Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics
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At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested.
[edit] Medal summary
[edit] Men's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Foil, individual |  Christian d'OriolaFrance (FRA) |
 Giancarlo BergaminiItaly (ITA) |
Antonio Spallino Italy (ITA) |
| Foil, team | Italy (ITA) Vittorio Lucarelli Luigi Arturo Carpaneda Manlio Di Rosa Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Edoardo Mangiarotti |
France (FRA) Bernard Baudoux Rene Coicaud Claude Netter Roger Closset Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste |
 Hungary (HUN)Lajos Somodi Jozsef Gyuricza Endre Tilli Jozsef Marosi Mihaly Fülöp Jozsef Sakovics |
| Épée, individual | Carlo Pavesi Italy (ITA) |
Giuseppe Delfino Italy (ITA) |
Edoardo Mangiarotti Italy (ITA) |
| Épée, team | Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Franco Bertinetti Alberto Pellegrino Giorgio Anglesio Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti |
Hungary (HUN) Bela Rerrich Ambrus Nagy Barnabas Berzsenyi Jozsef Marosi Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Balthazar |
France (FRA) Yves Dreyfus Rene Queyroux Daniel Dagallier Claude Nigon Armand Mouyal |
| Sabre, individual | Rudolf Kárpáti Hungary (HUN) |
 Jerzy PawłowskiPoland (POL) |
 Lev KuznetsovSoviet Union (URS) |
| Sabre, team | Hungary (HUN) Attila Keresztes Aladár Gerevich Rudolf Kárpáti Jenö Hamori Pál Kovács Daniel Magai |
Poland (POL) Zygmunt Pawlas Jerzy Pawłowski Wojciech Zabłocki Andrzej Ryszard Piątkowski Marian Zygmunt Kuszewski Ryszard Zub |
Soviet Union (URS) Yakov Rylsky David Tyshler Lev Kuznetsov Yevgeni Cherepovsky Leonid Bogdanov |
[edit] Women's event
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Foil |  Gillian Mary SheenGreat Britain (GBR) |
.svg/22px-Flag_of_Romania_(1952-1965).svg.png){kind=small} Olga Orban-SzaboRomania (ROU) |
Renee Garilhe France (FRA) |
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