1998 World Fencing Championships

The 1998 World Fencing Championships were held in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

1998 World Championships in Fencing
Dates	October 6 – 11
Host city	La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
← 1997 Cape Town 1999 Seoul →

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Hugues Obry	Peter Vanky	Carlos Pedroso Attila Fekete
Individual Foil	Sergei Golubitsky	Elvis Gregory Gil	Salvatore Sanzo Piotr Kielpikowski
Individual Sabre	Luigi Tarantino	Raffaello Caserta	Fernando Medina Sergey Sharikov
Team Épée	Hungary Attila Fekete Géza Imre Krisztián Kulcsár Iván Kovács	France Hugues Obry Frantz Philippe Rémy Delhomme Éric Srecki	Russia Pavel Kolobkov Valery Zakharevich Andrey Kolotilin Aleksandr Eletskikh
Team Foil	Poland Piotr Kielpikowski Slawomir Mocek Adam Krzesinski	France Patrice Lhotellier Laurent Bel Lionel Plumenail	South Korea Kim Yong-Ho You Bong-Hyung Chung Kwang-Suk Kim Seung-Pyo
Team Sabre	Hungary Domonkos Ferjancsik György Boros Zsolt Nemcsik József Navarrete	France Damien Touya Jean-Philippe Daurelle Matthieu Gourdain Gael Touya	Poland Norbert Jaskot Marcin Sobala Rafał Sznajder Dariusz Gilman

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Laura Flessel-Colovic	Denise Holzkamp	Hajnalka Tóth Gyöngyi Szalay
Individual Foil	Sabine Bau	Svetlana Boyko	Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini
Team Épée	France Laura Flessel-Colovic Valérie Barlois-Mevel-Leroux Sophie Moressée-Pichot Sangita Tripathi	Cuba Tamara Estery Almeida Mirayda Garcia Soto Zuleid Ortiz Puente Mila Palma Gonzalez	Ukraine Eva Vybornova Viktoria Titova Alla Mironuk Anna Garina
Team Foil	Italy Valentina Vezzali Giovanna Trillini Annamaria Giacometti Diana Bianchedi	Romania Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo Roxana Scarlat Laura Badea Claudia Vanță	Poland Barbara Wolnicka Sylwia Gruchała Anna Rybicka Magdalena Mroczkiewicz

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	3	3	0	6
2	Italy (ITA)	2	1	3	6
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	3	5
4	Germany (GER)	1	1	0	2
5	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
6	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
7	Cuba (CUB)	0	2	1	3
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
9	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
11	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		10	10	15	35

References

• FIE Results