The 1969 World Fencing Championships were held in Havana, Cuba. The event took place from September 30 to October 12, 1969, at the Ciudad Deportiva Coliseum.
Overview The Havana World championships were the third straight major fencing event held in the Americas after the 1967 edition in Montreal and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. Cuba gave the competition political overtones, including it in the celebrations for the ten years of the Cuban Revolution. Fencing was also stopped on 8 October for a commemoration of the anniversary of Che Guevara's death. The United States, who do not have formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, sent a restricted delegation of 25 fencers. The competition was also marred by numerous failures of the electrical apparatus to the heat and humidity.
On sportive terms, the championships were dominated by countries of the Eastern Bloc, especially the Soviet Union, who claimed all three men's team titles. Romania earned their first women's world title.
Results Men Event Gold Silver Bronze Spadă la individual Spadă pe echipe Aleksey NikanchikovGrigori KrissSergey ParamonovIgor ValetovGeorgi Zažitski Győző KulcsárZoltán NemereCsaba FenyvesiPál SchmittPál B. Nagy Carl von EssenOrvar JönssonHans JacobsonLars-Erik LarssonRolf Edling Floretă la individual Floretă pe echipe Viktor PutyatinYury SharovLeonid RomanovVasyl StankovychGerman Sveshnikov Ryszard ParulskiLech KoziejowskiJerzy KaczmarekMarek DąbrowskiWitold Woyda Ion DrîmbăMihai ȚiuȘtefan HauklerIuliu FalbȘtefan Ardeleanu Sabie la individual Sabie pe echipeViktor SidyakMark RakitaVladimir NazlymovEduard VinokurovUmyar MavlikhanovJerzy PawłowskiJózef NowaraZygmunt KaweckiKrzysztof GrzegorekJanusz MajewskiPéter BakonyiJános KalmárAttila KovácsTamás KovácsMiklós Meszéna
Women Event Gold Silver Bronze Floretă la individual Floretă pe echipeIleana DrîmbăOlga SzaboMaria VicolAna EneSuzana ArdeleanuAlexandra ZabelinaElena NovikovaSvetlana TširkovaTatyana SamusenkoGalina Gorokhova Katalin KollányiJudit Ágoston-MendelényiÁgnes SimonffyMária SzolnokiIldikó Rejtő
Medal table
References
Sources FIE Results