100px|border|fencing at the 1896 summer olympics, three fencing events were contested at the zappeion. they were prepared and organized by the sub-committee for fencing. the Ã©pÃ©e event for men was cancelled. all fencing was done to three touches. events were held on 7 april and 9 april 1896. 15 athletes from four nations competed; 8 fencers from 3 nations won one medal each. ==medal summary== these medals are retroactively assigned by the international olympic committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal. {|  |- | foil |  |  |  |- | masters foil |  |  | none |- | sabre |  |  |  |} ==participating nations==  a total of 15 fencers from four nations competed at the athens games: *  *  *  *  ==medal table== {|  |- | 1 ||align=left|  || 2 || 1 || 1 || 4 |- | 2 ||align=left|  || 1 || 2 || 0 || 3 |- | 3 ||align=left|  || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 |} ==sub-committee for fencing== * ioannis phokianos, president * georgios streit, secretary * ioannis yenissarlis * loukas belos * nikolaos politis * chas. waldstein * dimitrios aiginitis * dimitrios sekkeris * spyridon koumoundouros * konstantinos manos * spyridon antonopoulos ==see also==  *list of olympic medalists in fencing (men) *list of olympic medalists in fencing (women) ==references== *  (digitally available at ) *  (excerp
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