European Fencing Championships

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European Fencing Championships
Statusactive
Frequencyannual
Inaugurated1981 (1981)
Most recent2023
Organised byEuropean Fencing Confederation
Websiteeurofencing.info

The European Fencing Championships is an annual top-level European fencing competition organized by the European Fencing Confederation.

History

The first competition bearing the name of "European Fencing Championships" was held in Paris in 1921. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) comprised only European federations at the time, with the exception of the United States. In 1936, on the 25th anniversary of the FIE and at the request of the Italian federation, the FIE congress decided to open the European Championships to all countries and granted retroactive recognition of the European Championships as World Championships.[1]

After 1937 the FIE focused on the organisation of the World Fencing Championships. Demand for European Championships appeared at the 1979 congress, but it was rejected on the ground that they would either belittle the World Championships or offer a poor fencing level. The question was put forth again the following year by the Yugoslav federation, with the support of the Italian federation, which offered to organize the first competition. The congress agreed to authorize such championships, on the condition that they would be held only when the World Championships were organized in a non-European country. The first edition took place in Foggia, Italy on 11 and 12 November 1981. They proved to cause no interference with the 1981 World Championships and the restriction was lifted.[2]

Formula

Contrary to the World Championships and the World Cup, no exemption is granted to Top 16 fencers: all fence a round of pools, which eliminates 20% to 30% of participants. The remaining fencers compete in a direct elimination table.

Editions

Editions of European Fencing Championships

1 2020 and 2021 European Fencing Championships were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Medal table

Last updated after the 2023 European Fencing Championships.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy776090227
2 Russia766766209
3 France434769159
4 Hungary343651121
5 Germany332961123
6 Poland17234585
7 Romania16162658
8 Ukraine14173263
9  Switzerland761124
10 Estonia391022
11 Austria351018
12 Georgia3036
13 Belarus2259
14 Spain2248
15 West Germany2215
16 Azerbaijan2035
17 Great Britain13812
18 Portugal1124
19 Israel1113
20 Greece0336
21 Bulgaria0213
 Netherlands0213
23 Belgium0202
24 Sweden0156
25 Denmark0101
26 Czech Republic0033
27 Czechoslovakia0022
 Turkey0022
Totals (28 entries)3373375151189

Multiple gold medalists

Boldface denotes active fencers and highest medal count among all fencers (including these who not included in these tables) per type.

Men

All events

Rank Fencer Country Weapon From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Aleksey Yakimenko  Russia Sabre 2003 2017 13 5 5 23
2 Stanislav Pozdnyakov  Russia Sabre 1994 2008 13 4 17
3 Andrea Cassarà  Italy Foil 2002 2019 10 4 1 15
4 Andrea Baldini  Italy Foil 2004 2016 8 2 5 15
5 Gábor Boczkó  Hungary Épée 1997 2015 7 5 3 15
6 Géza Imre  Hungary Épée 1998 2013 6 4 2 12
7 Aleksey Frosin  Russia Sabre 1997 2008 6 1 2 9
8 Yannick Borel  France Épée 2011 2022 6 1 1 8
9 Aldo Montano  Italy Sabre 2002 2019 5 5 1 11
10 Erwann Le Péchoux  France Foil 2003 2019 5 3 2 10

Individual events

Rank Fencer Country Weapon From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Aleksey Yakimenko  Russia Sabre 2003 2016 5 4 3 12
2 Stanislav Pozdnyakov  Russia Sabre 1994 2007 5 2 7
3 Andrea Cassarà  Italy Foil 2002 2015 4 1 5
4 Yannick Borel  France Épée 2016 2022 4 4
5 Gábor Boczkó  Hungary Épée 1997 2015 3 1 2 6
6 Andrea Baldini  Italy Foil 2005 2013 3 3 6
7 Pavel Kolobkov  Russia Épée 1996 2006 2 3 4 9
8 Daniele Garozzo  Italy Foil 2015 2022 2 3 5
9 Aleksey Cheremisinov  Russia Foil 2011 2019 2 2 2 6
10 Max Hartung  Germany Sabre 2011 2019 2 1 2 5

Women

All events

Rank Fencer Country Weapon From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Sofya Velikaya  Russia Sabre 2003 2019 14 6 3 23
2 Valentina Vezzali  Italy Foil 1993 2015 13 4 4 21
3 Elisa Di Francisca  Italy Foil 2004 2019 13 2 3 18
4 Arianna Errigo  Italy Foil 2009 2022 12 3 4 19
5 Olha Kharlan  Ukraine Sabre 2005 2022 8 7 6 21
6 Ana Maria Popescu (Brânză)  Romania Épée 2006 2016 7 4 2 13
7 Simona Gherman (Alexandru)  Romania Épée 2008 2016 7 1 2 10
8 Yekaterina Dyachenko  Russia Sabre 2006 2016 6 4 1 11
9 Yelena Nechayeva  Russia Sabre 2000 2007 6 3 2 11
10 Yana Egorian  Russia Sabre 2013 2019 6 1 7

Individual events

Rank Fencer Country Weapon From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Olha Kharlan  Ukraine Sabre 2006 2019 6 1 1 8
2 Valentina Vezzali  Italy Foil 1993 2014 5 3 2 10
3 Sofya Velikaya  Russia Sabre 2005 2019 5 3 1 9
4 Elisa Di Francisca  Italy Foil 2006 2019 5 1 1 7
5 Laura Badea-Cârlescu  Romania Foil 1993 2004 3 2 2 7
6 Sylwia Gruchała  Poland Foil 2000 2005 3 3
7 Arianna Errigo  Italy Foil 2009 2022 2 2 3 7
8 Inna Deriglazova  Russia Foil 2010 2019 2 2 1 5
9 Sabine Bau  Germany Foil 1992 2001 2 1 1 4
Yekaterina Fedorkina  Russia Sabre 2004 2008 2 1 1 4

See also

References

  • Ottogalli, Cécile; Six, Gérard; Terret, Thierry (2013). L'Histoire de l'escrime. 1913–2013, un siècle de Fédération internationale d'escrime. Biarritz: Atlantica. ISBN 978-2-7588-0485-7.

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