World Fencing Championships

The World Fencing Championships is an annual competition in fencing organized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE; International Fencing Federation in English). Contestants may participate in foil, épée, and sabre events.

World Fencing Championships
Status	active
Frequency	annual
Inaugurated	1921 (1921)
Most recent	2023
Next event	2025
Organised by	FIE
Website	www.fie.ch

History

The FIE first organized an international fencing championship in Paris, France in 1921. The competition in its early years was named the European Championships (Championnats d'Europe), and the initial participants were members of the fencing federations of the FIE. In 1921, the only event was men's épée individual. In 1922 and 1923, men's sabre individual was also held. In 1925, only men's sabre individual was held. Since 1926, men's individual events have been held in all three weapons: épée, foil, and sabre. In 1929, women's foil was added to the program as well as a men's foil team event. Men's épée and sabre teams were added in 1930 and women's foil team in 1932. Women's épée individual and team events were added in 1988, and women's sabre individual and team in 1999.

After the 1936 Olympics, the government of Benito Mussolini in Italy offered national recognition and privileges to winners of Olympic or world titles, but not European titles. The Italian fencing federation requested that the FIE change the name of the European Championships to World Championships (Championnats du Monde). The FIE approved this request and gave retroactive World Championship status to the previous European Championships.

Since 1921, the FIE championships have occurred annually except for an interruption forced by World War II from 1939 to 1946, and in some of the years when the Summer Olympics are held. The fencing competitions at the Summer Olympics have served as the World Championships of the year for the relevant events. Since 1932, World Championships have been held during the Olympic years only for those events not being held during that year's Summer Olympics. For the years 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, and 1956, World Championships were held only in Women's Foil Team since that event was not on the Olympic program during those years. After this event was added to the Olympic program beginning with the 1960 Olympics, the FIE stopped holding World Championships during the Olympic years until 1988 when women's épée individual and women's épée team events were added to the World Championship program, but the IOC declined to add these events to the Olympic program. A World Championship in these two events was again held in 1992 for the same reason. Finally, in 1996 the IOC added these two events to the Olympic program, and the FIE again stopped holding a World Championship in an Olympic year.

When the FIE added women's sabre to the World Championships in 1999, the IOC refused to add these two events to the 2000 Olympic program and so the FIE held a World Championships in only women's sabre in 2000. For the 2004 Olympics, the IOC allowed women's sabre to be contested at the Olympics but only under the condition that the number of fencing events being contested (individual and team) remain at ten. The FIE reluctantly agreed to this condition, and has satisfied it by not contesting two of the team events at the Olympics but holding World Championships for them instead during those years. So World Championships have been held but Olympic events have not been held (2004–16) for the following events:

• 2004 – women's foil team, women's sabre team
• 2008 – men's foil team, women's épée team
• 2012 – men's épée team, women's sabre team
• 2016 – men's sabre team, women's foil team

From 2020 Summer Olympics, all 12 fencing events were held, which means no World Championships are held on Olympic years.

Naming

These World Fencing Championships are usually referred to as Senior World Fencing Championships because the FIE also runs three other World Championships. Beginning in 1950, the FIE also sanctioned an annual competitions which it originally called the Junior World Criterium (Criterium Mondial des Jeunes). Entries were originally restricted to those 21 years of age or lower, but in 1960 the age limit was dropped to 20. In 1964, the name of the competition was officially changed to Junior World Championships, and world championship status was retroactively granted to the participants of the previous competitions.

Beginning in 1987, the FIE began sanctioning an annual competition called the Cadet World Championships. Entries were restricted to those 17 years of age or lower. Originally the Junior and Cadet World Championships were held in different cities on different dates, but beginning in 1993 they've been called the Junior/Cadet World Championships and have been held at the same venue with all of the cadet events held first followed by all of the junior events.

Beginning in 1997, the FIE began sanctioning an annual competition called the Veteran World Championships. Entries were restricted to those 40 years of age or older the first year, and 50 years or older in subsequent years.

