2018 World Fencing Championships
2018 World Fencing Championships
Host city	Wuxi, China
Date(s)	19–27 July
Main venue	Wuxi Sports Center Indoor Stadium
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2018 World Fencing Championships
Épée	men	women
Team épée	men	women
Foil	men	women
Team foil	men	women
Sabre	men	women
Team sabre	men	women

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

Host selection

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

Schedule

Twelve events were held.^[3]

All times are local (UTC+8).

Medal summary

Medal table

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

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Yannick Borel  France	Rubén Limardo  Venezuela	Bohdan Nikishyn  Ukraine
			Roman Svichkar  Ukraine
Team épée	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	Alessio Foconi  Italy	Richard Kruse  Great Britain	Heo Jun  South Korea
			Carlos Llavador  Spain
Team foil	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	Kim Jung-hwan  South Korea	Eli Dershwitz  United States	Kamil Ibragimov  Russia
			Kim Jun-ho  South Korea
Team sabre	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

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Mara Navarria  Italy	Ana Maria Brânză  Romania	Laura Staehli  Switzerland
			Courtney Hurley  United States
Team épée	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	Alice Volpi  Italy	Ysaora Thibus  France	Arianna Errigo  Italy
			Inès Boubakri  Tunisia
Team foil	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	Sofia Pozdniakova  Russia	Sofya Velikaya  Russia	Anne-Elizabeth Stone  United States
			Yana Egorian  Russia
Team sabre	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

References

External links

• Official website