Fencing at the 1906 Summer Olympics
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At the 1906 Summer Olympics
1906 Summer Olympics
The 1906 Intercalated Games or 1906 Olympic Games were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the "Second International Olympic Games in Athens" by the International Olympic Committee...

in Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, eight events in fencing
Fencing
Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

were contested, all for men only. Now called the Intercalated Games, the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

.

Medal summary

Épée
Épée masters
Team épée  France
Georges Dillon-Kavanagh
Georges de la Falaise
Georges de la Falaise
Comte Louis Gabriel Venant de La Falaise, known as Georges de La Falaise was a French fencer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century....


Pierre Georges Louis d'Hughes
Pierre Georges Louis d'Hughes
Pierre Georges Louis Comte d'Hugues was a French fencer who competed in the early 20th century....


Cyrill Mohr
 United Kingdom
William Grenfell
William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough
William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, was an athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician. He sat in the House of Commons firstly for the Liberal Party and then for the Conservatives between 1880 and 1905 when he was raised to the peerage...


Cosmo Duff-Gordon
Charles Robinson
Edgar Seligman
Edgar Seligman
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 Belgium
Constant Cloquet
Edmond Crahay
Philippe le Hardy
Fernand de Montigny
Fernand de Montigny
Fernand de Montigny was a Belgian fencer and hockey player. He won two silver medals and two bronze in fencing and a bronze in hockey. He was also the architect of the 1920 Olympic Stadium.-References:...

Foil
Sabre
Sabre masters none awarded
Sabre, three hits
Team sabre  Germany
Gustav Casmir
Jacob Erckrath de Bary
August Petri
August Petri
August Petri was a German Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1906 Summer Olympics.-References:...


Emil Schön
Emil Schön
Emil Schön was a German Olympic fencer. He won a gold medal in the team sabre event at the 1906 Summer Olympics.-References:...

 Greece
Ioannis Georgiadis
Ioannis Georgiadis
Ioannis Georgiadis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 1906 Intercalated Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris....


Triantaphylos Kordogiannis
Menelaos Sakorraphos
Chatran Zorbas
 Netherlands
James van Carnbee
Maurits van Löben Sels
Maurits van Löben Sels
Maurits van Löben Sels was a Dutch fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre event at the 1906 Summer Olympics.-References:...


Johannes Osten
George van Rossem
George van Rossem
George van Rossem was a Dutch fencer. He won a silver and three bronze medals. He was the President of the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime from 1925 to 1928.-References:...


Medal table

1  France 3 1 1 5
2  Germany 2 2 0 4
3  Belgium 2 0 1 3
4  Greece 1 2 1 4
5  Netherlands 0 1 2 3
6  Italy 0 1 1 2
7  United Kingdom 0 1 0 1
8  Hungary 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

A total of 62 fencers, all men, from 12 nations competed at the Intercalated Games:
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