Hosts

Edition Year Host City Country Events International Fencing Championships (Unofficial) 1 1921 Paris France 1 2 1922 Paris Ostend France Belgium 1 1 3 1923 The Hague Netherlands 2 4 1925 Ostend Belgium 1 5 1926 Budapest Ostend Hungary Belgium 2 1 6 1927 Vichy France 3 7 1929 Naples Italy 5 8 1930 Liège Belgium 7 9 1931 Vienna Austria 7 10 1932 Copenhagen Denmark 1 11 1933 Budapest Hungary 8 12 1934 Warsaw Poland 8 13 1935 Lausanne Switzerland 8 14 1936 San Remo Italy 1 World Fencing Championships (Official) 1 1937 Paris France 8 2 1938 Piešťany Czechoslovakia 7 3 1947 Lisbon Portugal 8 4 1948 The Hague Netherlands 1 5 1949 Cairo Egypt 7 6 1950 Monte Carlo Monaco 8 7 1951 Stockholm Sweden 8 8 1952 Copenhagen Denmark 1 9 1953 Brussels Belgium 8 10 1954 Luxembourg Luxembourg 8 11 1955 Rome Italy 8 12 1956 London Great Britain 1 13 1957 Paris France 8 14 1958 Philadelphia United States 8 15 1959 Budapest Hungary 8 16 1961 Turin Italy 8 17 1962 Buenos Aires Argentina 8 18 1963 Gdańsk Poland 8 19 1965 Paris France 8 20 1966 Moscow Soviet Union 8 21 1967 Montreal Canada 8 22 1969 Havana Cuba 8 23 1970 Ankara Turkey 8 24 1971 Vienna Austria 8 25 1973 Gothenburg Sweden 8 26 1974 Grenoble France 8

Edition Year Host City Country Events 27 1975 Budapest Hungary 8 28 1977 Buenos Aires Argentina 8 29 1978 Hamburg West Germany 8 30 1979 Melbourne Australia 8 31 1981 Clermont-Ferrand France 8 32 1982 Rome Italy 8 33 1983 Vienna Austria 8 34 1985 Barcelona Spain 8 35 1986 Sofia Bulgaria 8 36 1987 Lausanne Switzerland 8 37 1988 Orléans France 2 38 1989 Denver United States 10 39 1990 Lyon France 10 40 1991 Budapest Hungary 10 41 1992 Havana Cuba 2 42 1993 Essen Germany 10 43 1994 Athens Greece 10 44 1995 The Hague Netherlands 10 45 1997 Cape Town South Africa 10 46 1998 La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland 10 47 1999 Seoul South Korea 12 48 2000 Budapest Hungary 2 49 2001 Nîmes France 12 50 2002 Lisbon Portugal 12 51 2003 Havana Cuba 12 52 2004 New York City United States 2 53 2005 Leipzig Germany 12 54 2006 Turin Italy 12 55 2007 Saint Petersburg Russia 12 56 2008 Beijing China 2 57 2009 Antalya Turkey 12 58 2010 Paris France 12 59 2011 Catania Italy 12 60 2012 Kyiv Ukraine 2 61 2013 Budapest Hungary 12 62 2014 Kazan Russia 12 63 2015 Moscow Russia 12 64 2016 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2 65 2017 Leipzig Germany 12 66 2018 Wuxi China 12 67 2019 Budapest Hungary 12 68 2022 Cairo Egypt 12 69 2023 Milan Italy 12 70 2025 Tbilisi Georgia 12 71 2026 Hong Kong China 12

Hosting tally

Hosting nations 1921–2023

Times hosted	Host country
12	France
8	Hungary, Italy
5	Belgium
3	Austria, Cuba, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, United States
2	Argentina, China, Denmark, Egypt, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey
1	Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Greece, Luxembourg, Monaco, South Africa, South Korea, Ukraine, Spain, Soviet Union, West Germany

