Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events, further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre.

Fencing is one of the few sports that have been featured in every modern Olympic Games, and for the first time female competitors competed individually using the sabre. The Lexan window mask, showing the athletes' faces, was used for the first time at these Olympics.

Medal summary

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Russian Igor Turchin and American Weston Kelsey duel in the second round of the Olympic men's individual épée event at the Hellinikon Fencing Hall on 17 August 2004

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Hugues Obry Érik Boisse	Template:FlagIOC Gábor Boczkó Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács Géza Imre	Template:FlagIOC Sven Schmid Jörg Fiedler Daniel Strigel
Individual foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Andrea Cassarà Salvatore Sanzo Simone Vanni	Template:FlagIOC Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Ye Chong	Template:FlagIOC Renal Ganeev Youri Moltchan Rouslan Nassiboulline Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov
Individual sabre Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team sabre Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Julien Pillet Damien Touya Gael Touya	Template:FlagIOC Aldo Montano Gianpiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino	Template:FlagIOC Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Dyachenko Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Yakimenko

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
Team épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Karina Aznavourian Oxana Ermakova Tatiana Logounova Anna Sivkova	Template:FlagIOC Claudia Bokel Imke Duplitzer Britta Heidemann	Template:FlagIOC Sarah Daninthe Laura Flessel-Colovic Hajnalka Kiraly Picot Maureen Nisima
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Individual sabre Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist

Medal table

Italy finished top of the fencing medal table at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Template:Medals table

Participating nations

A total of 223 fencers (129 men and 94 women) from 42 nations competed at the Athens Games:

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External links

• Official result book – Fencing