1998 World Fencing Championships

1998 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Date(s)	October 6 – 11
← 1997 Cape Town 1999 Seoul →

The 1998 World Fencing Championships were held in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Hugues Obry	Peter Vanky	Carlos Pedroso Attila Fekete
Individual Foil	Sergei Golubitsky	Elvis Gregory Gil	Salvatore Sanzo Piotr Kielpikowski
Individual Sabre	Luigi Tarantino	Raffaello Caserta	Fernando Medina Sergey Sharikov
Team Épée	Hungary Attila Fekete Géza Imre Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács	France Hugues Obry Éric Srecki	Russia Pavel Kolobkov Valery Zakharevich
Team Foil	Poland Piotr Kielpikowski Slawomir Mocek Adam Krzesinski	France Patrice Lhotellier Laurent Bel Lionel Plumenail	South Korea Kim Yong-Ho You Bong-Hyung Kim Seung-Pyo
Team Sabre	Hungary Domonkos Ferjancsik Zsolt Nemcsik József Navarrete	France Damien Touya Jean-Philippe Daurelle Matthieu Gourdain Gael Touya	Poland Norbert Jaskot Marcin Sobala Rafał Sznajder Dariusz Gilman

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Laura Flessel-Colovic		Hajnalka Tóth Gyöngyi Szalay
Individual Foil	Sabine Bau	Svetlana Boyko	Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini
Team Épée	France Laura Flessel-Colovic Valérie Barlois-Mevel-Leroux Sophie Moressée-Pichot Sangita Tripathi	Cuba	Ukraine
Team Foil	Italy Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Diana Bianchedi	Romania Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo Roxana Scarlat Laura Badea	Poland Barbara Wolnicka Sylwia Gruchała Anna Rybicka Magdalena Mroczkiewicz

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	3	0	6
2	Italy (ITA)	2	1	3	6
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	3	5
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	0	2
5	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
6	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
7	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	1	3
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
11	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		10	10	15	35

References[]

• FIE Results