Who was the first gold medalist in fencing?

Answer 1

US 2008 Olympic fencers:

Men's foil: Gerek Meinhardt

Women's foil: Emily Cross, Erinn Smart, Hanna Thompson, Doris Willette

Men's epee: Seth Kelsey

Women's epee: Kelley Hurley

Men's sabre: Keeth Smart, Timothy Morehouse, Jason Rogers, James Williams

Women's sabre: Rebecca Ward, Sada Jacobson, Mariel Zagunis, Dagmara Wozniak

Answer 2

As of 2000, Italy led the count with 40 gold medals, ahead of France, which had 36 golds. France led the overall count with 105 medals while Italy had 100. They were both far ahead of anyone else. I'm not sure what has happened since then, but I know that each has gained medals in the last two summer Olympics. Through the 2008 Olympics, Italy has won the most gold medals at 45, France is second at 44, and Hungary is third at 34.

Answer 3

Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, that would be Aladar Gerevich of Hungary who won 7 gold medals in Olympic competition:

1932 - Team Sabre

1936 - Team Sabre

1948 - Team Sabre, Individual Sabre

1952 - Team Sabre

1956 - Team Sabre

1960 - Team Sabre

Eduardo Mangiarotti of Italy, Pal Kovacs of Hungary, Nedo Nadi of Italy, and Rudolf Karpati of Hungary of Hungary each won 6 gold medals.

The leading women's gold medalist is Valentina Vezzali of Italy with 5.

Answer 4

In the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: -Women's Individual Foil: Valentina Vezzali of Italy won Gold. -Women's Individual Epee: Britta Heidemann of Germany won Gold. -Women's Individual Saber: Mariel Zagunis of The United States won Gold.

Answer 5

That was Eugene-Henri Gravelotte of France who won men's foil at the 1896 Games in Athens on April 7.

Answer 6

italy