Fencing at the 1997 Summer Universiade

Fencing events were contested at the 1997 Summer Universiade in the island of Sicily, Italy.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Rolando Tucker (CUB)	Sergei Golubitsky (UKR)	Vadim Ayupov (RUS) Wang Haibin (CHN)
Team Foil	Ukraine (UKR)	Cuba (CUB)	China (CHN)
Individual Épée	Oleksandr Horbachuk (UKR)	Iván Trevejo (CUB)	Davide Burroni (ITA) Gunther Krajevski (GER)
Team Épée	Ukraine (UKR)	Hungary (HUN)	Poland (POL)
Individual Sabre	Vadim Gutzeit (UKR)	Luigi Tarantino (ITA)	Sergey Sharikov (RUS) Dmitry Lapkes (BLR)
Team Sabre	Italy (ITA)	Hungary (HUN)	Ukraine (UKR)

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Valentina Vezzali (ITA)	Anna Giacometti (ITA)	Ildikó Mincza (HUN) Xiao Aihua (CHN)
Team Foil	Hungary (HUN)	Italy (ITA)	Romania (ROM)
Individual Épée	Tímea Nagy (HUN)	Karina Aznavourian (RUS)	Barbara Ciszewska (POL) Viktoriya Titova (UKR)
Team Épée	Hungary (HUN)	Russia (RUS)	China (CHN)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ukraine (UKR)	4	1	2	7
2	Hungary (HUN)	3	2	1	6
3	Italy (ITA)*	2	3	1	6
4	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	0	3
5	Russia (RUS)	0	2	2	4
6	China (CHN)	0	0	4	4
7	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
8	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		10	10	15	35

Men's events