The 1990 World Fencing Championships were held in Lyon, France. The event took place from July 8 to July 16, 1990.^{[citation needed]}

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Thomas Gerull	Angelo Mazzoni	Arnd Schmitt
Individual foil	Philippe Omnès	Andrea Borella	Dmitriy Shevchenko
Individual sabre	György Nébald	Heorhiy Pohosov	Tohni Terenzi
Team épée	Italy Angelo Mazzoni Sandro Cuomo Maurizio Randazzo Sandro Resegotti Stefano Pantano	France Olivier Lenglet Éric Srecki Jean-Michel Henry Philippe Riboud Jean-François Di Martino	Soviet Union Pavel Kolobkov Vitali Agueev Andrey Shuvalov Mykhailo Tyshko Kaido Kaaberma
Team foil	Italy Andrea Borella Alessandro Puccini Mauro Numa Andrea Cipressa Stefano Cerioni	Poland Piotr Kielpikowski Ryszard Sobczak Leszek Bandach Adam Krzesinski Cezary Siess	Soviet Union Dmitriy Shevchenko Sergei Golubitsky Vladimer Aptsiauri Boris Koretsky Alexandr Romankov
Team sabre	Soviet Union Heorhiy Pohosov Grigory Kiriyenko Sergey Mindirgasov Andrey Alshan Samir Ibragimov	Hungary György Nébald Bence Szabó Imre Bujdosó Csaba Köves László Csongrádi	West Germany Felix Becker Jürgen Nolte Jörg Kempenich Ulrich Eifler Frank Bleckmann

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée	Taymi Chappé	Diana Eöri	Maria Mazina
Individual foil	Anja Fichtel	Giovanna Trillini	Olga Velichko
Team épée	Germany Eva-Maria Ittner Sabine Krapf Renate Riebandt-Kaspar Monika Ritz Ute Schäper	Hungary Mariann Horváth Gyöngyi Szalay Zsuzsanna Szőcs Marina Várkonyi	Italy Saba Amendolara Alessandra Anglesio Laura Chiesa Annalisa Coltorti Elisa Uga
Team foil	Italy Lucia Traversa Giovanna Trillini Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi	Soviet Union Yelena Grishina Tatyana Sadovskaya Olga Sharkova-Sidorova Olga Velichko	China E Jie Liang Jun Sun Hongyun Xiao Aihua

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	3	3	2	8
2	West Germany (FRG)	3	0	2	5
3	Hungary (HUN)	1	3	0	4
4	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	5	8
5	France (FRA)*	1	1	0	2
6	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	0	1
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
8	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

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