2017 World Fencing Championships
Host city	Leipzig, Germany
Date(s)	19–26 July
Main venue	Arena Leipzig
Events	12
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2017 World Fencing Championships
Épée	men	women
Team épée	men	women
Foil	men	women
Team foil	men	women
Sabre	men	women
Team sabre	men	women
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The 2017 World Fencing Championships was held at the Arena Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany from 19 to 26 July 2017.^[1]

During the championships there was a demonstration of wheelchair fencing. Russian Ksenia Ovsyannikova was Head of the Promotion Commission of IWAS and Pal Szekeres IWAS Wheelchair Fencing Chairman and Udo Ziegler IWAS Secretary General was also present at the Arena Leipzig Stadium.^[2]

Schedule

Medal summary

Medal table

     Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	4	1	4	9
2	Russia (RUS)	3	0	3	6
3	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	0	3
4	Estonia (EST)	1	1	1	3
	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
6	France (FRA)	1	0	5	6
7	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	1	2
8	United States (USA)	0	2	0	2
9	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
11	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	1	0	1
14	Germany (GER)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		12	12	18	42

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Paolo Pizzo  Italy	Nikolai Novosjolov  Estonia	Richard Schmidt  Germany András Rédli  Hungary
Team épée details	France Yannick Borel Ronan Gustin Daniel Jérent Jean-Michel Lucenay	Switzerland Max Heinzer Georg Kuhn Michele Niggeler Benjamin Steffen	Russia Nikita Glazkov Anton Glebko Sergey Khodos Pavel Sukhov
Individual foil details	Dmitry Zherebchenko  Russia	Toshiya Saito  Japan	Daniele Garozzo  Italy Takahiro Shikine  Japan
Team foil details	Italy Giorgio Avola Andrea Cassarà Alessio Foconi Daniele Garozzo	United States Miles Chamley-Watson Race Imboden Alexander Massialas Gerek Meinhardt	France Jérémy Cadot Enzo Lefort Erwann Le Péchoux Julien Mertine
Individual sabre details	András Szatmári  Hungary	Gu Bon-gil  South Korea	Kamil Ibragimov  Russia Vincent Anstett  France
Team sabre details	South Korea Gu Bon-gil Kim Jun-ho Kim Jung-hwan Oh Sang-uk	Hungary Tamás Decsi Csanád Gémesi András Szatmári Áron Szilágyi	Italy Enrico Berrè Dario Cavaliere Luca Curatoli Luigi Samele

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Tatyana Gudkova  Russia	Ewa Nelip  Poland	Olena Kryvytska  Ukraine Julia Beljajeva  Estonia
Team épée details	Estonia Julia Beljajeva Irina Embrich Erika Kirpu Kristina Kuusk	China Sun Yiwen Sun Yujie Xu Chengzi Zhu Mingye	Poland Renata Knapik-Miazga Ewa Nelip Magdalena Piekarska Barbara Rutz
Individual foil details	Inna Deriglazova  Russia	Alice Volpi  Italy	Arianna Errigo  Italy Ysaora Thibus  France
Team foil details	Italy Martina Batini Arianna Errigo Camilla Mancini Alice Volpi	United States Lee Kiefer Margaret Lu Nzingha Prescod Nicole Ross	Russia Inna Deriglazova Anastasia Ivanova Svetlana Tripapina Adelina Zagidullina
Individual sabre details	Olha Kharlan  Ukraine	Azza Besbes  Tunisia	Irene Vecchi  Italy Cécilia Berder  France
Team sabre details	Italy Martina Criscio Rossella Gregorio Loreta Gulotta Irene Vecchi	South Korea Hwang Seon-a Kim Ji-yeon Seo Ji-yeon Yoon Ji-su	France Cécilia Berder Manon Brunet Charlotte Lembach Caroline Queroli