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{{short description|International fencing competition}}
{{World Championships in Fencing
|Name = 2006 World Championships in Fencing
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|Host city ={{flagicon|ITA}} [[Turin]], [[Italy]]
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|Nations participating = 
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|Events =
|dates = September 29 – October 7
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|previous = [[2005 World Fencing Championships|2005 Leipzig]]
|next = [[2007 World Fencing Championships|2007 Saint Petersburg]]
}}
[[Image:Torino2006fencing.png|thumb|Official logo]]
The '''2006 [[FIE World Championships in Fencing|World Fencing Championships]]''' were held at the [[Oval Lingotto]] in [[Turin]], [[Italy]]. The event took place from 29 September to 7 October 2006.

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = ITA
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 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_FRA = 4 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_RUS = 2 | silver_RUS = 0 | bronze_RUS = 3
 | gold_CHN = 2 | silver_CHN = 0 | bronze_CHN = 1
 | gold_ITA = 1 | silver_ITA = 3 | bronze_ITA = 3 | host_ITA = yes 
 | gold_USA = 1 | silver_USA = 2 | bronze_USA = 1
 | gold_HUN = 1 | silver_HUN = 1 | bronze_HUN = 2
 | gold_GER = 1 | silver_GER = 1 | bronze_GER = 1
 | gold_EST = 0 | silver_EST = 1 | bronze_EST = 1
 | gold_UKR = 0 | silver_UKR = 1 | bronze_UKR = 1
 | gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 0
 | gold_POR = 0 | silver_POR = 1 | bronze_POR = 0
 | gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 3 | name_KOR = {{flagteam|KOR|1997}}
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 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|CHN}} [[Wang Lei (fencing)|Wang Lei]] 
| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Joaquim Videira]] 
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Igor Tikhomirov]] <br> {{flagicon|EST}} [[Sven Järve]]
|-
||Foil
| {{flagicon|GER}} [[Peter Joppich]] 
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Andrea Baldini]] 
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Stefano Barrera]] <br> {{flagicon|CHN}} [[Lei Sheng]]
|-
||Sabre
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Stanislav Pozdnyakov]] 
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Zsolt Nemcsik]] 
| {{flagicon|RUS}} [[Aleksey Frosin]] <br> {{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Won Woo-young]]
|-
||Team Épée
| {{FRA}} <br> [[Érik Boisse]]<br> [[Gauthier Grumier]]<br> [[Fabrice Jeannet]]<br> [[Ulrich Robeiri]]
| {{ESP}} <br> [[José Luis Abajo]]<br> [[Ignacio Canto]]<br> [[Juan Castañeda]]<br> [[Eduardo Sepulveda Puerto]]
| {{UKR}} <br> [[Dmytro Chumak (fencer)|Dmytro Chumak]]<br> [[Dmytro Karyuchenko]]<br> [[Maksym Khvorost]]<br> [[Bohdan Nikishyn]]
|-
||Team Foil
| {{FRA}} <br> [[Loïc Attely]]<br> [[Nicolas Beaudan]]<br> [[Erwann Le Péchoux]]<br> [[Marcel Marcilloux]]
| {{GER}} <br> [[Dominik Behr]]<br> [[Richard Breutner]]<br> [[Peter Joppich]]<br> [[Benjamin Kleibrink]]
| {{ITA}} <br> [[Andrea Baldini]]<br> [[Andrea Cassarà]]<br> [[Salvatore Sanzo]]<br> [[Simone Vanni]]
|-
||Team Sabre
| {{FRA}} <br> [[Vincent Anstett]]<br> [[Nicolas Lopez (fencer)|Nicolas Lopez]]<br> [[Julien Pillet]]<br> [[Boris Sanson]]
| {{UKR}} <br> [[Dmytro Boiko]]<br> [[Volodymyr Lukashenko]]<br> [[Oleh Shturbabin]]<br> [[Vladyslav Tretiak]]
| {{RUS}} <br> [[Aleksey Frosin]]<br> [[Nikolay Kovalev (fencer)|Nikolay Kovalev]]<br> [[Stanislav Pozdnyakov]]<br> [[Aleksey Yakimenko]]
|-
|}

===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|HUN}} [[Tímea Nagy]] 
| {{flagicon|EST}} [[Irina Embrich]] 
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Emese Szász]] <br> {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Laura Flessel-Colovic]]
|-
||Foil<br>{{DetailsLink|Women's foil at the 2006 World Fencing Championships}}
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Margherita Granbassi]] 
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Valentina Vezzali]] 
| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Aida Mohamed]] <br> {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Giovanna Trillini]]
|-
||Sabre
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Rebecca Ward]] 
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Mariel Zagunis]] 
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[Sada Jacobson]] <br> {{flagicon|KOR|1997}} [[Kim Hye-lim]]
|-
||Team Épée
| {{CHN}} <br> [[Li Na (fencer)|Li Na]]<br> [[Luo Xiaojuan]]<br> [[Zhang Li (fencer)|Zhang Li]]<br> [[Zhong Weiping]]
| {{FRA}} <br> [[Marysa Baradji-Duchêne]]<br> [[Laura Flessel-Colovic]]<br> [[Hajnalka Kiraly Picot]]<br> [[Maureen Nisima]]
| {{GER}} <br> [[Claudia Bokel]]<br> [[Imke Duplitzer]]<br> [[Britta Heidemann]]<br> [[Marijana Markovic]]
|-
||Team Foil
| {{RUS}} <br> [[Svetlana Boyko (fencer)|Svetlana Boyko]]<br> [[Aida Shanayeva]]<br> [[Julia Khakimova]]<br> [[Ianna Rouzavina]]
| {{ITA}} <br> [[Elisa di Francisca]]<br> [[Margherita Granbassi]]<br> [[Giovanna Trillini]]<br> [[Valentina Vezzali]]
| {{flag|South Korea|1997}} <br> [[Jeon Hee-sook]]<br> [[Jung Gil-ok]]<br> [[Nam Hyun-hee]]<br> [[Seo Mi-jung]]
|-
||Team Sabre
| {{FRA}} <br> [[Cécile Argiolas]]<br> [[Solenne Mary]]<br> [[Léonore Perrus]]<br> [[Anne-Lise Touya]]
| {{USA}} <br> [[Sada Jacobson]]<br> Caitlin Thompson<br> [[Rebecca Ward]]<br>[[Mariel Zagunis]]
| {{RUS}} <br> [[Yekaterina Dyachenko]]<br> [[Ekaterina Fedorkina]]<br> [[Yelena Nechayeva]]<br> [[Sofiya Velikaya]]
|-
|}

==References==
*[http://www.fie.ch/Competitions/Calendar.aspx?results=true FIE Results]
{{World Fencing Championships}}

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