1979 World Fencing Championships

1979 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	Melbourne, Australia
← 1978 Hamburg 1981 Clermont-Ferrand →

The 1979 World Fencing Championships were held in Melbourne, Australia.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	2	1	9
2	West Germany (FRG)	1	1	2	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
4	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
6	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Alexandr Romankov	Pascal Jolyot	Fabio Dal Zotto
Team Foil	Soviet Union	Italy	West Germany
Individual Sabre	Vladimir Nazlymov	Viktor Krovopuskov	Mikhail Burtsev
Team Sabre	Soviet Union	Italy	Poland
Individual Épée	Philippe Riboud	Ernő Kolczonay	Leszek Swornowski
Team Épée	Soviet Union	West Germany	Switzerland

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Cornelia Hanisch	Valentina Sidorova	Ildikó Schwarczenberger
Team Foil	Soviet Union	Hungary	West Germany

References