At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. A women's event, the individual foil, was held for the first time.
Scoring controversy After the games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel. Aldolfo Contronei, described in some sources as a 45-year-old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper and others as the captain of the Italian foil team, fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year-old son of the Hungarian Olympic team's coach Italo Santelli. Giorgio Santelli had invoked the Code Duello in order to fight in the place of his 60-year-old father. The duel was fought in the town of Abbazia near the Hungarian border with heavy sabers. The duel was terminated after only two minutes of combat time when Santelli must have landed a tierce of quarte in the side of Contronei's forehead.
A further duel resulted when Gyorgy Kovacs, a Hungarian judge at the Games also involved in the causes of the earlier duel, fought one of the Italian team, Oreste Puliti, four months after the Games over allegations made by Kovacs and other judges.
Medal summary Men's events Individual épée Team épée Lucien Gaudin Georges Buchard Roger Ducret André Labatut Lionel Liottel Alexandre Lippmann Georges Tainturier Paul Anspach Joseph De Craecker Charles Delporte Fernand de Montigny Ernest Gevers Léon TomGiulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giovanni Canova Vincenzo Cuccia Virgilio Mantegazza Oreste Moricca Individual foil Team foil Lucien Gaudin Philippe Cattiau Jacques Coutrot Roger Ducret Henri Jobier André Labattut Guy de Luget Joseph PeroteauxDésiré Beurain Charles Crahay Fernand de Montigny Maurice Van Damme Marcel Berre Albert De RoockerLászló Berti Sándor Pósta Zoltán Schenker Ödön Tersztyanszky István Lichteneckert Individual sabre Team sabre Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio SarrocchiLászló Berty János Garay Sándor Pósta József Rády Zoltán Schenker László Széchy Ödön Tersztyánszky Jenő UhlyárikAdrianus De Jong Jetze Doorman Hendrik Scherpenhuyzen Jan Van Der Wiel Maarten Hendrik Van Dulm Henri Jacob Wynoldy-Daniels
Women's events Individual foil
Participating nations
A total of 240 fencers from 23 nations competed at the Paris Games:
(men:13 women:0) (men:5 women:0) (men:19 women:0) (men:1 women:0) (men:6 women:0) (men:7 women:0) (men:7 women:4) (men:3 women:0) (men:20 women:4) (men:16 women:4) (men:6 women:0) (men:9 women:1) (men:19 women:0) (men:14 women:3) (men:4 women:0) (men:4 women:1) (men:10 women:0) (men:13 women:0) (men:6 women:3) (men:7 women:3) (men:1 women:0) (men:19 women:2) (men:6 women:0)
Medal table
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