Fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's team foil

The women's team foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1988 Summer Olympics programme. It was the eighth appearance of the event. The competition was held from 27 to 28 September 1988. 60 fencers from 12 nations competed.

Rosters

 * Canada
 * Marie-Huguette Cormier
 * Madeleine Philion
 * Jacynthe Poirier
 * Shelley Steiner
 * Thalie Tremblay


 * China
 * Li Huahua
 * Jujie Luan
 * Sun Hongyun
 * Xiao Aihua
 * Zhu Qingyuan


 * France
 * Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin
 * Gisèle Meygret
 * Laurence Modaine-Cessac
 * Nathalie Pallet
 * Isabelle Spennato


 * Great Britain
 * Ann Brannon
 * Linda Ann Martin
 * Fiona McIntosh
 * Linda Strachan
 * Liz Thurley


 * Hungary
 * Zsuzsa Némethné Jánosi
 * Gertrúd Stefanek
 * Zsuzsa Szőcs
 * Katalin Tuschák
 * Edit Kovács


 * Italy
 * Dorina Vaccaroni
 * Margherita Zalaffi
 * Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella
 * Lucia Traversa
 * Annapia Gandolfi


 * Japan
 * Nona Kiritani
 * Keiko Mine
 * Mieko Miyahara
 * Akemi Morikawa
 * Tomoko Oka


 * Poland
 * Małgorzata Breś
 * Agnieszka Dubrawska
 * Jolanta Królikowska
 * Hanna Prusakowska
 * Anna Sobczak


 * South Korea
 * Kim Jin-sun
 * Sin Seong-Ja
 * Tak Jeong-Im
 * Yun Jeong-Suk
 * Park Eun-Hui


 * Soviet Union
 * Yelena Glikina
 * Yelena Grishina
 * Tatyana Sadovskaya
 * Marina Soboleva
 * Olga Voshchakina


 * United States
 * Caitlin Bilodeaux
 * Elaine Cheris
 * Sharon Monplaisir
 * Mary O'Neill
 * Molly Sullivan


 * West Germany
 * Anja Fichtel-Mauritz
 * Zita-Eva Funkenhauser
 * Christiane Weber
 * Sabine Bau
 * Annette Klug

Round 1 Pool A
The United States and West Germany each defeated Great Britain, 9–6 and 9–3 respectively. The winners then faced off, with West Germany winning 9–1.

Round 1 Pool B
South Korea and Hungary each defeated Canada, 9–3 and 8–6 (with an insurmountable 57–46 touches advantage) respectively. The winners then faced off, with Hungary winning 9–4.

Round 1 Pool C
France and the Soviet Union each defeated Poland, 9–3 and 9–6 respectively. The winners then faced off, with the Soviet Union winning 9–4.

Round 1 Pool D
China and Italy each defeated Japan, 9–5 and 9–0 respectively. The winners then faced off, with Italy winning 9–6.