# Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

At the 1988 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Arnd Schmitt West Germany | Philippe Riboud France | Andrey Shuvalov Soviet Union |
| team épée details | France (FRA) Frederic Delpla Jean-Michel Henry Olivier Lenglet Philippe Riboud Éric Srecki | West Germany (FRG) Elmar Borrmann Volker Fischer Thomas Gerull Alexander Pusch Arnd Schmitt | Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Shuvalov Pavel Kolobkov Vladimir Reznichenko Mikhail Tishko Igor Tikhomirov |
| Individual foil details | Stefano Cerioni Italy | Udo Wagner East Germany | Alexandr Romankov Soviet Union |
| Team foil details | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimer Aptsiauri Anvar Ibragimov Boris Koretsky Ilgar Mamedov Aleksander Romankov | West Germany (FRG) Matthias Behr Thomas Endres Matthias Gey Ulrich Schreck Thorsten Weidner | Hungary (HUN) István Busa Zsolt Érsek Róbert Gátai Pál Szekeres István Szelei |
| Individual sabre details | Jean-François Lamour France | Janusz Olech Poland | Giovanni Scalzo Italy |
| Team sabre details | Hungary (HUN) Imre Bujdosó László Csongrádi Imre Gedővári György Nébald Bence Szabó | Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Alshan Mikhail Burtsev Sergey Koryashkin Sergey Mindirgasov Heorhiy Pohosov | Italy (ITA) Massimo Cavaliere Gianfranco Dalla Barba Marco Marin Ferdinando Meglio Giovanni Scalzo |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual foil details | Anja Fichtel West Germany | Sabine Bau West Germany | Zita Funkenhauser West Germany |
| Team foil details | West Germany (FRG) Sabine Bau Anja Fichtel Zita Funkenhauser Anette Klug Christiane Weber | Italy (ITA) Francesca Bortolozzi Borella Annapia Gandolfi Lucia Traversa Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi | Hungary (HUN) Zsuzsa Jánosi Edit Kovács Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Katalin Tuschák |

## Medal table

West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

## Participating nations

A total of 317 fencers (248 men and 69 women) from 42 nations competed at the Seoul Games:
* Argentina (2)
* Aruba (1)
* Australia (2)
* Austria (5)
* Bahrain (4)
* Belgium (2)
* Bolivia (1)
* Brazil (4)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Canada (18)
* China (15)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Colombia (5)
* East Germany (7)
* Egypt (2)
* Finland (1)
* France (19)
* Great Britain (13)
* Hong Kong (7)
* Hungary (20)
* Indonesia (2)
* Italy (20)
* Japan (10)
* Jordan (1)
* Kuwait (8)
* Lebanon (2)
* Mexico (1)
* Monaco (1)
* Netherlands (5)
* New Zealand (1)
* Paraguay (2)
* Philippines (1)
* Poland (18)
* Portugal (3)
* Romania (2)
* South Korea (20)
* Soviet Union (20)
* Spain (8)
* Sweden (11)
* Switzerland (7)
* United States (19)
* West Germany (20)