Medal table

This table has been last updated after the 2023 World Fencing Championships. This counts the medals from the World Championships since 1921, and does not include the results of the fencing competitions at the Summer Olympics.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	122	112	137	371
2	France	97	98	98	293
3	Hungary	96	87	95	278
4	Soviet Union	92	54	47	193
5	Russia	56	32	36	124
6	West Germany	25	26	16	67
7	Germany	22	35	45	102
8	Poland	18	29	42	89
9	Romania	13	22	32	67
10	United States	12	16	18	46
11	Ukraine	12	12	20	44
12	South Korea	11	12	27	50
13	China	8	20	17	45
14	Sweden	7	15	21	43
15	Cuba	6	5	9	20
16	Estonia	5	6	6	17
17	Denmark	5	3	4	12
18	Austria	4	4	9	17
19	Japan	4	2	8	14
20	Great Britain	3	6	9	18
21	Netherlands	3	3	6	12
22	Switzerland	2	9	13	24
23	Belgium	2	4	11	17
24	Spain	2	2	7	11
25	Azerbaijan	2	2	4	8
26	Bulgaria	1	3	5	9
27	Czechoslovakia	1	3	1	5
28	Norway	1	0	1	2
29	Brazil	1	0	0	1
30	Venezuela	0	2	1	3
31	Greece	0	1	3	4
	Tunisia	0	1	3	4
33	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	Canada	0	1	2	3
	East Germany	0	1	2	3
36	Georgia	0	1	1	2
37	Portugal	0	1	0	1
38	Egypt	0	0	8	8
39	Hong Kong	0	0	4	4
40	CIS	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Totals (44 entries)		633	631	775	2039

World champions

Épée

Year	Men's individual	Women's individual	Men's team	Women's team
1921	Lucien Gaudin
1922	Raoul Heide
1923	Wouter Brouwer
1926	Georges Tainturier
1927	Georges Buchard
1929	Philippe Cattiau
1930	Philippe Cattiau		Belgium
1931	Georges Buchard		Italy
1933	Georges Buchard		Italy
1934	Pál Dunay		France
1935	Hans Drakenberg		France
1937	Bernard Schmetz		Italy
1938	Michel Pécheux		France
1939–1946	did not take place due to World War II
1947	Édouard Artigas		France
1949	Dario Mangiarotti		Italy
1950	Mogens Lüchow		Italy
1951	Edoardo Mangiarotti		France
1953	József Sákovics		Italy
1954	Edoardo Mangiarotti		Italy
1955	Giorgio Anglesio		Italy
1957	Armand Mouyal		Italy
1958	Bill Hoskyns		Italy
1959	Bruno Habārovs		Hungary
1961	Jack Guittet		Soviet Union
1962	István Kausz		France
1963	Roland Losert		Poland
