Fencing at the 1924 Summer Olympics
At the 1924 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested. A women's event, the individual foil, was held for the first time.
After the Olympic Games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.[1] Aldolfo Contronei, either a 45-year-old fencing critic for an Italian newspaper [2] or the captain of the Italian foil team [3] depending on sources, fought Giorgio Santelli, the 27-year-old son of Italo Santelli who coached the Hungarian Olympic team. 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.[4]
Contents
Medal summary
Men's events
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual foil |
 Ellen Osiier (DEN) |
 Gladis Davis (GBR) |
Grete Heckscher (DEN) |
Participating nations
A total of 240 fencers from 23 nations competed at the Paris Games:[5]
Argentina (13) (men:13 women:0)
Austria (5) (men:5 women:0)
Belgium (19) (men:19 women:0)
Chile (1) (men:1 women:0)
Cuba (6) (men:6 women:0)
Czechoslovakia (7) (men:7 women:0)
Denmark (11) (men:7 women:4)- 23x15px Egypt (3) (men:3 women:0)
France (24) (men:20 women:4)
Great Britain (20) (men:16 women:4)
Greece (6) (men:6 women:0)
Hungary (10) (men:9 women:1)
Italy (19) (men:19 women:0)
Netherlands (17) (men:14 women:3)
Norway (4) (men:4 women:0)
Poland (5) (men:4 women:1)
Portugal (10) (men:10 women:0)- 23x15px Spain (13) (men:13 women:0)
Sweden (9) (men:6 women:3)
Switzerland (10) (men:7 women:3)
Turkey (1) (men:1 women:0)
United States (21) (men:19 women:2)
Uruguay (6) (men:6 women:0)
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  France (FRA) |
3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 |  Belgium (BEL) |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 |  Hungary (HUN) |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Denmark (DEN) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Italy (ITA) |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 |  Netherlands (NED) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden (SWE) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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