At the 1988 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events 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.
Medal summary
Men's events
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| Individual épée<br>
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| team épée<br>
|valign=top| <br>Frederic Delpla<br>Jean-Michel Henry<br>Olivier Lenglet<br>Philippe Riboud<br>Éric Srecki
|valign=top| <br>Elmar Borrmann<br>Volker Fischer<br>Thomas Gerull<br>Alexander Pusch<br>Arnd Schmitt
|valign=top| <br>Andrey Shuvalov<br>Pavel Kolobkov<br>Vladimir Reznichenko<br>Mikhail Tishko<br>Igor Tikhomirov
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| Individual foil<br>
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| Team foil<br>
|valign=top| <br>Vladimer Aptsiauri<br>Anvar Ibragimov<br>Boris Koretsky<br>Ilgar Mamedov<br>Aleksander Romankov
|valign=top| <br>Matthias Behr<br>Thomas Endres<br>Matthias Gey<br>Ulrich Schreck<br>Thorsten Weidner
|valign=top| <br>István Busa<br>Zsolt Érsek<br>Róbert Gátai<br>Pál Szekeres<br>István Szelei
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| Individual sabre <br>
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| Team sabre <br>
|valign=top| <br>Imre Bujdosó<br>László Csongrádi<br>Imre Gedővári<br>György Nébald<br>Bence Szabó
|valign=top| <br>Andrey Alshan<br>Mikhail Burtsev<br>Sergey Koryashkin<br>Sergey Mindirgasov<br>Heorhiy Pohosov
|valign=top| <br>Massimo Cavaliere<br>Gianfranco Dalla Barba<br>Marco Marin<br>Ferdinando Meglio<br>Giovanni Scalzo
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Women's events
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| Individual foil<br>
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| Team foil<br>
| <br>Sabine Bau<br>Anja Fichtel<br>Zita Funkenhauser<br>Anette Klug<br> Christiane Weber
| <br>Francesca Bortolozzi Borella<br>Annapia Gandolfi<br>Lucia Traversa<br>Dorina Vaccaroni<br>Margherita Zalaffi
| <br>Zsuzsa Jánosi<br>Edit Kovács<br>Gertrúd Stefanek<br>Zsuzsanna Szőcs<br>Katalin Tuschák
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Medal table
West Germany finished top of the fencing medal table at the 1988 Summer Olympics, which included a clean-sweap in the Women's foil events.