October 2011 £5.00

October 2011 £5.00

New Series No.101 October 2011

Front Cover: Bolade Apithy (FRA) launches an attack against Gyorgi Szilagyi (HUN) in the semi-finalsofthe European men’ssabre championship [Getty Images]

FENCING NEWS 5

LONDON 2012 ORGANISATION 10 Malcolm Fare talks to Olympic and Paralympic Games manager Hilary Philbin about the organisation of 2012

1BaronʼsGate, 33 Rothschild Road, London W4 5HT,Tel: 0208 742 3032, LONDON 2012 UPDATE14 Fax: 0208 742 3033. Website: http//www.BritishFencing.com Hilary Philbin explains the build up to the Games e-mail: [email protected] President: Keith Smith Chief Executive: Piers Martin EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 16 Chairman: David Teasdale Malcolm Fare reports on the first European championships to be held in Britain

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British Fencing accepts no responsibility for the contents of advertisements and reserves the right to refuse inclusion. YOUNG FENCER 43 UK School Games,Refereeing course,Coach moves on The Sword,aquarterly magazine founded in 1948, is distributed to all individual and club members of British Fencing and its affiliates. It can also be RESULTS 46 obtained on subscription –UK£20 Overseas airmail £26 –direct from HQ. Contributions are welcome. Photographs should includethe names of those pictured and the photographer. Views expressed in The Sword do not Next deadline: 21 November necessarily reflect those of British Fencing. No part of the magazine may be reproduced without permission from The the editor/photographer. SWORD 3

Fencing News

CHAIRMAN’S How are we doing? It’swell known that BFAhas been short of ‘Green’ in the recent past. Lower rankings are dangerous for us; REPORT they mean much reduced funding and thus little chance of hitting Grow or Gold. We are making progress.I’m confident the next How do Istart my first report in January will carry good tidings.The same for Grow, Chairman’sreport? I where we are about to try new ways to boost demand for fencing. guess,bysaying what I plan to do with this TheGold agenda has created controversy over selection policy. column. So,onbehalf of Nothing new there,you might say –everyone’saselector! The the Board, this report will Board endorsed the Action Plan of our new Performance Manager, deal with current and big Alex Newton, which encompassed aselection policy based on issues affecting our picking for the world championships ateam with genuine management of the sport and potential, if smaller than in the past. Theaim is gold, in 2012 the progress against the key and/or 2016. Some critics think we are aiming too high, we are objectives. unrealistic. Maybe we are.But, for the first time,weare giving our top fencers world-class support; some won’t come through, but By now,you all know we have a3Gstrategy.This means Green – some will be trained and motivated to perform at new levels. to be an effective governing body,operating fairly and properly, Some critics would takelots of fencers to big events.That isn’t the meeting the governance standards now applying to the governing Board’spolicy.Wewant to concentrate resources on fencers in bodies of all UK sports; Grow –toget more people fencing, more epee, or sabre who have real world-class potential. often; and Gold –towin the right colour medals at . One last thing –this BF Board runs atransparent house.Ifyou have comments,ideas,complaints,questions,let us hear them.We These are not new targets.They are not different from most sports. are ever open to opinion, argument, even approval! My own But what’snew and different is we have aclear direction, with mobile number is below. clear focus –and this strategy provides very clear ways for David Teasdale members to judge our performance. Chair,British Fencing 07803 891623

TEAM SELECTION HONOURS TheBoard has given Alex Newton responsibility for selection and for TheBFA Honours Committee has awarded the following honours: this year’sworld championships she has followed the current Silver Medal –Philip Marsh, Ismay &Steve Cowen selection policy.Tobeeligible for automatic selection, individual Bronze Medal –John Anderson, Chris Howser,Brian Matless, fencers had to achieve at least one L8 or two L16 results from World Lynden Taylor Cups or the most recent world/European championships,and teams AwardofMerit –Beth Davidson, Graham Langton, Ken had to be in the top 12 of the world cup team rankings –all in the McCubbin, Tim O’Conor,Shirley Parker 12 months prior to the selection date. Goblet –Sue Benney Tankard –Kristjan Archer,RichardKruse,Men’sFoil Team (Richard Based on the 3G strategy,she selected the following for the 2011 Kruse,Laurence Halsted, Ed Jefferies,Marcus Mepstead +Ziemek world championships in , 9-16 October: Wojciechowski),Junior Men’sFoil Team (James Davis,Jamie Men’sFoil –RichardKruse,Laurence Halsted &Team (RK, LH, Fitzgerald, Husayn Rosowsky,Alex Tofalides +Maciej Wojtkowiak) Jamie Kenber,EdJefferies; James Davis reserve) Women’sFoil Team –Anna Bentley,Martina Emanuel, Natalia Sheppard, Sophie Troiano; ClaireBennett reserve Women’sEpee –Corinna Lawrence; Mary Cohen reserve Men’sSabre –James Honeybone,Alex O’Connell Women’sSabre –Chrystall Nicoll, Sophie Williams &Team (CN, SW,Louise Bond-Williams,Joanna Hutchison; Katherine Kempe reserve) Fencing is one of the sports After appeals,the following were added: featured in the last of three Men’sEpee –Jon Willis sets of ten Olympic stamps Women’sEpee Team –CL, Sissi Albini, Jenny McGeever, Georgina issued by the Royal Mail. Usher Designed by British artist Lyndon Hayes, it is one of Junior epee world champion Philip Marsh will join the British team as 30 stamps marking the fact an observer and sparring partner for Jon Willis. that this is the 30th Olympiad.

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ENGINEERING PRIZE FOR FENCING ‘community’, in this case ahigh profile group of athletes CENTRE and engineers. Students from Penair School in Truro have beaten 200 Theteam’sdesign for aCornwall National Fencing Centre other teams from across the UK to win an engineering costing £2.5m featured aflexible grid-shell roof and prize with their innovative proposal for anational fencing factored in plans to use rainwater for the stadium’s centre.Create Sport, acompetition run by the Institution of facilities,including showers and flushing toilets,aswell as Civil Engineers,consulting engineers Arup and the solar energy to power the venue.Local fencer James Engineering Development Trust, challenged 12-13 year olds Honeybone advised on the centre’sspecification. across the country to plan, design and construct amodel for anew sports venue in their region. Proposals had to Theproject waspart ofTruro Fencing Club’scontinuing initiative takeinto account all the engineering considerations of a to involve young fencers and parents in the development of real life project, such as environmental and community fencing in Cornwall. Since beginning fundraising in 2006, impact, planning and safety requirements.The team from the TFC Gold Foundation has raised almost £300,000, Truro triumphed in the final mock public inquiry where money that is used to fund aSabre Performance Programme they were required to defend their project to the and develop plans to build atop-class fencing facility.

Penair students with amodel of their design for aCornwall National Fencing Centre

Janet Huggins became the 16th recipient of Salle Joseph’s Hebden Cup at an award ceremony held before the test event for London 2012 at Crystal Palace. The Cup, which seeks to recognise “services to fencing”, was presented to her by the Salle’s president Joe Gibbons for her outstanding contribution to the sport both as acoach and as an armourer of some repute. Janet is pictured with her fellow armourers: (from left) David Lichfield, Simon Axon, Rob Kirby and Peter Huggins.

