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{{Short description|World fencing championship in Portugal}}
{{World Championships in Fencing
|Name = 2002 World Championships in Fencing
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|Host city ={{flagicon|POR}} [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]
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|dates = August 18 – August 23
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|previous = [[2001 World Fencing Championships|2001 Nîmes]]
|next = [[2003 World Fencing Championships|2003 Havana]]
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The '''2002 [[FIE World Championships in Fencing|World Fencing Championships]]''' were held in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]. The event took place from August 18 to August 23, 2002.

==Overview==
Lisbon obtained the right to organize the championships over [[Bari]], Italy. The event was first to take place from August 12 to August 18, but was reported a week later at the request of the main sponsor and of the television stations, which feared poor audience figures.<ref>{{harvnb|id=WCH|Ottogalli|Six|Terret|2010|p=131}}</ref>

84 countries–a record at the time–took part in the championships. The competition saw the clear domination of Russia, who came away with nine medals, including six golds. [[Stanislav Pozdniakov]] and [[Svetlana Boyko (fencer)|Svetlana Boyko]] obtained a double gold haul respectively in men's sabre and women's foil. Boiko shared the podium with teammate [[Yekaterina Yusheva]], who in quarter-finals had put an end to [[Valentina Vezzali]]'s streak of gold medals in 1999, 2000, and 2001.<ref>{{harvnb|id=FIE|Safra|2002|p=27}}</ref> [[Pavel Kolobkov]] earned a gold medal in men's épée, eight years after his last major title and with a very limited preparation: he was then working as a fencing coach in Boston and rarely took part in [[Fencing World Cup]] events.<ref>{{harvnb|id=FIE|Safra|2002|p=26}}</ref> Russia also prevailed in women's team sabre, overcoming Hungary in the final. Ironically, these two countries were the most adamant against the introduction of women's sabre at the Olympics.<ref>{{harvnb|id=FIE|Safra|2002|p=27}}</ref>

The Lisbon championships proved however a disappointment for France, whose medals tally dropped from ten at [[2001 World Fencing Championships|Nîmes 2001]] to five. The French preparation for the championships had been affected by a personal conflict between [[Philippe Omnès]], director of fencing of the [[French Fencing Federation|French federation]], and Christian Bauer, national coach for sabre, as well as the positive drugs test of [[Laura Flessel-Colovic]] a few days before the competition.<ref>{{harvnb|id=WCH|Ottogalli|Six|Terret|2010|p=132}}</ref> France boasted only one gold medal in men's team épée, won against Russia.

The remaining medals were relatively spread out between other nations. Romania claimed three bronze medals: one in women's team foil, [[Laura Badea-Cârlescu|Laura Badea]]'s first medal after her return from maternity leave, one in men's sabre for Olympic champion [[Mihai Covaliu]] and one in women's épée for 17-year-old [[Ana Maria Brânză]].<ref>{{harvnb|id=FIE|Safra|2002|p=28}}</ref> The main surprise however was the growing power of Asian fencing: Korea's [[Hyun Hee]] defeated successively favourites Laura Flessel and [[Imke Duplitzer]] to earn the gold in women's épée, while China's [[Tan Xue]] claimed the title after seeing of previous incumbents [[Anne-Lise Touya]] and [[Elena Jemayeva]].<ref>{{harvnb|id=WCH|Ottogalli|Six|Terret|2010|p=132–4}}</ref>

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
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 | gold_RUS = 6 | silver_RUS = 2 | bronze_RUS = 1
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 3 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 2 | bronze_GER = 2
 | gold_HUN = 1 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 2
 | gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 1 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_CHN = 1 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 2
 | gold_KOR = 1 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 2 | name_KOR = {{flagteam|KOR|1997}}
 | gold_AZE = 0 | silver_AZE = 1 | bronze_AZE = 1
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 1
 | gold_EST = 0 | silver_EST = 1 | bronze_EST = 0
 | gold_ROU = 0 | silver_ROU = 0 | bronze_ROU = 3
 | gold_BLR = 0 | silver_BLR = 0 | bronze_BLR = 1 | name_BLR = {{flagteam|BLR|1995}}
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 1
}}


