1970 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	Ankara, Turkey
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The 1970 World Fencing Championships were held in Ankara, Turkey.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	4	1	10
2	Hungary (HUN)	2	2	1	5
3	West Germany (FRG)	1	0	0	1
4	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
6	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Friedrich Wessel	Leonid Romanov	Marek Dąbrowski
Team Foil	Soviet Union	Hungary	Romania
Individual Sabre	Tibor Pézsa	Mark Rakita	Vladimir Nazlymov
Team Sabre	Soviet Union	Hungary	Poland
Individual Épée	Aleksey Nikanchikov	Sergey Paramonov	Csaba Fenyvesi
Team Épée	Hungary	Poland	Switzerland

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Galina Gorokhova	Elena Belova	Olga Szabó-Orbán
Team Foil	Soviet Union	Romania	France