1981 World Fencing Championships

1981 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	Clermont-Ferrand, France
← 1979 Melbourne 1982 Rome →

The 1981 World Fencing Championships were held in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The event was held between July 2-13, 1981.^[1]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	0	6
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	2	5
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	2	4
4	Poland (POL)	1	0	1	2
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	3	4
6	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 nations)		8	8	8	24

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Vladimir Smirnov	Petru Kuki	Angelo Scuri
Team Foil	Soviet Union	Italy	West Germany
Individual Sabre	Dariusz Wódke	Imre Gedővári	Michele Maffei
Team Sabre	Hungary	Soviet Union	Poland
Individual Épée	Zoltán Székely	Aleksandr Mozhayev	Elmar Borrmann
Team Épée	Soviet Union	Switzerland	Hungary

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Cornelia Hanisch	Jujie Luan	Dorina Vaccaroni
Team Foil	Soviet Union	West Germany	Hungary

References[]