Fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's foil

Men's foil at the Games of the III Olympiad
Venue	Francis Gymnasium, Washington University in St. Louis
Date	September 7
Competitors	9 from 3 nations
Medalists
Ramón Fonst   Cuba   Albertson Van Zo Post   Cuba   Charles Tatham   Cuba

Fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics
Foil	men
Team foil	men
Épée	men
Sabre	men
Singlestick	men

The men's foil was a fencing event held as part of the fencing at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third time the event was held at the Olympics. The competition was held on September 7, 1904.

9 fencers from 3 nations competed.

Results

Semifinals

Each fencer in a group faced each other fencer in that group once. The top two fencers in each semifinal group moved on to the final.

Semifinal pool A
Place	Name	Wins	Losses
1.	Ramón Fonst (CUB)	4	0
2.	Albertson Van Zo Post (USA) [1]	3	1
3.	Charles Townsend (USA)	2	2
4.	Theodore Carstens (USA)	1	3
5.	William Grebe (USA)	0	4

Semifinal pool B
Place	Name	Wins	Losses
1.	Gustav Casmir (GER)	3	0
2.	Charles Tatham (USA) [2]	2	1
3.	Wilfred Holroyd (USA)	1	2
4.	Arthur Fox (USA)	0	3

Final

Fonst continued to defeat all comers, including Post a second time, to win the gold. Post's only two losses in the event came against Fonst, as he took silver. Tatham, who had lost to Casmir in the semifinal pool, defeated him the second time around to take third place.

Place	Name	Wins	Losses
1	Ramón Fonst (CUB)	3	0
2	Albertson Van Zo Post (CUB) [1]	2	1
3	Charles Tatham (CUB) [2]	1	2
4	Gustav Casmir (GER)	0	3

Notes

1. The IOC results database shows Albertson Van Zo Post as Cuban however he was American.
2. The IOC results database shows Charles Tatham as Cuban for individual events and American for the team event however he was American.

Sources

• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 17 December 2006.