At the 1956 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.
Medal summary Men's events individual épée team épéeGiuseppe DelfinoFranco BertinettiAlberto PellegrinoGiorgio AnglesioCarlo PavesiEdoardo MangiarottiBela RerrichAmbrus NagyBarnabas BerzsenyiJozsef MarosiJozsef SakovicsLajos BalthazárYves DreyfusRene QueyrouxDaniel DagallierClaude NigonArmand Mouyal individual foil team foilVittorio LucarelliLuigi Arturo CarpanedaManlio Di RosaGiancarlo BergaminiAntonio SpallinoEdoardo MangiarottiBernard BaudouxRene CoicaudClaude NetterRoger ClossetChristian d'OriolaJacques LatasteLajos SomodiJozsef GyuriczaEndre TilliJozsef MarosiMihaly FülöpJozsef Sakovics individual sabre team sabreAttila KeresztesAladár GerevichRudolf KárpátiJenö HamoriPál KovácsDaniel MagayZygmunt PawlasJerzy PawłowskiWojciech ZabłockiAndrzej Ryszard PiątkowskiMarian Zygmunt KuszewskiRyszard ZubYakov RylskyDavid TyshlerLev KuznetsovYevgeni CherepovskyLeonid Bogdanov
Women's events individual foil
Medal table
Participating nations A total of 165 fencers (142 men and 23 women) from 23 nations competed at the Melbourne Games:
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