The Greatest Fencing Athlete at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest Fencing athlete of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each male and female Fencing athlete from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Paris 2024 Games.
The best all-time performing Fencing athlete at the Olympic Games is Italian Edoardo Mangiarotti who won 13 medals, including 6 golds, in an Olympic career spanning 1936–1960. Hungarian Aladár Gerevich has won one more gold, but less overall medals. The female with the most gold medals is Italian Valentina Vezzali also with six gold medals. See the table below to see how other athletes ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Fencers
Here are the top-ranked athletes from the sport of Fencing for performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt).
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Fencing at the Olympic Games (including 2024)
| rank | name | country | gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edoardo Mangiarotti | Italy | M | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 48 |
| 2 | Aladár Gerevich | Hungary | M | 7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 46 |
| 3 | Valentina Vezzali | Italy | F | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 40 |
| 4 | Pál Kovács | Hungary | M | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 37 |
| 5 | Rudolf Kárpáti | Hungary | M | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 36 |
| 6 | Nedo Nadi | Italy | M | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 36 |
| 7 | Giovanna Trillini | Italy | F | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 29 |
| 8 | Giuseppe Delfino | Italy | M | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28 |
| 9 | Christian d'Oriola | France | M | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28 |
| 10 | Lucien Gaudin | France | M | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 28 |
| 11 | Elena Novikova-Belova | Soviet Union | F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 27 |
| 12 | Viktor Sidyak | Soviet Union | M | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 27 |
| 13 | Ramón Fonst | Cuba | M | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 26 |
| 14 | Győző Kulcsár | Hungary | M | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 26 |
| 15 | Stanislav Pozdnyakov | Unified Team, Russia | M | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| 16 | Jenő Fuchs | Hungary | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 |
| 17 | Viktor Krovopuskov | Soviet Union | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 |
| 18 | Carlo Pavesi | Italy | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 |
Related Pages
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- medal tables from all Olympic Games
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