| Date | 14 – 21 May 1900 |
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| Status | Olympic |
| Location | La Grande Salle des Fêtes de l'Exposition, Champs de Mars, Paris |
| Participants | 53 from 9 countries |
There were 53 fencers from nine nations in this event, but 39 of them were from France. There were several rounds that qualified 16 fencers for the semi-finals. They consisted of individual bouts among the fencers, but a jury decided on who would advance, rather than going strictly by the results of matches.
In the semi-finals and finals, round-robin pools were conducted, and here the match results did determine the placements. The semi-finals consisted of two pools of eight fencers each, with the top four in each pool advancing to the final. France’s Émile Coste won this event by winning 6 of his 7 matches in the final pool. Henri Masson was second, with 5 wins and 2 losses. There was also a consolation pool of the semi-finalists that did not make the final pool, so that the fencers were ranked from 1-16 based on the final and consolation pools.
| Date | 14 – 15 May 1900 |
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| Format | Matches were contested among the participants in round one. The actual results of the matches was not of primary importance. Rather, a jury decided which fencers were the best and advanced those to next round. |
| Date | 16 May 1900 |
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| Format | Matches were contested among the participants in the quarter-finals. The actual results of the matches was not of primary importance. Rather, a jury decided which fencers were the best and advanced those to next round. |
| Date | 17 May 1900 |
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| Format | Matches were contested among the participants in the repêchage pool. The actual results of the matches was not of primary importance. Rather, a jury decided which fencers were the best and advanced those to next round. |
| Date | 18 – 19 May 1900 |
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| Format | Top 4 finishers in each pool advanced to final. Others advanced to consolation final. |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Bouts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Émile Coste |  FRA | 7-0 | ||
| =2 | Henri Masson | FRA | 5-2 | ||
| =2 | Joseph Sénat | FRA | 5-2 | ||
| 4 | Rudolf Brosch |  AUT | 3-4 | ||
| 5 | Charles Guérin | FRA | 3-4 | ||
| =6 | Clément de Boissière | FRA | 2-5 | ||
| =6 | G. Bellot | FRA | 2-5 | ||
| 8 | Tony Smet |  BEL | 1-6 |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marcel Boulenger | FRA | |||
| Félix Debax | FRA | |||
| Pierre d'Hugues | FRA | |||
| Georges, Baron Dillon-Kavanagh | FRA | |||
| Jean-Joseph Renaud | FRA | 4 | ||
| Adrien Guyon | FRA | |||
| Joseph Ducrot | FRA | |||
| Eugène des Logis Berges | FRA |
| Date | 21 May 1900 — 10:00 |
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| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Bouts | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Émile Coste | FRA | 6-1 | ||
| 2 | Henri Masson | FRA | 5-2 | ||
| 3 | Marcel Boulenger | FRA | 4-3 | ||
| 4 | Félix Debax | FRA | 4-3 | ||
| 5 | Pierre d'Hugues | FRA | 3-4 | ||
| 6 | Joseph Sénat | FRA | 3-4 | ||
| 7 | Georges, Baron Dillon-Kavanagh | FRA | 2-5 | ||
| 8 | Rudolf Brosch | AUT | 1-6 |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clément de Boissière | FRA | ||
| 2 | Eugène des Logis Berges | FRA | ||
| 3 | Gabriel, Comte de Saint-Agnan | FRA | 5 | |
| 4 | G. Bellot | FRA | ||
| 5 | Joseph Ducrot | FRA | ||
| 6 | Tony Smet | BEL | ||
| 7 | Adrien Guyon | FRA | ||
| 8 | Charles Guérin | FRA |
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