1998 World Fencing Championships

Host City La Chaux-de-Fonds
Country SUI
Held 6 – 11 October 1998
Competitors 73
Countries 12

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Epée individual Men Medal 4 4
Epée team Men Medal 12 3
Foil individual Men Medal 4 4
Foil team Men Medal 11 3
Sabre individual Men Medal 4 3
Sabre team Men Medal 12 3
Epée individual Women Medal 4 3
Epée team Women Medal 12 3
Foil individual Women Medal 4 3
Foil team Women Medal 12 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 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

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Epée individual, Men Hugues Obry FRA Péter Vánky SWE Carlos Pedroso
Attila Fekete
CUB
HUN
Epée team, Men Hungary HUN France FRA Russia RUS
Foil individual, Men Serhiy Holubytskyi UKR Elvis Gregory CUB Piotr Kiełpikowski
Salvatore Sanzo
POL
ITA
Foil team, Men Poland POL France FRA South Korea KOR
Sabre individual, Men Luigi Tarantino ITA Raffaello Caserta ITA Fernando Medina
Sergey Sharikov
ESP
RUS
Sabre team, Men Hungary HUN France FRA Poland POL
Epée individual, Women Laura Flessel-Colovic FRA Denise Holzkamp GER Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth
Hajnalka Tóth
HUN
HUN
Epée team, Women France FRA Cuba CUB Ukraine UKR
Foil individual, Women Sabine Bau GER Svetlana Boyko RUS Giovanna Trillini
Valentina Vezzali
ITA
ITA
Foil team, Women Italy ITA Romania ROU Poland POL