Fencing at the 1980 Summer Olympics

At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, eight events in fencing were contested. Men competed in both individual and team events for each of the three weapon types (épée, foil and sabre), but women competed only in foil events.<ref name="sports-reference">Template:Cite web</ref> They were held between July 22 and July 31 at the fencing hall of the Sports Complex of the Central Sports Club of the Army (north-western part of Moscow).

Medal summary

Individual épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
team épée Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Philippe Riboud Patrick Picot Hubert Gardas Philippe Boisse Michel Salesse	Template:FlagIOCteam Piotr Jabłkowski Andrzej Lis Leszek Swornowski Ludomir Chronowski Mariusz Strzałka	Template:FlagIOCteam Ashot Karagian Boris Lukomsky Aleksander Abushackmetov Aleksander Mozhaev Vladimir Smirnov
Individual foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
team foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Didier Flament Pascal Jolyot Bruno Boscherie Philippe Bonnin Frederic Pietruszka	Template:FlagIOCteam Aleksander Romankov Vladimir Smirnov Sabirzhan Ruziev Ashot Karagian Vladimir Lapitsky	Template:FlagIOCteam Adam Robak Bogusław Zych Lech Koziejowski Marian Sypniewski
Individual sabre Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
team sabre Template:DetailsLink<ref>http://www.dinomeglio.com/page/dino/img/f_Mosca_80.jpg Template:Dead link Picture of team sabre from medal ceremony.</ref>	Template:FlagIOCteam Mikhail Burtsev Viktor Krovopuskov Viktor Sidjak Vladimir Nazlymov Nikolay Alyokhin<ref>Olympedia page</ref>	Template:FlagIOCteam Michele Maffei Mario Aldo Montano Marco Romano Ferdinando Meglio Giovanni Scalzo	Template:FlagIOCteam Imre Gedővári Rudolf Nébald Pál Gerevich Ferenc Hammang György Nébald

individual foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	Template:FlagIOCmedalist
team foil Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin Pascale Trinquet Isabelle Begard Veronique Brouquier Christine Muzio	Template:FlagIOCteam Valentina Sidorova Nailia Giliazova Elena Belova Irina Ushakova Larisa Tsagaraeva	Template:FlagIOCteam Ildikó Schwarczenberger Magda Maros Gertrúd Stefanek Zsuzsanna Szőcs Edit Kovács

A total of 182 fencers (133 men and 49 women) from 20 nations competed at the Moscow Games:<ref name="sports-reference" />