At the 1972 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.
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2 Individual Épée, Men 3 Individual Sabre, Men 4 Individual Foil, Women 5 Team Foil, Men 6 Team Épée, Men 7 Team Sabre, Men 8 Team Foil, Women |
| Pos | Athlete |
| 1 | Witold Woyda (POL) |
| 2 | Jenö Kamuti (HUN) |
| 3 | Christian Noël (FRA) |
| \'Pos | Athlete' |
| 1 | Csaba Fenyvesi (HUN) |
| 2 | Jacques Ladegaillerie (FRA) |
| 3 | Gyözö Kulcsar (HUN) |
| Pos | Athlete |
| 1 | Viktor Sidyak (URS) |
| 2 | Peter Maroth (HUN) |
| 3 | Vladimir Nazlymov (URS) |
| Pos | Athlete |
| 1 | Antonella Ragno-Lonzi (ITA) |
| 2 | Ildiko Bobis-Ferkasinszky (HUN) |
| 3 | Galina Gorokhova (URS) |
| Pos | Athletes |
| 1 | Marek Dabrowski, Jerzy Kaczmarek, Lech Koziejowski, Witold Woyda, Arkadiusz Godel (POL) |
| 2 | Vladimir Denisov, Anatoli Kotetsev, Leonid Romanov, Vasili Stankovich, Victor Putyatin (URS) |
| 3 | Jean-Claude Magnan, Christian Noël, Daniel Revenu, Bernard Talvard, Gilles Berolatti (FRA) |
| Pos | Athletes |
| 1 | Sandor Erdös, Csaba Fenyvesi, Gyözö Kulcsar, Pal Schmitt, Istvan Osztrics (HUN) |
| 2 | Guy Evequoz, Daniel Giger, Christian Kauter, Peter Lötscher, François Suchanecki (SUI) |
| 3 | Viktor Modzalevsky, Sergei Paramonov, Igor Valetov, Georgi Zazhitsky, Grigori Kriss (URS) |
| Pos | Athletes |
| 1 | Michele Maffei, Mario Aldo Montano, Mario Tullio Montano, Rolando Rigoli, Cesare Salvadori (ITA) |
| 2 | Viktor Bashenov, Vladimir Nazlymov, Viktor Sidyak, Eduard Vinokurov, Mark Rakita (URS) |
| 3 | Pal Gerevich, Tamas Kovacs, Peter Maroth, Tibor Pezsa, Peter Bakonyi (HUN) |
| Pos | Athletes |
| 1 | Elena Novikova-Belova, Galina Gorokhova, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Aleksandra Zabelina, Svetlana Chirkova (URS) |
| 2 | Ildiko Bobis-Ferkasinszky, Ildiko Rejtö-Ujlaki, Ildiko Schwarczenberger, Maria Gulacsi-Szolnoki, Ildiko Matuscak-Ronay (HUN) |
| 3 | Ileana Gyulai-Drimba-Jenei, Ana Dersidan-Ene-Pascu, Ecaterina Clara Iencic-Stahl, Olga Orban-Szabo (ROM) |