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DURHAM OPENS PURPOSE-BUILT 19th century German Korbschlager SALLE Following John McGrath’s’ excellent article on Student Duelling in Heidelberg in the January issue,readers may After 8years planning, Durham University’spurpose- be interested in the following acquisition. Arare 19th built fencing salle opens officially in October.Part of the century Korbschlager,the weapon used by German University’sGraham Sports Centre at Maiden Castle in student fighting fraternities in the ritualised duelling Durham City,the eight-piste (four metal) salle has encounter known as the Mensur,was found in aWest wall-mounted scoring equipment and is fully air- Country auction. Catalogued as an 18th/19th century conditioned. practice sword with blunted end a/f (as found), which in auctioneers’ speak means it wasindamaged or poor Head coach Laszlo Jakab will direct the new programme condition, the sword has adiamond shaped 34-inch blade for student teams and the Regional Fencing Centre,which and alarge felt covered basket guard complete with offers weapon-specific training for performance fencers, original grip and leather finger loop.Some sympathetic coach development and beginners’ courses for all. Prof. restoration wasrequired as the felt wasdetached in parts, Jakab said, “This is agreat opportunity for fencing in the the shagreen grip loose and the blade covered in rust. Region. We now have an environment which is only about Cleaning revealed the maker’smark stamped on the fencing, with no limitation in the training and preparation ricasso –aknight’shead, which wasused by Carl of our best fencers.” Reinhard Kirschbaum (1814-1862) of Solingen. Thename still exists as part of Weyersberg, Kirschbaum &Co(WKC), In the future,this full-time facility will play host to the British the largest manufacturer of swords in the world.Thevalue Fencing National Academy –Sports Universities North East of any sword at auction is devalued if it is considered that England (SUNEE), apartnership between British Fencing and the blade has been shortened and the blunted end of the the five universities in the North East. diamond shaped blade,correct and original in Korbschlagers,may have put off potential bidders.The Formore information about the Regional Fencing Centre – sword wassecured with abid of £120 (£145 with Durham, contact Carole Seheult commission) and the current market price is estimated at [email protected]. £350-£450. ■ RichardBonehill

100 YEARS AGO Ladies’ assault-at-arms In 1911 the first international assault-at-arms by lady fencers took place in in aid of ‘gentlewomen in reduced circumstances’. English, Belgian, French and Swiss fencers took part. Thehighlight wasadisplay between Julia Johnstone,reigning English champion and winner of the first ladies’ international Challenge Cup in Kirschbaum korbschlager and knight’s head mark , and Millicent Hall, Britain’sfirst lady champion. The Field pointed out that “fencing among women has not made as much progress in as in this country…”

COLLECTORS’ CORNER 18th century Fencing Room An early 18th century fencing room is identified on the plan of aconveyance document that came up for sale at Mullocks of Ludlow.Dated 1734, it shows asmall building newly erected just off Fleet Street, London, by abricklayer, Moses Westbrook, and acarpenter,William Newman; they sold the property,which covered an area just 43ft (13m) square and wasdivided by an open passage,toCharles Hoker of Greenwich.

Thefencing room measures only 22ft x19ft (6.7m x5.8m) and has acoffee room adjoining with ayard outside. When this contract wasdrawn up,fencing still had a dubious reputation as an activity practised by prize fighters before agambling public. Thesmall premises suggests that it might also have been used for boxing and cudgel fights.The document wasunsold at £150.

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elcome to the new style News.David Teasedale will aweek later by the senior British championships) and the from now on explain Board policy and communicate women’ssabre World Cup in February.The Cadet and W it to the membership.MyNews is designed to Junior Europeans are being combined for the first time in explain what is happening in fencing at home and abroad March in Porec, Croatia, and the Cadet and Junior Worlds and thank those who makeareal difference to our sport. will be in in April. Iwill represent the BFAatthe FIE Congress in Philadelphia in December. INTERNATIONAL British Fencing successfully organised the European OLYMPIC GAMES Championships in Sheffield. It wasgood to see large It is great to see how many people have volunteered for audiences for the finals and my thanks to UK Sport and London 2012. TheOlympic qualification process is now in Yorkshire Forward for their financial support. Katie Dolan, full swing and ends in March.TheEuropean zone qualifiers Johnny Davis and John Timms were all excellent and very takeplace in April and then the host nation quota places will much appreciated by the foreign delegations.Myparticular be selected on the proposal of our Performance Manager. thanks to Rochelle Dazeley who ran the superb team of volunteers.Without them the championships would not have been able to takeplace.Atthe World University YOUTH FENCING Games,Huseyn Rosowsky wasanexcellent 6th and Alex Iwas glad that the UKSG in Sheffield were once again a O’Connell made the top 16. Britain topped the medal table success and that the National Academy has continued to at the European veterans championships and Graham improve this year,showing our younger fencers how to Paul, Richard Cohen, Silvia Earl, Carol Wengraf and Janet prepare to be real athletes and how to maximise their Cooksey all won gold medals,Janet collecting two. potential. It wasalso excellent news that the FIE have awarded Philip Marsh $1500 in recognition of his PUBLICITY AND COMMUNICATIONS becoming Junior World Champion. It wasgood to see Sky Sport covering the European championships and to see Laurence Halsted featured in a AGM recent Arsenal programme as apotential Olympian. I TheAGM will be held on 29th October and it is vital that would also liketothank the European Confederation for members wishing to express views,ask questions or their financial help with TV coverage. generally have asay attend. It is your chance to question those who run your sport. WHEELCHAIR FENCING Iremain totally committed to doing my best for fencing. I Iwas pleased that the European wheelchair championships want to thank the multitude of volunteers at all levels who were fully integrated in Sheffield and that able-bodied remain passionately committed to our sport and would like fencers travelled to Bath to help our potential Paralympians to single out Peter and Janet Huggins and all the armoury with their training. It washeart warming to see the reception team, Malcolm Fare who has edited The Sword unpaid for that Caz Walton received from all the domestic and many years and Penny Spink who successfully promotes international representatives at the official dinner when I fencing in many unseen ways and gets grants for our announced she had won ten Paralympics gold medals in younger fencers.These are just examples of so many three sports. people who give much time and effort and who really love fencing. FORTHCOMING INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Ihope you all have ahappy and successful season. ■ An Olympic test event will be held on 26/27 November.We will also host the Eden Cup and Leon Paul International Keith Smith foil tournaments at the beginning of December (followed [email protected]

The 8 SWORD HEREFORD &WORCESTER OPEN 3rd/4th December 2011

VENUE: ThornsLeisure Centre, Stockwell Avenue, offAcres Road,Quarry Bank Brierley Hill, West Midlands, DY5 2NU Tel: 01384 816229

EVENTSLatest report time Saturday 3rd December MenʼsEpee 08.30 WomenʼsEpee 10.00 WomenʼsSabre 12.30 Sunday 4th December MenʼsFoil 08.30 WomenʼsFoil 09.30 MenʼsSabre 11.30

ENTRYFEE: £20 per weapon until the closingdate. No refunds after the closing date. Enter ONLINE or by post.

CLOSING DATE: 14th November 2011. Entry numbers will be limited. Late entries: £8 extra per weapon accepted at the organisersʼ discretion till 28th November.Entries after that only accepted if double fees are paid in cash at the venue at least 30 minutes before latest report time.

NOTES:BFA membership will be checked. BFArules (subject to organisersʼ discretion). Best Cadet/Junior/Veteran awards. Refreshments. Leon Paul sponsored competition (advance orders 0845 388 8132 or www.leonpaul.com ).

