Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen
Jan Van Der Wiel
Maarten Hendrik Van Dulm
Henri Jacob Wynoldy-Daniels

Women's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual foil
 Ellen Osiier
 Denmark		 Gladys Davis
 Great Britain		 Grete Heckscher
 Denmark

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
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France (FRA)3306
2 Belgium (BEL)1214
3 Hungary (HUN)1124
4 Denmark (DEN)1012
 Italy (ITA)1012
6 Great Britain (GBR)0101
7 Netherlands (NED)0011
 Sweden (SWE)0011
Totals (8 entries)77721


References
  1. "SPORTS - Fencing". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  2. "Notes for Men of Iron". www.koryu.com. Koryu.com. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  3. "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  4. "From Fencing to Duelling - Paris, 1924". www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/. h2g2. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  5. "De Wael's Full Olympians". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2009-08-25.
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