Fencing World Championships 2012

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The 2012 World Fencing Championships took place in Kiev ( Ukraine ) from April 13-14, 2012, at the Kiev Sports Palace .

Ukraine hosted the World Fencing Championships for the first time. Only the team competitions in women's saber and men's epee were on the program, as these competitions were not included in the program of the 2012 Olympic Games .

Results gentlemen

Epee team

space athlete country
1 Soren Thompson
Weston Kelsey
Cody Mattern
Benjamin Bratton
United StatesUnited States United States
2 Gauthier Grumier
Yannick Borel
Jean-Michel Lucenay
Ulrich Robeiri
FranceFrance FRA
3 Géza Imre
Gábor Boczkó
Péter Somfai
András Rédli
HungaryHungary HUN

14th place: German team
Jörg Fiedler
Martin Schmitt
Stephan Rein
Constantin Böhm

Saturday April 14th 2012

Tournament schedule

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
  FranceFrance  France 45            
RussiaRussia  Russia 36  
FranceFrance  France 28
  ItalyItaly  Italy 27  
PolandPoland  Poland 26th
 
ItalyItaly  Italy 45  
FranceFrance  France 37
  United StatesUnited States  United States 44
United StatesUnited States  United States 25th
 
SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Switzerland 24  
United StatesUnited States  United States 10
Battle for bronze
  HungaryHungary  Hungary 10  
VenezuelaVenezuela  Venezuela 26th ItalyItaly  Italy 37
 
  HungaryHungary  Hungary 33   HungaryHungary  Hungary 45

Results women

Saber crew

space Sportswomen country
1 Sofja Velikaya
Yulia Gavrilova
Ekaterina Dyachenko
Dina Galiakbarova
RussiaRussia RUS
2 Olha Charlan
Olha Shownir
Olena Chomrowa
Halyna Pundyk
UkraineUkraine UKR
3 Mariel Zagunis
Dagmara Wozniak
Daria Schneider
Ibtihaj Muhammad
United StatesUnited States United States

6th place: German team
Alexandra Bujdosó
Stefanie Kubissa
Anna Limbach
Sibylle Klemm

Friday April 13th 2012

Tournament schedule

  Quarter finals Semifinals final
                           
  RussiaRussia  Russia 45            
GermanyGermany  Germany 32  
RussiaRussia  Russia 45
  ItalyItaly  Italy 38  
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  People's Republic of China 21st
 
ItalyItaly  Italy 45  
RussiaRussia  Russia 45
  UkraineUkraine  Ukraine 44
United StatesUnited States  United States 45
 
FranceFrance  France 42  
United StatesUnited States  United States 41
Battle for bronze
  UkraineUkraine  Ukraine 45  
PolandPoland  Poland 40 United StatesUnited States  United States 45
 
  UkraineUkraine  Ukraine 45   ItalyItaly  Italy 36

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 United StatesUnited States United States 1 - 1 2
2 RussiaRussia Russia 1 - - 1
3 FranceFrance France - 1 - 1
4th UkraineUkraine Ukraine - 1 - 1
5 HungaryHungary Hungary - - 1 1
total 2 2 2 6th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Men's epee and women's saber are missing from the 2012 Olympics. Focus.de, November 24, 2009, accessed on March 7, 2013 .
  2. Team World Cup: men's sword team misses target. Deutscher Fechter-Bund , April 15, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2015 .
  3. ResultsTree Championnats du Monde par équipes / Kiev / April 14, 2012 / Senior / Epée / M / Team. (PDF; 56 kB) Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, accessed on March 12, 2013 .
  4. Lady saber team in sixth place at the World Team. Deutscher Fechter-Bund , April 13, 2012, accessed on March 12, 2015 .
  5. ResultsTree Championnats du Monde par équipes / Kiev / 13.04.2012 / Senior / Saber / F / Team. (PDF; 55 kB) Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, accessed on March 12, 2013 .