For furtherinformation and results: see http://www.one4all.plus.com/hwo.html

ENTRIES ONLINE via: http://www.leonpaul.com/acatalog/HWOpenEntry.html

ENTRIES by post to: John CHaynes, Acrefield, Mathon Road, Colwall, Malvern, Worcs. WR13 6ER ------Hereford &WorcesterOpen: 03/04.12.2011

Surname: Forename: Club:

Address: Postcode:

Tel: E-mail:

Weapon(s): Entry Fee (payable to H&W CFU,non-refundable after 14.11.2011): £

If Cadet/Junior/Veteran, please state year of birth: BFANo:

Contact name &telephone in case of emergency:

Iaccept that the organisers cannotbeheld responsible for any accident, loss or damage sustained at the tournament.

Signed: Date: (Parent/Guardian if under 18. N.B. Entry is not open to anyone under 13 on 01.01.2012) London 2012 Organisation

Malcolm Fare talks to Hilary Philbin,FencingManager for London 2012,about the organisation of the forthcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games

WE HEAR ALOT ABOUT BOTH LOCOG AND THE ODA–CAN YOUEXPLAIN THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THESE ORGANISATIONS? In anutshell, LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) are the organisers of the Games and the ODA(Olympic Delivery Authority) delivers the infrastructure. Detailed information about the two organisations is available on London2012.com,from which I’ve extracted abrief summary.

LOCOG ODA

LOCOG is headed up by Sebastian Coe as Chair and TheODA is headed up by John Armitt as Chair and Paul Deighton as Chief Executive. Dennis Hone as Chief Executive.

Responsibilities include: Responsibilities include: ● The2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games ● Developing and building the new venues and ● Aseries of test events in the year leading up to the infrastructure for the Games and their long-term Games use after 2012 ● Theopening and closing ceremonies of both the ● Permanent works to existing sports venues Olympic and Paralympic Games ● Planning and delivery on transport infrastructure ● TheOlympic and Paralympic torch relays and services to support the Games ● TheInspire programme ● Converting the Olympic Park for long-term use ● TheLondon 2012 mascots after the Games ● TheLondon 2012 festival ● Making sure the project sets new standards for ● Thefinale to the cultural Olympiad sustainable development

LOCOG needs approximately £2bn to stage the TheODA budget is drawn entirely from the public Games,and raises almost all of it from the private sector.Itisfunded by the Department for Culture, sector.Their revenue comes from several sources, Media and Sport, the Greater London Authority,the including income from the International Olympic London Development Agency and the Olympic Lottery Committee (IOC) as well as sales of tickets, Distributor. merchandise and, most importantly,adomestic sponsorship programme.

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WITH LOCOG ORGANISING THE FENCING EVENTS,HOW ARE BRITISH FENCING, THE BRITISH OLYMPIC ASSOCIATION AND THE FIE INVOLVED? TheSport teams in LOCOG work closely with anumber of external organisations and the main external contacts are shown below.

Fencing Team Relationships –External

International Olympic Olympic InternationalFederation Committee (IF) (IOC) Federation International d’Escrime (FIE) International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Paralympic InternationalFederation LOCOG (IF) International Wheelchair and Fencing Team Amputee Sports Federation (IWASF)

204 NationalOlympic Committees (NOCs) Olympic National Governing Body (NGB) eg: British Olympic Association (BOA) British Fencing (BF)

170 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) Paralympic National Governing Body (NGB) eg: British Paralympic Association (BPA) British Disabled Fencing Association Federation (BDFA)

TheIOC appoints the host city for the Olympic Games and HOW DOES THE FENCING TEAM has contracted LOCOG to deliver the Games in London on its behalf.The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) OPERATE WITHIN LOCOG? operates separately,but alongside the IOC, with its own Organising the Games is ahuge challenge.With 26 contract with LOCOG to deliver the Paralympic Games. Olympic sports and 20 Paralympic sports,it’sthe equivalent of staging 46 world championships simultaneously.There Our ultimate responsibility is to the IOC and IPC, but our main will be 36 competition venues,14,700 athletes,21,000 working relationshipsare with the international federations. media personnel and broadcasters,10,800,000 ticket- TheFIE is the organisation responsible for the conduct of the holders and aworkforce of around 200,000 people, Olympic fencing events and the InternationalWheelchair including staff,volunteers and contractors. and Amputee Sports Federation (IWASF) is similarly responsible for the conduct of the wheelchair fencing events. TheLOCOG fencing team is asmall cog in avery large We liaise regularly with the National Governing Bodies – wheel. LOCOG is split into 104 function-based British Fencing and the British Disabled Fencing Association departments,ofwhich Sport is just one.Within Sport, there (BDFA).Although not part of the Games organisation, the NGBs is asmall dedicated team (generally three people) for each provide LOCOG with the National Technical Officials (referees pair of Olympic/Paralympic sports,plus anumber of central and armourers) and many of the all-important volunteers. units.Each sport is led by aSport Manager,aided and abetted by aTechnical Operations Manager and aServices We also have contact with many of the 204 National Manager. Olympic Committees (NOCs) and 170 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) when they come to London for regular Thefencing team liaises with most of the other 103 pre-Games visits.This includes the BOAand the British Paralympic Association (BPA). TheNOCs and NPCs have departments,which generally hold the budgets and the overall responsibility for their national Olympic and relevant policies across all sports.This means,ineffect, that Paralympic teams who will compete in London 2012. each of the 46 sports negotiates for what they need from the other 103 functional departments.(This results in up to There are alot of acronyms in the Olympic and Paralympic 4738 crossing points where decisions are made involving a world –Ithink I’ve now mastered the first 500 or so! sport and afunction-based department.)

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Below is abasic illustration of asection of the decision-making matrix –Ihaven’t listed all 104 departments.You can see from the areas shaded in blue that there are 208 crossing points between sport and afunction-based department – 104 for each of fencing and wheelchair fencing. That’salot of meetings for the fencing team. Fencing Team Relationships –Internal

26 Olympic +20Paralympic Sports

ncing Fe 104 LOCOG nnis Te Departments ncing do ble ightlifting eelchair Boccia Boxing Fe Ju Ta We Wh Wrestling 1 2 3 4 5 ... 11 12 13 ... 1... 3Accreditation ... 6Broadcast Services ... 29 Publications ... 56 NOC/NPC Services ... 67 Press Operations 68 Protocol ... 79 Sports Presentation 80 Sport ... 88 Ticketing ... 92 Technology ... 96 Victory Ceremonies 97 Venue Management ... 102 Volunteer Recruitment 103 Volunteer Training 104 Website &New media

As asimple example,when fencing needs to plan athlete buses,wemeet up with the Transport department. However, the athlete bus policies will be Olympic-wide and/or Paralympic-wide,sowill be designed to fit 46 sports and many locations.Much discussion and negotiation is therefore needed to ensure that non-standard items,such as cumbersome fencing bags and Paralympic competition chairs,can be properly accommodated. It all makes our working day interesting, but we’re confident that it will be 'all right on the night'.

