1999 World Fencing Championships

1999 World Championships in Fencing
Dates	November 1 – 8
Host city	Seoul, South Korea
← 1998 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2000 Budapest →

The 1999 World Fencing Championships were held in Seoul, South Korea. The event took place from November 1 to November 8, 1999. It was the first Fencing World Championship in which individual and team women's sabre competitions were held.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Arnd Schmitt	Peter Vanky	Pavel Kolobkov Kaido Kaaberma
Individual Foil	Sergei Golubitsky	Matteo Zennaro	Wolfgang Wienand Kim Young-Ho
Individual Sabre	Damien Touya	Stanislav Pozdnyakov	Jean-Phillippe Daurelle Luigi Tarantino
Team Épée	France Jean-François Di Martino Eric Srecki Hugues Obry Rémy Delhomme	Germany Arnd Schmitt Marc-Konstantin Steifensand Jörg Fiedler Elmar Borrmann	Cuba Iván Trevejo Carlos Pedroso Nilson Loyola Torriente Camilo Boris
Team Foil	France Lionel Plumenail Patrice Lhotellier Jean-Noël Ferrari Jean-Yves Robin	China Wang Haibin Ye Chong Zhang Jie Dong Zhaozhi	Poland Adam Krzesinski Piotr Kielpikowski Slawomir Mocek Wojciech Szuchnicki
Team Sabre	France Damien Touya Jean-Phillippe Daurelle Matthieu Gourdain Julien Pillet	Poland Marcin Sobala Norbert Jaskot Rafal Sznajder Arkadiusz Nowinowski	Russia Stanislav Pozdnyakov Aleksey Frosin Sergey Sharikov Aleksey Dyachenko

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Épée	Laura Flessel-Colovic	Diana Romagnoli	Ildikó Mincza Miraida Garcia-Soto
Individual Foil	Valentina Vezzali	Sabine Bau	Iris Zimmermann Svetlana Boyko
Individual Sabre	Yelena Jemayeva	Ilaria Bianco	Ève Pouteil-Noble Anna Ferraro
Team Épée	Hungary Ildikó Mincza Gyöngyi Szalay Hajnalka Tóth Tímea Nagy	China Yang Shaogi Liang Qin Li Na	Germany Imke Duplitzer Claudia Bokel Kristina Ophardt Katja Nass
Team Foil	Germany Sabine Bau Monika Weber Gesine Schiel Simone Bauer	Poland Sylwia Gruchala Barbara Wolnicka Magdalena Mroczkiewicz Alicja Kryczalo	China Xiao Aihua Meng Jie Yuan Li Shi Haiying
Team Sabre	Italy Ilaria Bianco Anna Ferraro Alessia Tognolli Daniela Colaiacomo	France Ève Pouteil-Noble Cécile Argiolas Anne-Lise Touya Magalie Carrier	Azerbaijan Yelena Jemayeva Anjela Volkova Tatiana Diachenko

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	5	1	2	8
2	Germany (GER)	2	2	2	6
	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
4	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	0	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
6	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
7	China (CHN)	0	2	1	3
	Poland (POL)	0	2	1	3
9	Russia (RUS)	0	1	3	4
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
12	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	2	2
13	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	South Korea (KOR)*	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		12	12	18	42

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