The 1990 World Fencing Championships were held in Lyon, France. The event took place from July 8 to July 16, 1990.
| 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 | Angelo Mazzoni Sandro Cuomo Maurizio Randazzo Sandro Resegotti Stefano Pantano | Olivier Lenglet Éric Srecki Jean-Michel Henry Philippe Riboud Jean-François Di Martino | Pavel Kolobkov Vitali Agueev Andrey Shuvalov Mykhailo Tyshko Kaido Kaaberma |
| Team foil | Andrea Borella Alessandro Puccini Mauro Numa Andrea Cipressa Stefano Cerioni | Piotr Kielpikowski Ryszard Sobczak Leszek Bandach Adam Krzesinski Cezary Siess | Dmitriy Shevchenko Sergei Golubitsky Vladimer Aptsiauri Boris Koretsky Alexandr Romankov |
| Team sabre | Heorhiy Pohosov Grigory Kiriyenko Sergey Mindirgasov Andrey Alshan Samir Ibragimov | György Nébald Bence Szabó Imre Bujdosó Csaba Köves László Csongrádi | Felix Becker Jürgen Nolte Jörg Kempenich Ulrich Eifler Frank Bleckmann |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual épée |  Taymi Chappé | Diana Eöri | Maria Mazina | |
| Individual foil | Giovanna Trillini | Olga Velichko | ||
| Team épée | Mariann Horváth Gyöngyi Szalay Zsuzsanna Szőcs Marina Várkonyi | Saba Amendolara Alessandra Anglesio Laura Chiesa Annalisa Coltorti Elisa Uga | ||
| Team foil | Lucia Traversa Giovanna Trillini Dorina Vaccaroni Margherita Zalaffi | Yelena Grishina Tatyana Sadovskaya Olga Sharkova-Sidorova Olga Velichko | E Jie Liang Jun Sun Hongyun Xiao Aihua |