Afurther complication of afunction-based structure is the number of departments that are involved in an apparently simple task. Any one task, from the thousands required to be completed, can require interaction with many of the other departments,asinthe example here. At least it gives us agood opportunity to Task LOCOG departmentsinvolved makealot of friends –and I've even recruited afew to afencing class! Contract Management Furniture,Fittings &Equipment Health &Safety WHO’S WHO IN THE Logistics LOCOG FENCING TEAM? Look We really are ateam of fencers,orex- Office Technology fencers anyway.Apart from myself,there Procurement is Liz Charlton (Thurley) as Technical Obtain and install pistes and scoring Results Services and Distribution equipment Operations Manager and Caryl Oliver as Security Services Manager.We’ve joined LOCOG Sport Competition from very different working backgrounds Sport Equipment and we all chose to give up our ‘day jobs’ Sport Presentation to takeonthis once-in-a-lifetime Technology opportunity. Venue Design Venue Management Iwill include information about the Venue Projects fencing team and their LOCOG roles in the next issue of The Sword. ■

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by Hilary Philbin, LOCOG Fencing Manager

TEST EVENT Test events for all sports are being run under a‘London Prepares’ banner,and the fencing test event will takeplace on 26-27 November in ExCeL in East London –the venue for next year’sOlympic and Paralympic competitions.The test event is an international invitation men’sfoil competition for eight countries: Austria, , France, ,Great Britain, Korea, and USA. There will be an individual tableau of 32 on the Saturday and ateam event on the Sunday.

Thetest event is designed to test specific elements of VOLUNTEERS the technology and processes for the Olympic Games,so Fencing requires 277 Games-Makers (volunteers) for while the competition areas will be set up as closely to London 2012. Most applicants have already been in for Games-time as possible alot of the behind-the-scenes interview at one of the regional selection events,and a activity will be different. It also provides an opportunity few more are still to come.Work has commenced on for workforce training. assigning volunteers to roles for the test event and this will be followed by assignment of Olympic and There are no tickets being sold for this event as spectator Paralympic roles.Most (but not all) volunteers will be facilities are limited. However,anallocation of free seats needed for the test event and volunteer training will be made available through British Fencing for sessions will takeplace on 24-25 November. fencing ‘family and friends’ and supporters. Entry to the venue will be strictly controlled and will be limited to Young Games-Makers: LOCOG and British Fencing those with accreditation or supporters’ wristbands. have agreed ascheme to enable 24 young fencers to Those who would liketocome along and support the volunteer as Young Games-Makers (YGMs). Thegroup men's foil team against the top nations in the world will comprise amix of boys/girls,foil/epee/sabre and should contact British Fencing for details of how to juniors/cadets.(To be eligible,YGMs must have been register for awristband. Details will also be on the born in either 1994 or 1995.) Thegroup will work as British Fencing website and information will appear in piste assistants in the competition hall and the two To The Point. warm-up halls.

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TECHNICAL OFFICIALS TICKETING Technical Officials fall into two categories –International Thefencing seating bowl will hold approximately 8000 and National. and with two sessions aday that is ahuge audience for our sport. International Technical Officials (ITOs) are appointed by the FIE and include: Tickets are managed through the LOCOG Ticketing ● 6Directoire Technique department.Unfortunately the Sport department has no ● 3SEMI Commission access to either tickets or accreditation, so we are unable ● 2Medical Commission to assist or advise those who have not been successful ● 6Referees Commission with their ticket applications. ● 24 Referees However,there may be some further opportunities: We hope that there will be anumber of British representatives within these groups and we are ● Ablock of tickets has been purchased by the British awaiting confirmation from the FIE. An update will be Olympic Association to ensure that each 2012 included in the next issue of The Sword. competitor has the ability to purchase two tickets for their event through the Athletes Friends & National Technical Officials (NTOs) are appointed Family Programme.(Further information is available by LOCOG and include: from the British Olympic Association or through www.olympics.org.uk.) ● 8Referees (in addition to the 24 appointed by the FIE) Ablock of tickets has been purchased by the ● 23 Armourers (in London 2012 all armourer positions ● have the status of NTO, in recognition of their Olympians to enable former Olympic competitors to technical skills and Guild of Armourer buy tickets for their own events. qualifications) ● British Fencing may have access to some tickets,in Aprocess for the appointment of NTOs has been agreed which case further informationwil be available at a with British Fencing, based on the input of the Chairs of later date. the relevant committees –Ian Hunter (Referees) and Peter Huggins (Armourers).Aseparate process has been agreed ● Some blocks of tickets are currently being held by for each group,whereby the relevant sub-committee and/ UK travel agents and are on sale to the public as or selectors produce arecommended list based on agreed part of arange of packages. criteria. This list is forwarded by BF for formal approval and appointment by LOCOG.Once the lists are finalised, ● There is apossibility of afurther release of tickets LOCOG will forward them to the FIE (by end of October early next year once the seating bowl design and 2011) and issue invitations direct to the selected NTOs. other space requirements are finalised. ■

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by Malcolm Fare he senior Europeanchampionships were held in the MEN’S FOIL UK for the first time and brought together able- of caused the first upset in the Tbodied and wheelchair fencers over 7days at the championships by beating his compatriot and world No.3 English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. 605 competitors Andrea Cassara 15-14 in the men’sfoil final. Cassara had (404 able-bodied, 201 wheelchair) from over 30 countries adisastrous start when he suffered from cramp and lost took part and eight British referees were among the 32 the first five hits.But after amedical time-out of 10 selected by the European Fencing Confederation. minutes,hefought back to equalise at 10-all and went ahead for the first time with abeat disengage attack Thesports consultancy MLS Contracts wasappointed by followed by afleche to lead 13-11. It seemed that the tall British Fencing to deliver the event, supported by an army left-handed Italian wasback on track. However,Avola had of 200 volunteers aday organised by Rochelle Dazeley. other ideas.Shrewdly anticipating his opponent’sattacks, Their roles included piste assistant, steward, wheelchair he equalised at 13-all and again at 14-all. Then he assistant, armourer and avariety of administrative dramatically snatched the last hit with awell judged positions.Admission wasfree to the qualifying halls, parry-riposte and fell to his knees in joy. tickets to watch the semi-finals and finals costing £10 for adults and £5 for concessions (U17, full-time students, Thesemi-finals had produced what most people thought over 65s). Sponsors were British Fencing, UK Sport, would be the final: aconfrontation between the world Welcome to Yorkshire and Sheffield City Council. Nos.2and 3, Baldini and Cassara, but each had dropped a bout in the poules,Cassara being beaten 5-0 by Laurence Halsted, so they ended up as 14th and 15th seeds going Giorgio Avola of Italy celebrates beating through to the same semi. Baldini took an early lead at 5- team-mate Andrea Cassara to become 3, but Cassara soon caught up and used his reach to keep European men’s foil champion his team-mate at bay,winning six hits in arow to lead 13- [Aidan Byrne] 7.Although Baldini narrowed the gap,Cassara wasalways in control and made sure of a15-11 victory.Avola despatched Cheremisinov (RUS) 15-8 in the other semi. There were disappointing performances from the four British competitors.EdJefferies crashed out to Marcilloux (FRA) 3-15 in the L64. Theothers reached the L32, Halsted beating the world No.24Rigine (RUS) 15-13, Jamie Kenber disposing of Yunes (UKR) 15-9 and Richard Kruse dealing with the world No.20Hetsyk (UKR) 15-12. But they all went out in the next round, Halsted to Avola 9-15 and Jamie Kenber to Baldini 8-15. Kruse had weapon problems against Kawiecki (POL), ranked 40 places below him in the world, and lost concentration in the last period, falling 11-14 behind before refocusing and levelling the score,but his final riposte wasblocked and Kawiecki scored with adisengage. TEAM With three individual medallists,itwas not surprising that the Italians stormed to a45-28 victory over France in the final of the team championship,despite an incident that might have banned Cassara from the tournament less than halfway through the match. Fencing former Olympic champion and with a10-hit lead, Cassara scored with afleche attack and on his return deliberately

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Avola fleches through the defence of Cheremisinov [David Bradley]

Cassara stops Avola in mid-attack (Aidan Byrne)

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shouldered the Frenchman in the back, affecting surprise when the referee gave him ared card. To makematters worse,hethen pretended to limp back to his team, mocking athigh injury suffered by Guyart earlier this year.The Frenchman has apparently been targeted by the Italians ever since he beat both Cassara and to win the 2004 Olympic title in .Baldini and Avola defused the situation by quietly accumulating hits in their relays to put the match beyond France’sreach. Russia beat Germany 45-35 for the bronze medal.

