Bulgarian Plovdiv has let St. Petersburg have a right to conduct the fencing world championship at 2007. Elections of the capital of the world championship were held in the capital of Quatar - Doha during the congress of International Fencing Federation.
Only these two cities were pretending to hold the world championship, the website of Russian Fencing Federation informs. Russian filing was initiated by the company "Saint Petersburg Open" which conducts traditional tennis tournament "Saint Petersburg Open" and some other contests. Russia won with numeral superiority 52:48.
The championship is going to take place in sports-concert group of buildings "Peterburgsky" on September, 2007. There will be 12 sets of medals for contests with sword, rapier and saber, for individual and team duels.
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