1965	Zoltán Nemere		France
1966	Aleksey Nikanchikov		France
1967	Aleksey Nikanchikov		Soviet Union
1969	Bohdan Andrzejewski		Soviet Union
1970	Aleksey Nikanchikov		Hungary
1971	Grigory Kriss		Hungary
1973	Rolf Edling		West Germany
1974	Rolf Edling		Sweden
1975	Alexander Pusch		Sweden
1977	Johan Harmenberg		Sweden
1978	Alexander Pusch		Hungary
1979	Philippe Riboud		Soviet Union
1981	Zoltán Székely		Soviet Union
1982	Jenő Pap		France
1983	Elmar Borrmann		France
1985	Philippe Boisse		West Germany
1986	Philippe Riboud		West Germany
1987	Volker Fischer		Soviet Union
1988	event not held	Brigitte Benon	event not held	West Germany
1989	Manuel Pereira	Anja Straub	Italy	Hungary
1990	Thomas Gerull	Taymi Chappé	Italy	West Germany
1991	Andrey Shuvalov	Mariann Horváth	Soviet Union	Hungary
1992	event not held	Mariann Horváth	event not held	Hungary
1993	Pavel Kolobkov	Oksana Jermakova	Italy	Hungary
1994	Pavel Kolobkov	Laura Chiesa	France	Spain
1995	Éric Srecki	Joanna Jakimiuk	Germany	Hungary
1997	Éric Srecki	Mirayda García	Cuba	Hungary
1998	Hugues Obry	Laura Flessel-Colovic	Hungary	France
1999	Arnd Schmitt	Laura Flessel-Colovic	France	Hungary
2001	Paolo Milanoli	Claudia Bokel	Hungary	Russia
2002	Pavel Kolobkov	Hyun Hee	France	Hungary
2003	Fabrice Jeannet	Natalia Konrad	Russia	Russia
2005	Pavel Kolobkov	Danuta Dmowska	France	France
2006	Wang Lei	Tímea Nagy	France	China
2007	Krisztián Kulcsár	Britta Heidemann	France	France
2008	events not held			France
2009	Anton Avdeyev	Lyubov Shutova	France	Italy
2010	Nikolai Novosjolov	Maureen Nisima	France	Romania
2011	Paolo Pizzo	Li Na	France	Romania
2012	events not held		United States	event not held
2013	Nikolai Novosjolov	Julia Beljajeva	Hungary	Russia
2014	Ulrich Robeiri	Rossella Fiamingo	France	Russia
2015	Géza Imre	Rossella Fiamingo	Ukraine	China
2017	Paolo Pizzo	Tatyana Gudkova	France	Estonia
2018	Yannick Borel	Mara Navarria	Switzerland	United States
2019	Gergely Siklósi	Nathalie Moellhausen	France	China
2022	Romain Cannone	Song Se-ra	France	South Korea
2023	Máté Tamás Koch	Marie-Florence Candassamy	Italy	Poland