Earlier,GBhad come close to beating Germany,leading until the last bout in which Laurence Halsted scored the first four hits in defensive mode against . But Joppich is not afour times world champion for nothing and is also something of afight- back specialist who is particularly good at forcing his opponents to initiate moves from which he can score.Heapplied this pressure to Halsted who started to attack and wasoverwhelmed as the German picked up five hits in arow to takethe match 42-39. However,the British team are astrong squad and they bounced back to beat 45-33 and then Austria 45-36 to finish fifth.

National foil coach Ziemek Wojciechowski commented, “The Germans always put Joppich on last fight as he can score alot of hits in ashort time.Hedid the same thing to the Russians not so long ago when Ganeev was10hits up and lost. Lessons have been learnt and we will be working on various strategies in the run-up to the Olympics.”

Halsted ripostes to back against Laurence [Aiden Byrne] the left-handed Rigine (RUS)

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WOMEN’S FOIL of Italy wins the European women’s Elisa Di Francisca of Italy confirmed her status as world number one foil title [Getty Images] by beating triple Olympic and five times world champion , 10-8 to win the women’sfoil title.Ascrappy first period saw both fencers missing and hitting off-target, so that the score wasonly 1-0 to Vezzali at the first break. She then took control to lead 5-1 before Di Francisca began to find her range and wasonly trailing 4- 5atthe second break. In the final period Vezzali again extended her lead to four hits,but began to tire as Di Francisca maintained her composure and gradually clawed her wayback to equalise at 8-all. Aremise put her 9-8 up with 3seconds left and acounter into a despairing fleche from Vezzali clinched the fight. Thenew champion promptly leapt into the arms of her coach, , and wrapped her legs around his waist. She seemed quite pleased.

Thesemi-finals saw Vezzali overwhelm Knapek (HUN) 12-4, but Lamonova(RUS) gave Di Francisca atough fight in the other semi. With no love lost between them, they traded hits to 11-all, stopping frequently to play for time by loosening their hair and tying it up again. One corps-a-corps encounter resulted in the Italian raising her fist against Lamonova, miming to the referee that the Russian had hip-butted her.She eventually scraped through 13-12.

Of the British contingent, Claire Bennett waseliminated after the poules with one victory.Martina Emanuel won two,but that only made her 31st seed and she wascrushed by Vezzali 3-14. Natalia Sheppard wasalways behind against Knapek (HUN), but managed to equalise at 10-all as time expired. With priority in her favour, she held off the Hungarian until just 4seconds were left before

Di Francisca and Valentina Vezzali (left) in the final [Getty Images]

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Di Francisca at full stretch against Vezzali [David Bradley]

succumbing. Anna Bentley also came from behind to draw TEAM level with another Hungarian, Kreiss,and then snatched TheItalian women edged to anervy 45-43 victory over the last hit to reach the L16 where she met the No.1seed Russia to takethe team title with the lead changing hands Shanaevaand went down 8-15. four times.Vezzali began badly,going down 0-5, but in the penultimate fight Di Francisca pulled back asix-hit deficit to give Italy a40-38 lead as Vezzali came on for the last relay against Shanaeva. Although the Russian levelled the score at 43-all, Vezzali took the last two hits,finishing with adeceptively simple extension closing the line into her opponent’spreparation. Thebronze medal wastaken by Germany who beat 45-38. In their first match, GB made agood fight of it against Italy,going down by arespectable 34-39, but in the fight- offs,the team lost 31-45 to France and 28-38 to Ukraine to finish eighth.

Vezzali wins the women’s foil team championship for Italy [Getty Images]

Anna Bentley reaches the L16 after beating Kreiss (HUN) [Getty Images]

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MEN’S EPEE Twoequally tall epeeists,the left-handed Joerg Fiedler of Vermijlen fleches at Feidler Germany and the right-handed Bas Verwijlen of the [David Bradley] ,put on aremarkable display of fast and fluid fencing in the men’sepee final. After aslow start, the German led 3-1 at the first break, but by the second break, the Dutchman had equalised at 7-all. Driving Verwijlwen to the back line,Fiedler scored to edge ahead and then four doubles made it 13-12.Aneat riposte put the German within one hit of victory,but Verwijlen responded with a brilliant foot hit to narrow the gap to 14-13. Again driving the Dutchman to the back line,Fiedler anticipated the inevitable attack and countered to makeitadouble and secure the title.

In the semi-finals,Fiedler took out the No.1seed Tomasz Motyka of Poland, who had beaten Britain’ssole representative Jonathan Willis 15-8 in the L64, and the Olympic champion Tagliariol (ITA) in the quarter-finals.The first period wasclose,Motyka making up for his shorter reach by some lightning fleche attacks to lead 6-5 at the first break. But the German began to anticipate the attacks, parried and riposted to go 12-9 up by the second break. Changing from apistol grip to along French handle,the Pole tried to takeadvantage of the extra length, but Fiedler maintained his three-hit lead to win 15-12. and world No.1Gauthier Grumier 15-12 in the L32 before going out to Fiedler. In the other semi Verwijlen took on the in-form Max Heinzer from . They were 4-all at the first break, but then the Dutchman waited for his shorter TEAM opponent to attack, making asuccessful parry-riposte TheFrench team led from the start in the final against followed by two sudden attacks to lead 7-4 and 9-6 at the Hungary,Grumier,Luceney,Gustin and Borel all second break. He continued to anticipate well and never contributing to their 45-40 victory.France’sprogress to the allowed the Swiss back into the fight, winning 15-11. gold medal match wasstraightforward, as they overcame Switzerland 45-34 in the quarter-finals and Ukraine 45-37 Other results of note were 47-year-old Arwin Kardolus of in the semis.Inthe other semi, Hungary just beat astrong the Netherlands making the quarter-finals,and the young Russian team 45-42. Russia went on to win the bronze Frenchman, Yanick Borel, defeating his fellow countryman medal by beating Ukraine 45-36.

Joerg Feidler (GER) and Bas Vermijlen (NED) in the men’s epee final [Getty Images]

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Feidler counters into afleche from Motyka (POL) in the semi-finals [Getty Images]

WOMEN’S EPEE on the clock to takethe fight into extra time.With priority Tiffany Geroudet of Switzerland ground out ahard fought against her,Heidemann had no choice but to attack. 9-8 win over current Olympic champion Britta Heidemann Geroudet waswaiting and thrust out afast counter to of Germany to takethe women’sepee title.After 1½ score. minutes of relative inactivity in the first period, referee Thefights were tight throughout the day,both finalists Matt Haynes called non-combativity and moved the fight scraping through their quarter-finals by one hit as straight into the second period. Thedecision worked and Heidemann edged out Stroka (POL) 10-9 and Geroudet had both fencers started taking the fight to each other,with amonumental battle with Flessel-Colovic (FRA) before three hits scored in less than 20 seconds.Heidemann fell winning 15-14. They had easier semis,Heidemann beating behind by two hits as they moved into the final period, but Branza (ROM) 15-10, while Geroudet had anarrower pulled back to equalise at 8-all with less than 30 seconds victory over Moellhausen (ITA) 15-13.

