2018 World Fencing Championships

2018 World Fencing Championships
Dates	19–27 July
Host city	Wuxi, China
Venue	Wuxi Sports Center Indoor Stadium
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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).

Date	Time	Round
19 July 2018	09:00	Women's épée qualification
	11:00	Men's sabre qualification
20 July 2018	08:30	Women's foil qualification
	10:40	Men's épée qualification
21 July 2018	08:30	Men's foil qualification
	10:40	Women's sabre qualification
22 July 2018	09:30	Women's épée
	10:40	Men's sabre
23 July 2018	08:30	Men's épée
	09:40	Women's foil
24 July 2018	08:30	Women's sabre
	10:10	Men's foil
	08:30	Women's épée team
	10:30	Men's sabre team
25 July 2018	08:30	Women's foil team
	09:20	Men's épée team
	12:20	Women's épée team
	13:10	Men's sabre team
26 July 2018	08:30	Men's foil team
	09:10	Women's sabre team
	11:30	Women's foil team
	12:30	Men's épée team
27 July 2018	11:00	Women's sabre team
	12:00	Men's foil team

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 details	Yannick Borel   France	Rubén Limardo   Venezuela	Bohdan Nikishyn   Ukraine
			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
			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
			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

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Mara Navarria   Italy	Ana Maria Brânză   Romania	Laura Staehli   Switzerland
			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
			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
			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

References

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

External links

• Official website