2018_World_Fencing_Championships Knowpia

2018 World Fencing Championships
2018 World Fencing Championships
	2018 World Fencing Championships
Host city	Wuxi, China
Date(s)	19–27 July
Main venue	Wuxi Sports Center Indoor Stadium
	← 2017 Leipzig 2019 Budapest →

The 2018 World Fencing Championships was held from 19 to 27 July at 2018 in Wuxi, China.^[1]

Host selection edit

On 23 November 2015, Wuxi beat the Japanese city of Fukuoka with 69 votes to 47.^[2]

Twelve events were held.^[3]

All times are local (UTC+8).


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	4	2	1	7
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	3	7
3	United States (USA)	2	2	2	6
4	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
5	Russia (RUS)	1	2	4	7
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
7	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
10	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
11	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		12	12	18	42

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Yannick Borel France	Rubén Limardo Venezuela	Bohdan Nikishyn Ukraine
Individual épée details	Yannick Borel France	Rubén Limardo Venezuela	Roman Svichkar Ukraine
Team épée details	Switzerland Max Heinzer Lucas Malcotti Michele Niggeler Benjamin Steffen	South Korea Jung Jin-sun Kweon Young-jun Park Kyoung-doo Park Sang-young	Russia Sergey Bida Nikita Glazkov Sergey Khodos Pavel Sukhov
Individual foil details	Alessio Foconi Italy	Richard Kruse Great Britain	Heo Jun South Korea
Individual foil details	Alessio Foconi Italy	Richard Kruse Great Britain	Carlos Llavador Spain
Team foil details	Italy Giorgio Avola Andrea Cassarà Alessio Foconi Daniele Garozzo	United States Miles Chamley-Watson Race Imboden Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt	Russia Timur Arslanov Aleksey Cheremisinov Timur Safin Dmitry Zherebchenko
Individual sabre details	Kim Jung-hwan South Korea	Eli Dershwitz United States	Kamil Ibragimov Russia
Individual sabre details	Kim Jung-hwan South Korea	Eli Dershwitz United States	Kim Jun-ho South Korea
Team sabre details	South Korea Gu Bon-gil Kim Jung-hwan Kim Jun-ho Oh Sang-uk	Italy Enrico Berrè Luca Curatoli Aldo Montano Luigi Samele	Hungary Tamás Decsi Csanád Gémesi András Szatmári Áron Szilágyi

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Mara Navarria Italy	Ana Maria Brânză Romania	Laura Staehli Switzerland
Individual épée details	Mara Navarria Italy	Ana Maria Brânză Romania	Courtney Hurley United States
Team épée details	United States Katharine Holmes Courtney Hurley Kelley Hurley Amanda Sirico	South Korea Choi In-jeong Kang Young-mi Lee Hye-in Shin A-lam	China Lin Sheng Sun Yiwen Xu Chengzi Zhu Mingye
Individual foil details	Alice Volpi Italy	Ysaora Thibus France	Arianna Errigo Italy
Individual foil details	Alice Volpi Italy	Ysaora Thibus France	Inès Boubakri Tunisia
Team foil details	United States Lee Kiefer Margaret Lu Nzingha Prescod Nicole Ross	Italy Chiara Cini Arianna Errigo Camilla Mancini Alice Volpi	France Anita Blaze Astrid Guyart Pauline Ranvier Ysaora Thibus
Individual sabre details	Sofia Pozdniakova Russia	Sofya Velikaya Russia	Anne-Elizabeth Stone United States
Individual sabre details	Sofia Pozdniakova Russia	Sofya Velikaya Russia	Yana Egorian Russia
Team sabre details	France Cécilia Berder Manon Brunet Charlotte Lembach Caroline Quéroli	Russia Yana Egorian Sofia Pozdniakova Svetlana Sheveleva Sofya Velikaya	South Korea Choi Soo-yeon Hwang Seo-na Kim Ji-yeon Yoon Ji-su

^ "Wuxi to host World Fencing Championships in 2018". insidethegames.biz. 23 November 2015.
^ "Wuxi chosen to host 2018 World Fencing Championships". chinadaily.com.cn. 23 November 2015.
^ "Schedule". Archived from the original on 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-05-15.