Foil

Year	Men's individual	Women's individual	Men's team	Women's team
1926	Giorgio Chiavacci
1927	Oreste Puliti
1929	Oreste Puliti	Helene Mayer	Italy
1930	Giulio Gaudini	Jenny Addams	Italy
1931	René Lemoine	Helene Mayer	Italy
1932	events not held			Denmark
1933	Gioacchino Guaragna	Gwendoline Neligan	Italy	Hungary
1934	Giulio Gaudini	Ilona Elek	Italy	Hungary
1935	André Gardère	Ilona Elek	Italy	Hungary
1936	events not held			Germany
1937	Gustavo Marzi	Helene Mayer	Italy	Hungary
1938	Gioacchino Guaragna	Marie Šedivá	Italy	event not held
1939–1946	did not take place due to World War II
1947	Christian d'Oriola	Ellen Müller-Preis	France	Denmark
1948	events not held			Denmark
1949	Christian d'Oriola	Ellen Müller-Preis	Italy	event not held
1950	Renzo Nostini	Ellen Müller-Preis & Renée Garilhe	Italy	France
1951	Manlio Di Rosa	Ilona Elek	France	France
1952	events not held			Hungary
1953	Christian d'Oriola	Irene Camber	France	Hungary
1954	Christian d'Oriola	Karen Lachmann	Italy	Hungary
1955	József Gyuricza	Lídia Dömölky	Italy	Hungary
1956	events not held			Soviet Union
1957	Mihály Fülöp	Alexandra Zabelina	Hungary	Italy
1958	Giancarlo Bergamini	Valentina Rastvorova	France	Soviet Union
1959	Allan Jay	Emma Yefimova	Soviet Union	Hungary
1961	Ryszard Parulski	Heidi Schmid	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1962	German Sveshnikov	Olga Szabó-Orbán	Soviet Union	Hungary
1963	Jean-Claude Magnan	Ildikó Rejtő	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1965	Jean-Claude Magnan	Galina Gorokhova	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1966	German Sveshnikov	Tatyana Samusenko	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1967	Viktor Putyatin	Alexandra Zabelina	Romania	Hungary
1969	Friedrich Wessel	Elena Belova	Soviet Union	Romania
1970	Friedrich Wessel	Galina Gorokhova	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1971	Vasyl Stankovych	Marie-Chantal Demaille	France	Soviet Union
1973	Christian Noël	Valentina Nikonova	Soviet Union	Hungary
1974	Alexandr Romankov	Ildikó Bóbis	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1975	Christian Noël	Ecaterina Stahl	France	Soviet Union
1977	Alexandr Romankov	Valentina Sidorova	West Germany	Soviet Union
1978	Didier Flament	Valentina Sidorova	Poland	Soviet Union
1979	Alexandr Romankov	Cornelia Hanisch	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1981	Vladimir Smirnov	Cornelia Hanisch	Soviet Union	Soviet Union
1982	Alexandr Romankov	Nailya Gilyazova	Soviet Union	Italy
1983	Alexandr Romankov	Dorina Vaccaroni	West Germany	Italy
1985	Mauro Numa	Cornelia Hanisch	Italy	West Germany
1986	Andrea Borella	Anja Fichtel	Italy	Soviet Union
1987	Mathias Gey	Elisabeta Tufan	West Germany	Hungary
1989	Alexander Koch	Olga Velichko	Soviet Union	West Germany
1990	Philippe Omnès	Anja Fichtel	Italy	Italy
1991	Ingo Weißenborn	Giovanna Trillini	Cuba	Italy
1993	Alexander Koch	Francesca Bortolozzi	Germany	Germany
1994	Rolando Tucker	Réka Szabó-Lăzar	Italy	Romania
1995	Dmitriy Shevchenko	Laura Badea	Cuba	Italy
1997	Sergei Golubitsky	Giovanna Trillini	France	Italy
1998	Sergei Golubitsky	Sabine Bau	Poland	Italy
1999	Sergei Golubitsky	Valentina Vezzali	France	Germany
2001	Salvatore Sanzo	Valentina Vezzali	France	Italy
2002	Simone Vanni	Svetlana Boyko	Germany	Russia
2003	Peter Joppich	Valentina Vezzali	Italy	Poland
2004	events not held			Italy
2005	Salvatore Sanzo	Valentina Vezzali	France	South Korea
2006	Peter Joppich	Margherita Granbassi	France	Russia
2007	Peter Joppich	Valentina Vezzali	France	Poland
2008	events not held		Italy	event not held
2009	Andrea Baldini	Aida Shanayeva	Italy	Italy
2010	Peter Joppich	Elisa Di Francisca	China	Italy
2011	Andrea Cassarà	Valentina Vezzali	China	Russia
2013	Miles Chamley-Watson	Arianna Errigo	Italy	Italy
2014	Aleksey Cheremisinov	Arianna Errigo	France	Italy
2015	Yūki Ōta	Inna Deriglazova	Italy	Italy
2016	events not held			Russia
2017	Dmitry Zherebchenko	Inna Deriglazova	Italy	Italy
2018	Alessio Foconi	Alice Volpi	Italy	United States
2019	Enzo Lefort	Inna Deriglazova	United States	Russia
2022	Enzo Lefort	Ysaora Thibus	Italy	Italy
2023	Tommaso Marini	Alice Volpi	Japan	Italy

