At the 1980 Summer Olympics, eight fencing events were contested.

Table of contents
1 Individual Foil, Men
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

Individual Foil, Men

PosAthlete
1Vladimir Smirnov (URS)
2Pascal Jolyot (FRA)
3Aleksander Romankov (ITA)

Individual Épée, Men

PosAthlete
1Johan Harmenberg (SWE)
2Ernö Kolszonay (HUN)
3Philippe Riboud (FRA)

Individual Sabre, Men

PosAthlete
1Viktor Krovopuskov (URS)
2Mikhail Burtsev (URS)
3Imre Gedovari (HUN)

Individual Foil, Women

PosAthlete
1Pascale Trinquet-Hachin (FRA)
2Magda Maros (HUN)
3Barbara Wysoczanska (POL)

Team Foil, Men

PosAthletes
1Didier Flament, Pascal Jolyot, Bruno Boscherie, Philippe Bonin, Frederic Pietruszka (FRA)
2Aleksander Romankov, Vladimir Smirnov, Sabirzhan Ruziev, Ashot Karagian, Vladimir Lapitsky (URS)
3Adam Robak, Boguslaw Zych, Lech Koziejowski, Marian Sypniewski (POL)

Team Épée, Men

PosAthletes
1Philippe Riboud, Patrick Picot, Hubert Gardas, Philippe Boisse, Michel Salesse (FRA)
2Piotr Jablkowski, Andrzei Lis, Leszek Swornowski, Ludomir Chronowski, Mariusz Strzalka (POL)
3Ashot Karagian, Boris Lukomsky, Aleksander Abushackmetov, Aleksander Mozhaev (URS)

Team Sabre, Men

PosAthletes
1Mikhail Burtsev, Viktor Krovopuskov, Viktor Sidyak, Vladimir Nazlymov, Nikolai Alekhin (URS)
2Michele Maffei, Mario Montano, Marco Romano, Ferdinando Meglio, Giovanni Scalzo (ITA)
3Imre Gedovari, Rudolf Nebald, Pal Gerevich, Ferenc Hammang, György Nebald (HUN)

Team Foil, Women

PosAthletes
1Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin, Pascale Trinquet-Hachin, Isabelle Begard, Veronique Brouquier, Christine Muzio (FRA)
2Valentina Sidorova, Nailia Giliazova, Elena Novikova-Belova, Irina Ushakova, Larisa Tsagaraeva (URS)
3Ildiko Schwarczenberger, Magda Maros, Gertrud Stefanek, Zsuzsa Szocs, Edit Kovacs (HUN)