Fencing World Championships 2004

The 52nd World Fencing Championships took place from June 10th to 13th, 2004 in New York . The United States hosted a World Fencing Championship for the third time after 1958 and 1989 . Since the Summer Olympics took place in Athens in the same year , only the two non-Olympic team competitions in women's florets and women's sabers were held.

The competitions were embedded in a World Cup event . Hunter College served as the venue . The finals took place in the dance hall of the historic Roosevelt Hotel . Athletes from 13 nations took part in the two tournaments.

Ladies

Foil , team

space	country	Sportswomen
1	Italy	Margherita Granbassi , Giovanna Trillini , Valentina Vezzali , Elisa Di Francisca
2	Romania	Laura Badea , Roxana Scarlat , Cristina Stahl
3	Poland	Sylwia Gruchała , Anna Rybicka , Magdalena Mroczkiewicz , Małgorzata Wojtkowiak
4th	Hungary
5	Russia
6th	Germany
7th	France
8th	Japan
9	United States
10	United Kingdom
11	Canada

Date: June 11, 2004

Tournament schedule

	Semifinals					final
		Italy	45
		Hungary	27
							Italy	42
							Romania	28
		Romania	45
		Poland	40
						Battle for bronze
							Poland	44
							Hungary	42

Saber , crew

space	country	Sportswomen
1	Russia	Sofya Velikaya , Yekaterina Fedorkina , Jelena Netschajewa
2	United States	Emma Baratta , Emily Jacobson , Sada Jacobson , Mariel Zagunis
3	France	Anne-Lise Touya , Léonore Perrus , Cécile Argiolas
4th	Romania
5	Poland
6th	Italy
7th	Hungary
8th	People's Republic of China
9	Germany
10	Azerbaijan
11	United Kingdom
12	Japan
13	Canada

Date: June 11, 2004

Tournament schedule

	Semifinals					final
		Russia	45
		France	42
							Russia	45
							United States	43
		United States	45
		Romania	31
						Battle for bronze
							France	44
							Romania	39