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January 2020 BRITISH FENCING MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 NEW GBR WORLD CHAMPIONS PP4-9 OLYMPIC TEAM MANAGER INTERVIEW PP11-12 DEVELOPMENT UPDATE PP20-26 THE SWORD International Round Up January 2020 | 2 WELCOME TO THE SWORD 4 REPORTS Spotlight on Virginia Bailey, 29 INTERNATIONAL ROUND UP Gilliver Claims First Title as Projects and Programmes Manager Coutya Defends at the 2019 32 REVIEWS Wheelchair Fencing World Championships The Sword Refresh Review of “This is Fencing” by Ziemowit “Ziemek” Great Britain Returns from World Maximising opportunities for Wojciechowski Veterans Championships with Scouts and Leaders th Four Titles 16 Century Rapier Referee Development – Treatise Published 11 FEATURES Bridging the Gap between the 34 OBITUARY An Interview with British Home Nations and British Fencing’s Olympic Team Fencing Harry Jones 1931–2019 Manager 27 ROUND UP 35 RESULTS Jen Bathurst Retires Evie Millar Joins BF Team 14 YOUTH Nominations for BF Honours and GB Youth International Awards 2020 REPORT Development GBR Begin Youth International 17 COACHING Season on Form P6 The Value of Athlete Profiling GBR’S NEW WORLD CHAMPIONS. PHOTOS: VARIOUS Competition Fencing: What are we trying to achieve here? 20 DEVELOPMENT REVISISTING – what makes youth sport fun? Editor: Safeguarding Hotline: Cover photo: Overseas airmail £26 – direct Karim Bashir, British Fencing Liz Behnke, Equality and GBR’s New World Champions from HQ. Contributions are 1 Baron’s Gate, Safeguarding Manager Montage, Various. welcome. Photographs should 33–35 Rothschild Road, M: 07526 003030 include the names of those London W4 5HT British Fencing accepts no pictured and the photographer. T: 020 8742 3032 Typeset by: responsibility for the contents E: [email protected] JS Typesetting Ltd of advertisements and reserves Views expressed in The Sword T: 01656 788551 the right to refuse inclusion. do not necessarily reflect those Print: E: [email protected] of British Fencing. No part of the Cambrian Printers, The Sword, a quarterly magazine may be reproduced Llanbadarn Fawr, Advertising: magazine founded in 1948, without permission from the Aberystwyth, Karim Bashir is distributed to all individual editor/photographer. Ceredigion, SY23 3TN M: 07855 252546 and club members of British T: 01970 613059 E: [email protected] Fencing and its affiliates. Next deadline: 7th February 2020 It can also be obtained on subscription – UK £20. January 2020 | 3 THE SWORD Gilliver Claims First Title as Report Coutya Defends at the 2019 Wheelchair Fencing World Championships By Jo Gilliver When I last wrote in 2018, reviewing what to drop his seeding to seventh but that the pressure was on for him to defend his was a fantastic year for wheelchair fencing did affect him and he stormed through titles! in Great Britain, I had to admit to wondering the elimination stages! A bye through the what 2019 would bring for our fencers, round of 64 was followed by a 15-4 victory He started the day with a solid poule, especially given the added pressure of this over Souza (BRA). Next he took out Betti winning all of his matches gaining a year being in the middle of the qualifying (ITA) 15 – 8 and then notably, despatched seeding of four. This was enough to give period for the Tokyo2020 Games, where nemesis Maxim Shaburov (RUS) 15 – 10 to him a bye to the round of 16, where he every point really does count! make the semi-finals. During that match it destroyed Castro (POL) 15-0! In the next became clear that Piers had no intention round Dimitri beat Naumenko (UKR) 15-7 2019 was always going to be highly of allowing a repeat of 2017! Despite the and went on to clinch his semi-final 15 – 10 pressured. Along with the Paralympic tough draw of Zhong (CHN) a determined against Hu (CHN). The British fencer had to qualifiers, this year was a World performance took him to a 15-12 win and beat Feng (CHN) to defend his title but after Championship year, a biennial event in the a place in the gold medal match. Two a hard fought match he was beaten 15-12 wheelchair fencing calendar. Yet again our years on and another RUS v GBR final. so had to settle for the Cat B Foil Silver this athletes did not disappoint! This time Piers faced Artur Yusupov and it year. was much to the delight of the supporting This year the World Championships were team and Performance Programme coach The next day however, Dimitri returned held in Cheongju, Korea and after weapons Peter Rome, that Piers took the win 15 – 9 to the piste, this time for the Category B & chair check etc, the competition started and his first and much worked for, World Epee. Although his poule results of four on 17 September with multi-World Cup Championship