1987 World Championships in Fencing
Host city	Lausanne, Switzerland
← 1986 Sofia 1988 Orléans →

The 1987 World Fencing Championships were held in Lausanne, Switzerland.^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	3	3	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	0	3
3	France (FRA)	1	1	2	4
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
5	Romania (ROU)	1	1	0	2
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
7	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
8	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Matthias Gey	Matthias Behr	Federico Cervi
Team Foil	West Germany	France	Hungary
Individual Sabre	Jean-François Lamour	György Nébald	Robert Kościelniakowski
Team Sabre	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	France
Individual Épée	Volker Fischer	Andrey Shuvalov	Wilfredo Loyola-Torriente
Team Épée	Soviet Union	West Germany	France

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual Foil	Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan	Zita-Eva Funkenhauser	Jujie Luan
Team Foil	Hungary	Romania	Italy