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About the championshipSt. Petersburg will host the 2006/2007 World Fencing Championship from 28 September to 7 October, 2007. It is the second time that the Championship comes to Russia; in 1966 it was hosted by Moscow. Athletes from over 100 countries will come to St. Petersburg to take part in the competition (85 countries took part in the previous World Championship in Turin). 12 disciplines will be on the World Championship program:
Each new World Fencing Championship brings in something new. The event last year in Turin was the first World Fencing Championship where paraolympic athletes competed alongside their full-bodied counterparts. This year, at the 50th World Fencing Championship, new fencing rules will apply, adopted at the FIE congress in Lausanne in February and tested at the St. Petersburg Foil leg of the World Cup. First of all, points will be registered by a wireless system. Second, each participant will be entitled to two video reruns per combat. Competition for awards is growing by year due to the fact that there are ever more countries where fencing has reached a very high level. When the World Fencing Championship was founded, before the Soviet school was born, Italians, Frenchmen, Hungarians and later Poles and Rumanians had been leaders in world fencing. From the 1960s till the collapse of the USSR, Soviet athletes had no equals. Russia has been lately returning to the top, altough Italian and French athletes are sticking to their positions. Alongside traditional leaders, representatives of China, South Korea and the US now also win Championship awards. |
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