==Medal summary==
===Men's events===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="100" |Event
! style="background-color:gold;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold
! style="background-color:silver;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 2.png]] Silver
! style="background-color:#CC9966;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 3.png]] Bronze
|-
||Épée
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Pavel Kolobkov]] 
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Fabrice Jeannet]] 
| {{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Ku Kyo-dong]] <br> {{flagicon|BLR|variant=1995}} [[Vitaly Zakharov]]
|-
||Foil
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Simone Vanni]] 
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Andre Wessels]] 
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Piotr Kielpikowski]] <br> {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Wu Hanxiong]]
|-
||Sabre
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Stanislav Pozdnyakov]] 
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Julien Pillet]] 
| {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Mihai Covaliu]] <br> {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Luigi Tarantino]]
|-
||Team Épée
| {{FRA}}<br>[[Benoît Janvier]]<br>[[Fabrice Jeannet]]<br>[[Jean-Michel Lucenay]]<br>[[Hugues Obry]]
| {{RUS}}<br>[[Pavel Kolobkov]]<br>[[Sergey Kochetkov]]<br>[[Aleksey Selin]]<br>[[Vyacheslav Selin]]
| {{flag|South Korea|1997}}<br>[[Gu Gyo-Dong]]<br>[[Kim Jeong-Gwan]]<br>[[Lee Sang-Yeop]]<br>[[Yang Roy-Sung]]
|-
||Team Foil
|{{GER}}<br>[[Ralf Bißdorf]]<br>[[Dominik Behr]]<br>[[André Weßels]]<br>[[Lars Schache]]
|{{FRA}}<br>[[Brice Guyart]]<br>[[Loïc Attely]]<br>[[Jean-Noël Ferrari]]<br>[[Franck Boidin]]
|{{ESP}}<br>[[Javier Menéndez]]<br>[[Luis Caplliure]]<br>[[José Francisco Guerra]]<br>[[Javier García Delgado]]
|-
||Team Sabre
|{{RUS}}<br>[[Aleksey Dyachenko]]<br>[[Aleksey Yakimenko]]<br>[[Stanislav Pozdniakov]]<br>[[Sergey Sharikov]]
|{{ITA}}<br>[[Giampiero Pastore]]<br>[[Giacomo Guidi]]<br>[[Aldo Montano (fencer born 1978)|Aldo Montano]]<br>[[Luigi Tarantino]]
|{{GER}}<br>[[Dennis Bauer]]<br>[[Michael Herm]]<br>[[Harald Stehr]]<br>[[Alexander Weber]]
|-
|}

===Women's events===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="100" |Event
! style="background-color:gold;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 1.png]] Gold
! style="background-color:silver;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 2.png]] Silver
! style="background-color:#CC9966;" width="200" |[[Image:Med 3.png]] Bronze
|-
||Épée
| {{flagicon|KOR|variant=1997}} [[Hyun Hee]] 
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Imke Duplitzer]] 
| {{flagicon|ROU}} [[Ana Maria Brânză]] <br> {{flagicon|GER}} [[Britta Heidemann]]
|-
||Foil
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Svetlana Boyko (fencer)|Svetlana Boyko]] 
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Yekaterina Yusheva]] 
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Edina Knapek]] <br> {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Aida Mohamed]]
|-
||Sabre
| {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Tan Xue]] 
| {{flagicon|AZE}} [[Yelena Jemayeva]] 
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Cécile Argiolas]] <br> {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Yelena Nechayeva]]
|-
||Team Épée
|{{HUN}}<br>[[Hajnalka Kiraly]]<br>[[Tímea Nagy]]<br>[[Hajnalka Tóth]]
|{{EST}}<br>[[Maarika Võsu]]<br>[[Irina Embrich]]<br>[[Olga Aleksejeva]]<br>[[Heidi Rohi]]
|{{CHN}}<br>[[Luo Xiaojuan]]<br>[[Li Na (fencer)|Li Na]]<br>[[Shen Weiwei]]<br>[[Zhong Weiping]]
|-
||Team Foil
|{{RUS}}<br>[[Svetlana Boyko (fencer)|Svetlana Boyko]]<br>[[Yekaterina Yusheva]]<br>[[Julia Khakimova]]<br>[[Olga Lobyntseva]]
|{{POL}}<br>[[Sylwia Gruchała]]<br>[[Magdalena Mroczkiewicz]]<br>[[Anna Rybicka]]<br>[[Małgorzata Wojtkowiak]] 
|{{ROU}}<br>[[Laura Badea-Cârlescu|Laura Badea]]<br />[[Roxana Scarlat]]<br />[[Cristina Stahl]]<br />[[Reka Szabo]]
|-
||Team Sabre
|{{RUS}}<br>[[Yelena Nechayeva]]<br>[[Margarita Zhukova]]<br>[[Irina Bazhenova]]<br>[[Natalia Makeyeva]]
|{{HUN}}<br>[[Edina Csaba]]<br>[[Orsolya Nagy]]<br>[[Annamária Nagy]]<br>[[Gabriella Sznopek]]
|{{AZE}}<br>[[Yelena Amirova]]<br>[[Yelena Jemayeva]]<br>[[Anzhela Volkova]]<br>[[Yana Siukayeva]]
|-
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
*[http://www.fie.ch/Competitions/Calendar.aspx?results=true FIE Results]
* {{cite book |last1=Ottogalli |first1=Cécile |last2=Six |first2=Gérard |last3=Terret |first3=Thierry |year=2010 |title=Un pour tous, tous pour un. L'histoire des championnats du monde d'escrime|location=Paris|publisher=Le Cherche Midi|isbn=978-2-7491-1372-2|page=31–4|id=WCH}}
* {{cite journal|last=Safra|first=Jean-Marie|title=The Russian flag flew over Lisbon|url=http://issuu.com/fiemagazine/docs/41-2002 |journal=Escrime Internationale|issue=41|date=2002|pages=25–9|id=FIE}}

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