Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's foil
| Men's foil at the Games of the I Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Zappeion | ||||||||||||
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| Date | 7 April 1896 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 8 from 2 nations | ||||||||||||
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| Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics | |
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| Foil | men |
| Masters foil | men |
| Sabre | men |
The men's foil was one of the fencing events in the 1896 Summer Olympics. It was on 7 April. There were 8 fencers. There was 2 semifinal round-robin rounds.
The first semifinal round had Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, Henri de Laborde, Henri Callot, and Ioannis Poulos. The second semifinal round had Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis, Georgios Balakakis, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and Athanasios Vouros. Callot and Gravelotte won every round in their groups. They went against each other in the final round. Pierrakos-Mavromichalis and Vouros were both given third place.
Background
[change | change source]The foil has been at every Summer Olympics except 1908.[1]
Competition format
[change | change source]The event had a semifinal round. After the semifinals, there was a final. You would win a match if you "touched" a player three times. The normal foil rules were used. However, there was a different rule that the president could give someone a touch if the defender did not defend himself correctly. The semifinals had 2 rounds. Each of these had 4 fencers. The fencers played everyone else in their round. The winner of each pool would go to the final round. The final round was a single round with two fencers.[1][2][3]
Schedule
[change | change source]The fencing started at 10 a.m.. It was on the 2nd day of events.
| Date | Time | Round | |
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| Gregorian | Julian | ||
| Tuesday, 7 April 1896 | Tuesday, 26 March 1896 | 10:00 | Semifinals Final |
Results
[change | change source]Semifinals
[change | change source]Semifinal A
[change | change source]It was written that de Laborde lost to Poulos, 3–1. However, other sources say that de Laborde won 3–2. In the table, it shows the 3-2 version.[4][1][3]
| Pos | Fencer | W | L | TF | TA | Qual. | HC | PPM | HdL | IP | |
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| 1 |  Henri Callot (FRA)
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3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | Q | 3–1 | 3–1 | 3–2 | ||
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 Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis (GRE)
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2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1–3 | 3–1 | 3–0 | |||
| 3 | Henri de Laborde (FRA)
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1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 3–2 | |||
| 4 | Ioannis Poulos (GRE)
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0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–3 |
Semifinal B
[change | change source]| Pos | Fencer | W | L | TF | TA | Qual. | EHG | AV | KKM | GB | |
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| 1 | Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (FRA)
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3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | Q | 3–2 | 3–2 | 3–1 | ||
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Athanasios Vouros (GRE)
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2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2–3 | 3–1 | ||||
| 3 | Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis (GRE)
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1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2–3 | 3–1 | ||||
| 4 | Georgios Balakakis (GRE)
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0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–3 |
Final
[change | change source]| Pos | Fencer | W | L | TF | TA | EHG | HC | |
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Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (FRA)
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1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3–1 | ||
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Henri Callot (FRA)
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0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1–3 |
Final classification
[change | change source]This is the results according to the IOC.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Foil, Individual, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ↑ Official Report, p. 65.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Athens 1896 Fencing Foil Individual Men Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ↑ Official Report, p. 67.
- Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at [1])
- Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at [2])
- Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.