# 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
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Marcel Fischer Switzerland | Wang Lei China | Pavel Kolobkov Russia |
| Team épée details | France (FRA) Fabrice Jeannet Jérôme Jeannet Hugues Obry Érik Boisse | Hungary (HUN) Gábor Boczkó Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács Géza Imre | Germany (GER) Sven Schmid Jörg Fiedler Daniel Strigel |
| Individual foil details | Brice Guyart France | Salvatore Sanzo Italy | Andrea Cassarà Italy |
| Team foil details | Italy (ITA) Andrea Cassarà Salvatore Sanzo Simone Vanni | China (CHN) Dong Zhaozhi Wang Haibin Wu Hanxiong Ye Chong | Russia (RUS) Renal Ganeev Youri Moltchan Rouslan Nassiboulline Vyacheslav Pozdnyakov |
| Individual sabre details | Aldo Montano Italy | Zsolt Nemcsik Hungary | Vladyslav Tretiak Ukraine |
| Team sabre details | France (FRA) Julien Pillet Damien Touya Gael Touya | Italy (ITA) Aldo Montano Gianpiero Pastore Luigi Tarantino | Russia (RUS) Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Dyachenko Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Yakimenko |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual épée details | Tímea Nagy Hungary | Laura Flessel-Colovic France | Maureen Nisima France |
| Team épée details | Russia (RUS) Karina Aznavourian Oxana Ermakova Tatiana Logounova Anna Sivkova | Germany (GER) Claudia Bokel Imke Duplitzer Britta Heidemann | France (FRA) Sarah Daninthe Laura Flessel-Colovic Hajnalka Kiraly Picot Maureen Nisima |
| Individual foil details | Valentina Vezzali Italy | Giovanna Trillini Italy | Sylwia Gruchała Poland |
| Individual sabre details | Mariel Zagunis United States | Tan Xue China | Sada Jacobson United States |

## Medal table

Italy finished top of the fencing medal table at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Russia (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | United States (USA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | China (CHN) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Ukraine (UKR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |

## Participating nations

A total of 223 fencers (129 men and 94 women) from 42 nations competed at the Athens Games:
* Algeria (7)
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (2)
* Azerbaijan (1)
* Belgium (1)
* Belarus (2)
* Brazil (3)
* Canada (6)
* Chile (1)
* China (19)
* Colombia (1)
* Republic of the Congo (1)
* Cuba (4)
* Egypt (9)
* France (19)
* Germany (12)
* Great Britain (2)
* Greece (9)
* Hong Kong (3)
* Hungary (15)
* Israel (1)
* Italy (12)
* Japan (5)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (6)
* Russia (18)
* Senegal (2)
* South Africa (3)
* South Korea (12)
* Spain (1)
* Switzerland (1)
* Thailand (2)
* Tunisia (2)
* Ukraine (10)
* United States (15)
* Venezuela (4)