Tiffany Geroudet (SWI –left) and Britta Heidemann (GER) in the women’s epee final [Getty Images]

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Heidemann at full stretch against Geroudet [Getty Images]

Of the four British epeeists,Elisa Albini waseliminated in the final two bouts Romania stormed ahead to win 45- after the poules with one victory.Georgina Usher and 31. Mary Cohen fell in the L64, Usher to Beljajeva(EST) 9-15 and Cohen just losing to Moellhausen 14-15. That left In the semi-finals Romania had beaten France 45-38, while Corinna Lawrence,who beat Marinuk (ISR) 15-7 before Russia had atough match with before winning going out to Jacques-Andre-Coquin (FRA) 7-15 in the L32. 42-41. Thebronze medal match saw the most sensational comeback of the championships,asFrance’sFlessel-Colovic TEAM swapped from apistol grip to aFrench handle so that she TheRomanians cruised to victory over Russia to takethe could pommel and then stormed back from 32-40 down team title in great style.The match started slowly with three against Embrich to level the score at 41-all at time,winning fights ended early by the referee for non-combativity,but 42-41 in the priority minute.

Zuikova (left) and Nisima in the women’s epee team bronze medal match between Estonia and France [Getty Images]

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MEN’SSABRE World No.1Alexey YakimenkoofRussia became the only person to retain their European title after one of the most exciting sabre finals in recent years,just defeating Bolade Apithy of France 15-14. TheRussian favourite led 8-4 at the break and the crowd expected him to win easily,but Apithy had other ideas and closed the gap before equalising at 13- all. Yakimenkosteadied himself to go 14-13 up,but the drama wasn’t over as Apithy levelled again. This entertaining fight had to end and ultimately it wasYakimenkowho prevailed. Apithy had progressed to the final after another intriguing fight with Szilagyi (HUN) in the semis.The Hungarian had the early lead and seemed to be heading to the gold medal match, but Apithy wastobecome acrowd favourite by coming back from behind and winning 15-14. Yakimenko was0-2 down in his semi against Hartung (GER) before levelling the match and then taking the lead. He came through 15-10.

Synchronised appealing by Apithy and Szilagyi [Getty Images]

James Honeybone attacks Yakimenko (RUS) in the L32 of the men’s sabre [Getty Images]

Yakimenko (right) launches an attack against Apithy (FRA) in the men’s sabre final [Getty Images]

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Hartung in mid-flunge against Montano in the men’s sabre team final [Getty Images]

TEAM In the final of the team event, the Italians led from start to finish, as they beat Germany 45-38. From the first bout when Montano raced to a5-0 lead over Hartung, they never looked back. Occuzzi and Tarantino widened the margin and by the end of the seventh match Italy held acommanding 10-hit lead. Alate rally from Hartung closed the gap to seven hits,but there wasnostopping the dominant Italians. Olga Kharlan of the Ukraine wins the European women’s sabre title [Getty Images] Italy had progressed to the gold medal match with straightforward victories over Hungary 45-38 and Romania 45-29. Germany had aharder time,beating Belarus,45-41 before coming up against the favourites,Russia. To general surprise the Germans powered their waytoa45-35 victory. Theworld’sbest sabre coach, Frenchman Christian Bauer, who is now in the Russian camp after coaching the last two individual Olympic champions,gave his team atough debriefing. They then beat Romania 45-36 for the bronze medal.

WOMEN’S SABRE Sophia Velekaia (RUS) and Olga Kharlan (UKR), the world Nos.2and 3, were expected to reach the women’ssabre final, but Velekaia had abad day,going out 9-15 to Vougiouka (GRE) in the L16. Her place wastaken by Aleksandra Socha (POL), who worked her wayquietly through the tableau to knock out top seed Pundyk (UKR) 15-11 in the semi-finals.Meanwhile,inthe other half of the draw Kharlan never brokesweat, reaching the final with an easy 15-8 victory over Gavrilova(RUS). In the final she succeeded with every attack, going 8-2 up at the break and powering on to a12-4 lead before appearing to become bored and allowing Socha six hits to get back into the fight. But she quickly regained her focus and closed out the match 15-10.

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TEAM the European title.Earlier he had beaten Pender (POL), Having scored an unexpected win over the world number bronze medallist, in the quarter-finals and one team Russia 45-32 in the semi-finals,Italy faced Tokatlian (FRA), the world No.4,inthe semis. Ukraine,who had defeated France 45-36 in the other semi. Although Vecchi gave the Italians a5-0 lead in the British highlights included Craig McCann having agreat first fight, Kharlan promptly demolished Bianco 10-1 in a win against Betti (world No.5)from Italy in his poule and seemingly casual yet irresistible manner to put Ukraine Simon Wilson reaching the L16. 10-6 ahead. Her team-mates held on for much of the match until the penultimate bout, when Marzocca scored MEN’S BFOIL eight hits in arow against Khomrovatogive Vecchi a5- This wasafiercely fought event with four of the world’s hit lead going into the last fight with Kharlan. Despite a top five battling it out. PalSzekeres from Hungary,last valiant effort from the Ukrainian, Vecchi held her nerve to year’sworld silver medallist, showed his mental give the Italians anarrow 45-43 victory. toughness and experience by coming through 15–14 in his quarter-and semi-finals.Hewent on to beat the current Russia beat France 45-26 to takethe bronze medal in a world No.2and Beijing silver medallist, Laurent (FRA), 15- one-sided match. GB lost to Spain on the final hit 44-45 in 11 to takethe title. the L16 to finish tenth. Italy completely dominated these championships,winning MEN’S CFOIL six gold medals,two silver and two bronze.Noother Russia dominated the medals in Cat C, taking gold, silver country won more than one gold, although Russia and one of the bronzes. Only Russo (ITA) broketheir equalled Italy’stotal tally of ten medals,with one gold, monopoly by grabbing the other bronze.The all-Russian two silver and seven bronze. final between Nikolay Lukiyanov and Alexander Logutenkowas tight and keenly contested. In the early stages there wasnothing to choose between the two,but WHEELCHAIR EVENTS as the fight progressed Logutenkoeased in front and BACKGROUND seized the initiative to takegold 15-11. After the Beijing Paralympics of 2008, Britain had only one TEAM or two regular wheelchair fencers,nodomestic competition apart from the nationals and no ranking system in place. Number one seeds France were at the centre of much of Since then, the sport has had increased training the drama, no more so than in their semi-final bout with opportunities,several integrated clubs,anumber of domestic Russia. This ended in chaos as the ninth and final fight events mostly co-hosted at Opens,adomestic ranking produced five red cards,the last of which gave Russia system, integration with the British fencing championships victory by 45-36 amid angry French protests.France was and has appointed aperformance manager. then involved in an epic battle with Italy for the bronze.As the match reached the closing stages,itlooked as if the At these championships,Simon Wilson achieved apersonal French had done enough to win, but the Italians best: L16 in both foil and epee Cat A. He wasone hit from overhauled them at the last and won 45-44. Thefinal reaching the L8 in the epee and about 18 months ago he between Russia and Ukraine wasamuch calmer affair had not won aDEfight. With the exception of TomHall with the Russians establishingcontrol early on and Butcher (who made the cut in the men’ssabre Aand lost holding on for adeserved 45-38 victory. his DE by 1hit), most other fencers have less than 3years in the sport or are returning to fencing after some years WOMEN’S AFOIL away and are catching up to the current level of the There were plenty of surprises in the women’sfoil Cat Aas game. Sabrina Poignet from France had agreat run, beating Able-bodied fencers,who had not seen serious wheelchair Halinka from Belarus 15-14 in the quarter-finals and fencing before,were astonished at how athletic and Sycheve 15-3 in the semis.However,the final wasone flexible the fencers were as they swayed back and forth in round too far as the world No.4,Szuszanna Krajnyak from and out of distance,the effort often moving the locked Hungary,proved too strong and took the title 15-11. chairs in their frame along the short metallic piste,sothat the whole contraption had to be reset. Thedistance WOMEN’S BFOIL between opponents is fixed by the fencer with the shorter Judit Palfi from Hungary beat the highly fancied Lukianenko reach who can choose to set it at their own reach or that (UKR) 15-8 in the quarter-finals and then the No.1seed of their opponent. Each fencer is classified according to Biese-Baetke(GER) 15-12 to set up an all-Hungaryfinal their ability to perform the skills needed to fence –arm with Gyongyi Dani, who had beaten Vasilueva(RUS) 15-11 extension, speed of movement, lunge and recovery,etc – in the semis.Itwas Dani, the 2010 bronze medallist, who with those in Category Ahaving the most ability. prevailed 15-13. MEN’S AFOIL TEAM Thebiggest upset in the men’sfoil Cat Acompetition came Hungary consolidated their position at the top of the when Richard Osvath from Hungary,ranked 23 in the world, wheelchair event medal table with some convincing fencing, beat the world No.6,Ludovic Lemoine (FRA), 15–12 to take disposing of Ukraine in the semi-final 45-21. In the final

