European Fencing Championships

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
Number Edition City Country Events
11981Foggia Italy4
21982Mödling Austria4
31983Lisbon Portugal4
41991Vienna Austria10
51992Lisbon Portugal5
61993Linz Austria5
71994Kraków Poland5
81995Keszthely Hungary5
91996Limoges France5
101997Gdańsk Poland5
111998Plovdiv Bulgaria10
121999Bolzano Italy11
132000Funchal Portugal12
142001Koblenz Germany12
152002Moscow Russia12
162003Bourges France12
172004Copenhagen Denmark12
182005Zalaegerszeg Hungary12
192006İzmir Turkey12
202007Ghent Belgium12
212008Kiev Ukraine12
222009Plovdiv Bulgaria12
232010Leipzig Germany12
242011Sheffield Great Britain12
252012Legnano Italy12
262013Zagreb Croatia12
272014Strasbourg France12
282015Montreux  Switzerland12
292016Toruń Poland12
302017Tbilisi Georgia12
312018Novi Sad Serbia12
322019Düsseldorf Germany12
332020Minsk Belarus12
342021Plovdiv Bulgaria12
352022Sochi Russia12

Medal table

Updated after the 2019 European Fencing Championships.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia766767210
2 Italy684881197
3 France354160136
4 Hungary323450116
5 Germany322955116
6 Poland17234181
7 Romania16162658
8 Ukraine13163059
9  Switzerland75921
10 Estonia39921
11 Austria351018
12 Belarus2259
13 Spain2248
14 West Germany2215
15 Great Britain13812
16 Portugal1124
17 Azerbaijan1034
 Georgia1034
19 Israel1012
20 Greece0325
21 Bulgaria0213
22 Belgium0202
23 Sweden0156
24 Netherlands0112
25 Denmark0101
26 Czech Republic0033
27 Czechoslovakia0022
Totals (27 nations)3133134791105
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See also

References
  1. Ottogalli, Six and Théret 2014, p. 91
  2. Ottogalli, Six and Théret 2014, p. 133
  • 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. FIE100.
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