1969 World Fencing Championships

International fencing competition 1969 World Championships in Fencing CUB Havana, Cuba 1967 Montreal 1970 Ankara 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.The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records & Results Fencing World Championships, pages 165-167 1987 Guinness Superlatives Ltd 0-85112-492-5 registration https://archive.org/details/guinnessencyclop00matt 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.WCH Ottogalli Six Terret 2010 70 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.WCH Ottogalli Six Terret 2010 71 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 EventImage:Med 1.png GoldImage:Med 2.png SilverImage:Med 3.png Bronze Spadă la individualBohdan Andrzejewski POL 1928 Aleksey Nikanchikov URSCarl von Essen SWE 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 individualFriedrich Wessel FRG Vasyl Stankovych URSRyszard Parulski POL 1928 Floretă pe echipe Viktor PutyatinYury SharovLeonid RomanovVasyl StankovychGerman Sveshnikov Ryszard ParulskiLech KoziejowskiJerzy KaczmarekMarek DąbrowskiWitold Woyda Romania 1965Ion DrîmbăMihai ȚiuȘtefan HauklerIuliu FalbȘtefan Ardeleanu Sabie la individualViktor Sidyak URS János Kalmár HUNPéter Bakonyi HUN Sabie pe echipeViktor SidyakMark RakitaVladimir NazlymovEduard VinokurovUmyar MavlikhanovJerzy PawłowskiJózef NowaraZygmunt KaweckiKrzysztof GrzegorekJanusz MajewskiPéter BakonyiJános KalmárAttila KovácsTamás KovácsMiklós Meszéna Women EventImage:Med 1.png GoldImage:Med 2.png SilverImage:Med 3.png Bronze Floretă la individualElena Novikova URSIleana Drîmbă ROUSvetlana Tširkova URS Floretă pe echipeIleana DrîmbăOlga SzaboMaria VicolAna EneSuzana ArdeleanuAlexandra ZabelinaElena NovikovaSvetlana TširkovaTatyana SamusenkoGalina Gorokhova Katalin KollányiJudit Ágoston-MendelényiÁgnes SimonffyMária SzolnokiIldikó Rejtő Medal table 5 3 1 1 2 1 POL 1928 1 1 1 ROU 1965 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 References Sources FIE Results Ottogalli Cécile Six Gérard Terret Thierry 2010 Un pour tous, tous pour un. L'histoire des championnats du monde d'escrime Paris Le Cherche Midi 978-2-7491-1372-2 70–1 WCH Category:World Fencing Championships F World Fencing Championships Category:1960s in Havana Category:Sports competitions in Havana World Championships World Fencing Championships World Fencing Championships