Sabre

Year	Men's individual	Women's individual	Men's team	Women's team
1922	Adrianus de Jong
1923	Adrianus de Jong
1925	János Garay
1926	Sándor Gombos
1927	Sándor Gombos
1929	Gyula Glykais
1930	György Piller		Hungary
1931	György Piller		Hungary
1933	Endre Kabos		Hungary
1934	Endre Kabos		Hungary
1935	Aladár Gerevich		Hungary
1937	Pál Kovács		Hungary
1938	Aldo Montano		Italy
1939–1946	did not take place due to World War II
1947	Aldo Montano		Italy
1949	Gastone Darè		Italy
1950	Jean Levavasseur		Italy
1951	Aladár Gerevich		Hungary
1953	Pál Kovács		Hungary
1954	Rudolf Kárpáti		Hungary
1955	Aladár Gerevich		Hungary
1957	Jerzy Pawłowski		Hungary
1958	Yakov Rylsky		Hungary
1959	Rudolf Kárpáti		Poland
1961	Yakov Rylsky		Poland
1962	Zoltán Horváth		Poland
1963	Yakov Rylsky		Poland
1965	Jerzy Pawłowski		Soviet Union
1966	Jerzy Pawłowski		Hungary
1967	Mark Rakita		Soviet Union
1969	Viktor Sidyak		Soviet Union
1970	Tibor Pézsa		Soviet Union
1971	Michele Maffei		Soviet Union
1973	Mario Aldo Montano		Hungary
1974	Mario Aldo Montano		Soviet Union
1975	Vladimir Nazlymov		Soviet Union
1977	Pál Gerevich		Soviet Union
1978	Viktor Krovopuskov		Hungary
1979	Vladimir Nazlymov		Soviet Union
1981	Dariusz Wódke		Hungary
1982	Viktor Krovopuskov		Hungary
1983	Vasil Etropolski		Soviet Union
1985	György Nébald		Soviet Union
1986	Sergey Mindirgasov		Soviet Union
1987	Jean-François Lamour		Soviet Union
1989	Grigory Kiriyenko		Soviet Union
1990	György Nébald		Soviet Union
1991	Grigory Kiriyenko		Hungary
1993	Grigory Kiriyenko		Hungary
1994	Felix Becker		Russia
1995	Grigory Kiriyenko		Italy
1997	Stanislav Pozdnyakov		France
1998	Luigi Tarantino		Hungary
1999	Damien Touya	Yelena Jemayeva	France	Italy
2000	event not held	Yelena Jemayeva	event not held	United States
2001	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Anne-Lise Touya	Russia	Russia
2002	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Tan Xue	Russia	Russia
2003	Volodymyr Lukashenko	Dorina Mihai	Russia	Italy
2004	events not held			Russia
2005	Mihai Covaliu	Anne-Lise Touya	Russia	United States
2006	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Rebecca Ward	France	France
2007	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Yelena Nechayeva	Hungary	France
2008	events not held
2009	Nicolas Limbach	Mariel Zagunis	Romania	Ukraine
2010	Won Woo-young	Mariel Zagunis	Russia	Russia
2011	Aldo Montano	Sofya Velikaya	Russia	Russia
2012	events not held			Russia
2013	Veniamin Reshetnikov	Olha Kharlan	Russia	Ukraine
2014	Nikolay Kovalev	Olha Kharlan	Germany	United States
2015	Aleksey Yakimenko	Sofya Velikaya	Italy	Russia
2016	events not held		Russia	event not held
2017	András Szatmári	Olha Kharlan	South Korea	Italy
2018	Kim Jung-hwan	Sofia Pozdniakova	South Korea	France
2019	Oh Sang-uk	Olha Kharlan	South Korea	Russia
2022	Áron Szilágyi	Misaki Emura	South Korea	Hungary
2023	Eli Dershwitz	Misaki Emura	Hungary	Hungary

Multiple gold medalists

Boldface denotes active fencers and highest medal count among all fencers (including these who not included in these tables) per type. The numbers in brackets denotes number of medals earned at the unofficial World Championships in 1921–1936 (known as European Championships back then) which are counted in overall statistics.

Men

All events

Rank	Fencer	Country	Weapon(s)	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Aladár Gerevich	Hungary	Sabre & Foil	1931	1959	(5) 14 (5)	2	(1) 3 (1)	(6) 19 (6)
2	Edoardo Mangiarotti	Italy	Épée & Foil	1937	1958	13	8	5	26
3	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Russia	Sabre	1994	2007	10	5	2	17
4	Vladimir Nazlymov	Soviet Union	Sabre	1967	1979	10	3	2	15
5	Alexandr Romankov	Soviet Union	Foil	1974	1989	10	2	3	15
6	Pál Kovács	Hungary	Sabre	1933	1958	(1) 10 (1)	2	–	(1) 12 (1)
7	Gustavo Marzi	Italy	Foil & Sabre	1929	1938	(5) 9 (5)	(10) 11 (10)	(1) 1 (1)	(16) 21 (16)
8	German Sveshnikov	Soviet Union	Foil	1958	1969	9	2	1	12
9	Giulio Gaudini	Italy	Foil & Sabre	1929	1938	(7) 8 (7)	(7) 7 (7)	(2) 2 (2)	(16) 17 (16)
10	Christian d'Oriola	France	Foil	1947	1958	8	5	–	13

