Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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At the 1952 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.^[1]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual épée details	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy	Dario Mangiarotti  Italy	Oswald Zappelli  Switzerland
team épée details	Italy (ITA) Roberto Battaglia Carlo Pavesi Franco Bertinetti Giuseppe Delfino Dario Mangiarotti Edoardo Mangiarotti	Sweden (SWE) Berndt-Otto Rehbinder Bengt Ljungquist Per Hjalmar Carleson Carl Forssell Sven Fahlman Lennart Magnusson	Switzerland (SUI) Otto Rüfenacht Paul Meister Oswald Zappelli Paul Barth Willy Fitting Mario Valota
individual foil details	Christian d'Oriola  France	Edoardo Mangiarotti  Italy	Manlio Di Rosa  Italy
team foil details	France (FRA) Christian d'Oriola Jacques Lataste Jehan Buhan Claude Netter Jacques Noël Adrien Rommel	Italy (ITA) Giancarlo Bergamini Antonio Spallino Manlio Di Rosa Giorgio Pellini Edoardo Mangiarotti Renzo Nostini	Hungary (HUN) Endre Palócz Tibor Berczelly Endre Tilli Aladár Gerevich Jozsef Sakovics Lajos Maszlay
individual sabre details	Pál Kovács  Hungary	Aladár Gerevich  Hungary	Tibor Berczelly  Hungary
team sabre details	Hungary (HUN) Bertalan Papp László Rajcsányi Rudolf Kárpáti Tibor Berczelly Aladár Gerevich Pál Kovács	Italy (ITA) Giorgio Pellini Vincenzo Pinton Renzo Nostini Mauro Racca Gastone Darè Roberto Ferrari	France (FRA) Maurice Piot Jacques Lefèvre Bernard Morel Jean Laroyenne Jean Francois Tournon Jean Levavasseur

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
individual foil details	Irene Camber  Italy	Ilona Elek  Hungary	Karen Lachmann  Denmark

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	4	1	8
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	2	6
3	France (FRA)	2	0	1	3
4	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
6	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

A total of 286 fencers (249 men and 37 women) from 32 nations competed at the Helsinki Games:^[1]