The 26 SWORD Senior European Championships they faced aFrench team that had held its nerve well in a TEAM tight semi-final against Russia, winning 42-41. In the final There wasapacked and noisy crowd for the France vRussia the Hungarians always appeared to have enough class to final and it lived up to expectations.The Russians took an beat the French and that proved to be the case as they early five-hit lead and were still four ahead going into the established an early lead. TheFrench narrowed the gap in fifth fight, when Noble took the final by the scruff of the the middle,but the Hungarians raised their game and neck and posted afive-hit turnaround with some elegant pulled away to win 45-26. Thebronze medal went to precision hitting against Kuzyukov.Cratere and Citerne Russia who beat Ukraine 45-32. then stretched France’slead to five points before Noble returned to the piste to wrap it up,despite alate flourish MEN’S AEPEE by Yusupov. Romain Noble of France wasinconfident form throughout the day.Having disposed of world No.1,Pender (POL), 15- Russia had upset the form book to reach the final as they 12 in the semi-final, he went on to crush Matteo Betti put out 2nd seeds Belarus 45-42 and 3rd seeds Poland 45- (ITA) 15-6 in the final. This category saw the best British 39 before finding favourites France astep too far in the performance of the day by Simon Wilson who finished final. Thebronze medal match went to Poland who beat 16th, going out by aslender 15-16 to eventual bronze Italy 42-27. medallist Tsedryk (UKR). WOMEN’S AEPEE MEN’S BEPEE Hungary’sZsuzsanna Krajnyak added to her foil gold It wasagolden day for Belarus fencer Nikolai Bezyazychny medal by capturing asecond gold in the epee final, as he upset the form book and rankings table by winning beating Yuliya Efimova(RUS) 15-13. TheRussian took an the Cat Bepee,beating Maxime Valet (FRA) 15-10 in the early lead, but she wasonly 6-5 ahead at the break. World final. It washis semi-final and quarter-final victories over No.2Krajnyak then slowly took control and eased herself the two Frenchmen who are world Nos.1&2,respectively to victory.The bronze medals went to Fidrych (POL) and Cratere and Latrech, that really caught the eye,excellent Juhasz (HUN). results for afencer ranked 15th in the world. Bezyazychny does have ahabit of shining in major tournaments, WOMEN’SBEPEE however,having taken silver in Beijing. Russia’sLudmila Vasiluevasurvived an extraordinary fight- back by world No.2Marta Makowska (POL) in the final of MEN’S CEPEE the Cat Bevent.Vasiluevahad Makowska on the ropes from Ukraine triumphed in Cat Cwith Oleksiy Sundiyev beating the start, racing to a6-0 lead after 2minutes and retaining Italian William Russo in the final. Russia took both bronze that margin at the break with aconvincing 11-5 lead. But medals. this evaporated as Makowska clawed her wayback to

Craig McCann reaches for ahit in amen’s epee Cat Apoule [Getty Images]

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equaliseat12-all. In the end Vasiluevaheld her nerve to over Poland in the team event by 45-36. Thefinal was takethe final hit. Briese-Baetke(GER), currently ranked dramatic and tense with fencers from both sides picking world No.1,had to settle for bronze,asdid Pozniak (UKR). up red cards as vociferous support cheered every hit. Poland kept in touch in the first three fights,but aswashbuckling 5-0 win by Laurent followed by an almost equally MEN’S ASABRE devastating 5-1 from the imperious Noble gave France a This event had every fencer in the top 10 in the world ten-hit cushion. Makowski helped Poland cut the deficit except four from China and Hong Kong. Andreev (RUS) but even he waspowerless to stop Noble in the last fight wasasurprise semi-finalist, along with his team-mate as the Frenchman chalked up another 5-1 victory.Russia Frolov.But the final wasaFrench battle between Romain won the bronze medal match, beating Greece 45-29, and Noble and Moez El Assine.Noble took an early 8-4 lead it wasthe Greeks who put out the British team 45-23 in and it looked likehewould run away with it, but El Assine the first round. dug deep and pulled it back point by point until he was only one hit behind at 12-13, then 13-14. But Noble swayed back out of reach of his opponent’smultiple WOMEN’S ASABRE attacks and then pounced to win 15-14. Earlier in the day This event wasextremely strong, with the top six in the the strongest performance from the British team saw Tom world taking part, including the gold, silver and bronze Hall Butcher narrowly miss out on atop 8finish, losing 14- medallists from last year’sworld championships.However 15 to Pylarinos (GRE). after the poule round, the direct elimination draw placed the top fencers all in the same half.Burdon (POL) and world No.2beat world No.3Pavlova(RUS) in the quarter MEN’S BSABRE finals 15-7 to set up arematch of last year’sgold medal This event had the top three in the world looking to battle fight in the semis.But Kuramshina (RUS) wastoo strong, it out. In asurprise victory,Anton Datsko(UKR), beat the winning 15-5 to reach the final. There she met Loredana world No.1and gold medallist in Paris,Laurent (FRA), 15- (ITA), the world No.4,who had beaten Fidrych (POL) 15- 11 in the quarter-finals.Marat Yusupov (RUS) also had 12 in the other semi. Theday belonged to Kuramshina as everyone talking when he made it through to the final with she confirmed her place as the world’sbest female agreat semi-final win over Cratere (FRA). Datsko, however, sabreur,winning comfortably 15-7. continued his great run, beating Yusupov 15-8 in the final. In the medal table events,Hungary may have won only nine medals,but seven of them were gold to put them top. TEAM Both France and Russia collected more medals,but only Romain Noble picked up his third gold medal of the four were gold, France’shaul of 12 including six silver, championships as he led apowerful French team to victory while Russia amassed 19 of which 11 were bronze.