Individual events

Rank	Fencer	Country	Weapon	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Russia	Sabre	1994	2007	5	3	–	8
2	Alexandr Romankov	Soviet Union	Foil	1974	1983	5	1	–	6
3	Pavel Kolobkov	Soviet Union Russia	Épée	1989	2005	4	1	2	7
4	Christian d'Oriola	France	Foil	1947	1955	4	1	–	5
5	Peter Joppich	Germany	Foil	2003	2010	4	–	1	5
	Grigory Kiriyenko	Soviet Union Russia	Sabre	1989	1995	4	–	1	5
7	Jerzy Pawłowski	Poland	Sabre	1957	1971	3	4	1	8
8	Sergei Golubitsky	Ukraine	Foil	1993	1999	3	1	1	5
9	Aladár Gerevich	Hungary	Sabre	1935	1955	(1) 3 (1)	1	–	(1) 4 (1)
	Aleksey Nikanchikov	Soviet Union	Épée	1966	1970	3	1	–	4

Women

All events

Rank	Fencer	Country	Weapon	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Valentina Vezzali	Italy	Foil	1994	2016	16	6	4	26
2	Ilona Elek	Hungary	Foil	1933	1956	(5) 11 (5)	(1) 5 (1)	2	(6) 18 (6)
3	Arianna Errigo	Italy	Foil	2009	2023	10	7	5	22
4	Galina Gorokhova	Soviet Union	Foil	1958	1971	9	6	1	16
5	Alexandra Zabelina	Soviet Union	Foil	1956	1971	9	6	–	15
6	Giovanna Trillini	Italy	Foil	1986	2007	9	5	6	20
7	Valentina Sidorova (Burochkina)	Soviet Union	Foil	1973	1986	9	2	1	12
8	Sofya Velikaya	Russia	Sabre	2004	2019	8	5	3	16
9	Margit Elek	Hungary	Foil	1933	1956	(3) 8 (3)	(2) 4 (2)	1	(5) 13 (5)
10	Elena Belova (Novikova)	Soviet Union	Foil	1969	1979	8	4	–	12

Individual events

Rank	Fencer	Country	Weapon	From	To	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Valentina Vezzali	Italy	Foil	1994	2014	6	2	4	12
2	Olha Kharlan	Ukraine	Sabre	2009	2019	4	2	1	7
3	Ilona Elek	Hungary	Foil	1934	1955	(2) 3 (2)	2	1	(2) 6 (2)
4	Ellen Müller-Preis	Austria	Foil	1931	1950	3	(1) 1 (1)	(1) 2 (1)	(2) 6 (2)
5	Inna Deriglazova	Russia	Foil	2013	2019	3	–	1	4
	Cornelia Hanisch	West Germany	Foil	1978	1985	3	–	1	4
7	Helene Mayer	Germany	Foil	1929	1937	(2) 3 (2)	–	–	(2) 3 (2)
8	Arianna Errigo	Italy	Foil	2009	2023	2	3	5	10
9	Sofya Velikaya	Russia	Sabre	2005	2019	2	3	1	6
10	Mariel Zagunis	United States	Sabre	2006	2014	2	3	–	5

See also

• Fencing at the Summer Olympics
• Junior World Fencing Championships
• Fencing World Cup

Sources

• Cohen, Richard (2002). By the Sword. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50417-6.

External links

• Official site of FIE