title! victories from six fights (seeded 9) gave medallists Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver everyone supporting him a few nerves, being the ones to watch on the GBR squad he made certain that they had nothing to and they managed, yet again to excel! be concerned about. Dimitri progressed through his early fights with a 15 – 8 win Piers was first to get underway in the over Pluta (POL) and a clear victory over Men’s Cat A Epee and was keen to try to Zhang (CHN) who he beat 15-6 to make better his previous World Championship the quarterfinals. A convincing 15 – 10 bout performances where he took silver in both against Datsko (UKR) put him into the semi- 2015 & 2017. finals where he beat Pranevich (BLR) 15-11. With the title firmly in his sights, it was celebrations all around in the British camp Piers Tops the Podium © Yuka Fujita when a determined Dimitri took the win Piers is the first British Category A fencer 15 – 7 over Hu (CHN) to retain his Cat B Epee to take a World Championship title and World Championship title! he went on to produce an excellent result the next day too in the Men’s Cat A Sabre, taking bronze and bringing home another individual World Championship medal to add to his and the team’s tally. Piers Gilliver in Epee Action © Federazione Italiana Scherma The first day also saw Britain’s reigning His last poule match was one that caused Category B World Champion Dimitri Coutya a little tension for followers at home. take to the piste for the Category B Foil. Having won all of his matches bar one, Dimitri made British history back in 2017 dropping the last hit to Al-Ogali (IRQ) in by becoming the first Brit to become such tight competition was then enough World Champion and a double at that. So Dimitri On Top of the Podium © Yuka Fujita January 2020 | 4 THE SWORD Report It is hard to imagine how these two young up after dropping two fights in his poule that this shows that our sport is working fencers continue to bring home such but managed a win of 15 – 8 over Hebert hard and reaping the results. At the end of brilliant results every time they compete (CAN) in the round of 64 but then lost to the day, it is not just the medals but the and under such pressure. It is reassuring to the strong Russian, Fedyaev to finish 31st. road to getting them and how we develop know that their efforts, along with those of Waddell also found the competition testing our next generation of fencers. One thing the coach & support system around them, and unable to win a poule match, finished is for sure, we have some incredible creates a future for wheelchair fencing. the competition 44th. talent, some exciting fencers next in line, This has only been made possible thanks friends, supportive volunteers and most to the return of UK Sport funding for these It was also not to be for Justine in the Cat B importantly a ‘Great British Team’! individual athletes. Also, whilst self- Ladies Foil finishing 20th after a difficult day funding, it was great to see the younger and Gemma Collis-McCann also suffered and returning fencers of the future come the same fate in the Cat A Ladies Sabre through and compete alongside Piers & finishing 27th. Dimitri at these World Championships. With the Individual events over, we turn The Men’s Cat A Epee also saw Joshua briefly to the team events and for the first Waddell, Oliver Lam-Watson & Matthew time in a long time, GB were able to present Campbell Hill compete. Mixed poule a Men’s team. Being a World Championship, results saw Campbell-Hill make the 64 all three weapons were contested and Waddell and Lam-Watson finishing and we are pleased to report that GBR in the top 32. There was great insight and finished th5 in the foil, 10th in sabre and a experience to be gained from competing in fantastic bronze medal performance in the a competition of this calibre. Men’s Epee Team! What a way to finish what was an absolutely brilliant World Gemma Collis-McCann & 2012 Paralympian Championships for our GB wheelchair Justine Moore who has returned to fencers – Two World Champions! Four individual and one team medal! competitive fencing this season, both also With the Tokyo 2020 making their Tokyo 2020 bid had mixed Paralympics just results but each gained valuable qualifying points! months away GBR Wheelchair Fencing Gemma took to the piste in the Category looks strong! A Ladies Foil and after a mixed poule was ranked 20 going into the direct elimination. Unfortunately she was just edged out, losing 13 – 15 to Maya (RUS), finishing 21st. Justine competed in the Ladies Category B Men’s Team Epee Bronze for Piers, Oliver & Epee and won three of her five poule fights Dimitri © Augusto Bizzi to be ranked 14.
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