1969 World Fencing Championships

International fencing competition

1969 World Championships in Fencing

Host city|  Havana, Cuba

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The 1969 World Fencing Championships were held in Havana, Cuba. The event took place from September 30 to October 12, 1969, at the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum.[1]

## Overview

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The Havana World championships were the third straight major fencing event held in the Americas after the 1967 edition in Montreal and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. Cuba gave the competition political overtones, including it in the celebrations for the ten years of the Cuban Revolution. Fencing was also stopped on 8 October for a commemoration of the anniversary of Che Guevara's death.[2] The United States, who do not have formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, sent a restricted delegation of 25 fencers. The competition was also marred by numerous failures of the electrical apparatus to the heat and humidity.[3]

On sportive terms, the championships were dominated by countries of the Eastern Bloc, especially the Soviet Union, who claimed all three men's team titles. Romania earned their first women's world title.

## Results

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### Men

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Event  |  Gold  |  Silver  |  Bronze

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Spadă la individual  |  Bohdan Andrzejewski (POL) |  Aleksey Nikanchikov (URS) |  Carl von Essen (SWE)
Spadă pe echipe  |  Soviet Union
Aleksey Nikanchikov
Grigori Kriss
Sergey Paramonov
Igor Valetov
Georgi Zažitski |  Hungary
Győző Kulcsár
Zoltán Nemere
Csaba Fenyvesi
Pál Schmitt
Pál B. Nagy |  Sweden
Carl von Essen
Orvar Jönsson
Hans Jacobson
Lars-Erik Larsson
Rolf Edling
Floretă la individual  |  Friedrich Wessel (FRG) |  Vasyl Stankovych (URS) |  Ryszard Parulski (POL)
Floretă pe echipe  |  Soviet Union
Viktor Putyatin
Yury Sharov
Leonid Romanov
Vasyl Stankovych
German Sveshnikov |  Poland
Ryszard Parulski
Lech Koziejowski
Jerzy Kaczmarek
Marek Dąbrowski
Witold Woyda |  Romania
Ion Drîmbă
Mihai Țiu
Ștefan Haukler
Iuliu Falb
Ștefan Ardeleanu
Sabie la individual  |  Viktor Sidyak (URS) |  János Kalmár (HUN) |  Péter Bakonyi (HUN)
Sabie pe echipe  |  Soviet Union
Viktor Sidyak
Mark Rakita
Vladimir Nazlymov
Eduard Vinokurov
Umyar Mavlikhanov |  Poland
Jerzy Pawłowski
Józef Nowara
Zygmunt Kawecki
Krzysztof Grzegorek
Janusz Majewski |  Hungary
Péter Bakonyi
János Kalmár
Attila Kovács
Tamás Kovács
Miklós Meszéna

### Women

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Event  |  Gold  |  Silver  |  Bronze

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Floretă la individual  |  Elena Novikova (URS) |  Ileana Drîmbă (ROU) |  Svetlana Tširkova (URS)
Floretă pe echipe  |  Romania
Ileana Drîmbă
Olga Szabo
Maria Vicol
Ana Ene
Suzana Ardeleanu |  Soviet Union
Alexandra Zabelina
Elena Novikova
Svetlana Tširkova
Tatyana Samusenko
Galina Gorokhova |  Hungary
Katalin Kollányi
Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi
Ágnes Simonffy
Mária Szolnoki
Ildikó Rejtő

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Soviet Union (URS)| 5| 3| 1| 9
2|  Poland (POL)| 1| 2| 1| 4
3|  Romania (ROU)| 1| 1| 1| 3
4|  West Germany (FRG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
5|  Hungary (HUN)| 0| 2| 3| 5
6|  Sweden (SWE)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Totals (6 entries)| 8| 8| 8| 24

## References

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1. ^ The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records & Results (1987). Fencing World Championships, pages 165-167. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
2. ^ Ottogalli, Six & Terret 2010, p. 70
3. ^ Ottogalli, Six & Terret 2010, p. 71

## Sources

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* FIE Results
* Ottogalli, Cécile; Six, Gérard; Terret, Thierry (2010). Un pour tous, tous pour un. L'histoire des championnats du monde d'escrime. Paris: Le Cherche Midi. p. 70–1. ISBN 978-2-7491-1372-2. WCH.

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