1999 World Fencing Championships

1999 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	Seoul, South Korea
Date(s)	November 1 – 8
← 1998 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2000 Budapest →

The 1999 World Fencing Championships were held in Seoul, South Korea. The event took place from November 1 to November 8, 1999. It was the first Fencing World Championship in which individual and team women's sabre competitions were held.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Arnd Schmitt	Peter Vanky	Pavel Kolobkov Kaido Kaaberma
Individual Foil	Sergei Golubitsky	Matteo Zennaro	Wolfgang Wienand Kim Young-Ho
Individual Sabre	Damien Touya	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Jean-Phillippe Daurelle Luigi Tarantino
Team Épée	France Jean-François Di Martino Eric Srecki Hugues Obry	Germany Arnd Schmitt Marc-Konstantin Steifensand Jörg Fiedler Elmar Borrmann	Cuba Iván Trevejo Carlos Pedroso
Team Foil	France Lionel Plumenail Patrice Lhotellier	China Wang Haibin Ye Chong Zhang Jie Dong Zhaozhi	Poland Adam Krzesinski Piotr Kielpikowski Slawomir Mocek
Team Sabre	France Damien Touya Jean-Phillippe Daurelle Matthieu Gourdain Julien Pillet	Poland Marcin Sobala Norbert Jaskot Rafal Sznajder	Russia Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Frosin Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Dyachenko

Women's events[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Laura Flessel-Colovic	Diana Romagnoli	Ildikó Mincza
Individual Foil	Valentina Vezzali	Sabine Bau	Iris Zimmermann Svetlana Boyko
Individual Sabre	Yelena Jemayeva	Ilaria Bianco
Team Épée	Hungary Ildikó Mincza Gyöngyi Szalay Hajnalka Tóth Tímea Nagy	China Liang Qin Li Na	Germany Imke Duplitzer Claudia Bokel Katja Nass
Team Foil	Germany Sabine Bau Monika Weber Simone Bauer	Poland Sylwia Gruchala Barbara Wolnicka Magdalena Mroczkiewicz	China Xiao Aihua Meng Jie Yuan Li
Team Sabre	Italy Ilaria Bianco	France Cécile Argiolas Anne-Lise Touya	Azerbaijan Yelena Jemayeva

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	5	1	2	8
2	Germany (GER)	2	2	2	6
	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
6	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
7	China (CHN)	0	2	1	3
	Poland (POL)	0	2	1	3
9	Russia (RUS)	0	1	3	4
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
12	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	2	2
13	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)*	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		12	12	18	42

References[]

• FIE Results