Alan Sheriff attacks Stanczuk (POL) in the men’s sabre Cat Aevent [Getty Images]

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VOLUNTEERING Thevolunteers were amixed bunch from school children to retired people,experienced fencers and non-fencers, British and foreign. Avolunteer’sday lasted for as long as there were fencers in the venue,which wasoften 8am-9pm and even longer for some.Breakfast and lunch wasprovided in ‘Flamingo Land’, aplace for them to relax during breaks.There wasabright pink theme for the volunteers,who could be spotted from far away and were easily approachable by spectators,fencers and coaches.

Volunteers were given avariety of roles over the week. They included piste assistant, video-jockey,frame handler, working in the call room, in media, or at the welcome desk. Most of the roles allowed them to get close to the action and they often had the best seats for many fights. TorAxel Thullberg, from Sweden, worked in the call room Britta Heidemann with volunteers throughout the week where he had to pack afencer’skit James Frewin (left) and Daniel Ming once it had been checked and then carry it out on the piste.Hesaid, “I found it interesting to see how the fencers prepared themselves before going out to fence.” Thespirit among volunteers wasalways high; everyone helped each other,worked through breaks and never Without doubt the hardest role wasbeing awheelchair complained. They were often excited after watching a frame handler.Itwas very tough work having to clamp thrilling fight or meeting afencing idol. It wasquite amazing each wheel on the piste,adjust foot straps and then to turn your head and see the current Olympic champion, correct the distance between the chairs.Each piste would then the world champion would walk past and if you typically have ateam of three volunteers.Throughout the approached them they would often talk for ashort time and week turnover times became faster and techniques were allow you to have aphoto taken with them; if you were perfected. cheeky enough to ask, they might give you some piece of kit.

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On the penultimate evening aparty washeld in Flamingo after whoever needed help.They each deserve abig thank Land for everyone to kick back and have some fun. It you and with their involvement in next year’sOlympic wasalso the time for the event management to thank fencing I’m sure it will be another first-class event. Very each individual volunteer and give them apresent, which well done to everyone involved.” ■ wasofcourse pink, as atoken of their appreciation. The Volunteer Manager,Rochelle Dazeley,was very impressed with them all. “Fantastic, absolutely brilliant”,she said. “It waslovely working with everybody,tiring but good fun.”

These championships were definitely aweek for everyone to remember,new friendships were made,new skills learnt and alot of world-class fencing waswatched and admired. Hayley Beaumont, who volunteered all week, had agreat time.“I’ve seen some amazing fencing and I’m now inspired to get back into training.” Will Sturgeon

ENDORSEMENTS “This is the best competition Ihave ever been to and I have heard alot of the foreign competitors say the same”, said wheelchair fencer Simon Wilson. “The organisation has been spot on and it has had agreat atmosphere.”

“What afabulous job British Fencing did in organising this event”, commented Swindon Fencing Club president Neil Bromley.“From the piste organisation by Leon Paul to all the logistics and attention to detail involved in making sure the fencers and members of the public were looked after by the support team, it really wasafirst-class few days.Special mention must go to Rochelle Dazeley and her team of volunteer ‘Friendly Faces’, who worked Atired helper [Aidan Byrne] tirelessly everyday,always smiling and attentively looking

CAMBRIDGE WINTER TOURNAMENT: ENTRYFORM 7th/8th JANUARY2012 Cambridge Winter Tournament: 7/8/1/2012

Venue: Cambridge Regional College, Kings Hedges Road, Cambridge Weapon(s):...... CB4 2QT http://www.camre.ac.uk/Documents/Maps/Cambridge-Map.pdf Name:...... Events Check-in closes Address: 7January 2012 ...... Men’sEpee 09.00 ...... Women’sEpee 09.30 8January 2012 ...... Men’sFoil 09.00 Women’sFoil 09.30 Club:...... Men’sSabre &Women’sSabre 11.00 Telephone:...... Entry Fee: £15 (£25 late entry fee at organisers discretion) Email: ...... Cheques payable to: Cambridgeshire Fencing Association Entries to: Nick Bane, 133 Caxton End, Bourn, Cambs. CB23 2ST. BFANo:...... Tel: 01954 719270. Email: [email protected] Cadet: (Yes/No) Veteran: (Yes/No) Closing Date: 31/12/2011 Iaccept that the organisers cannot be held responsible for anyaccident, Notes: Only entries with fees will be considered. The organisers reservethe loss or damage sustained at the tournament. right to limit the size of the competition if required. Leon Paul will provide an equipment stall. BFAmembership will be checked –please ensure full membership. Sports Halls open 8am. Signed:...... Date:...... Website: www.camfc.org.uk/cwt.html (Parent/Guardian if U18)

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by Mark Barton and David Hall

enito Mussolini, Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Göring, Fencing did, however,have an extraordinary prominence Juan Perón and Oswald Mosley all had something in within the Nazi hierarchy.Some of this popularity pre-dated Bcommon, in addition to being right-wing political the Nazis rise to power.Inthe 19th century,Germany had leaders.They were fencers.Indeed, an active interest in astrong tradition of Schlager fencing. This wasvery much fencing wasnot limited to these infamous few.Heinrich university led and there were many fencing clubs and Himmler had also fenced at university.Before we get too fraternities.Himmler wasthe most notable Nazi to embrace worried that only the malevolent men of history fenced, this fraternity scene.Hewas ‘blooded’ when he clashed there were plenty of more inspiring leaders who fenced, swords with another student, receiving five cuts that needed including French and US Presidents,Winston Churchill and stitches and earning himself ascar.Schlager wasinitially General Patton, who competed in the 1912 Olympics and banned (although later rescinded) by the Nazis as they did not wrote asabre manual. want the oaths of loyalty taken by fencing society members being made to any other organisations other than their own. What wasit, though, that attracted the right-wing leaders of the first half of the 20th century to the sport? Perhaps Fencing wasimportant to these men who were driven by the best known and most accomplished fencer out of this areal interest in the sport. In 1937 fencing featured in a group is the SS leader,Reinhard Heydrich. He fenced for high-level conference between Italy and Germany,when Germany and the Third Reich, but did not quite achieve his Göring and Mussolini fenced each other.According to a ambition of representing at the 1936 Olympics. fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute contest, Mussolini wasalso anoted duellist and Mosley wasinthe “Mussolini wasfaster and more agile.Heshowed his years British epee team. Perón wasArgentinean Army champion of constant training. Göring wasthe stronger.Heshowed and had been due to go to the 1924 Olympics,but was surprising speed for aman of his size and revealed himself barred from leaving the country by the WarMinister. to be an accomplished swordsman.”1

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Although fencing wasnot traditionally associated with Germany,asitwas with France,Hungary and Italy prior to the Berlin Olympics,the country did produce one outstanding pre-war fencer,the 1928 Olympic and triple European/world champion .At5feet 10 inches tall, she wasapowerful yet sleek figure with striking blue eyes and long golden blonde hair –inevery respect the embodiment of the idolised female German athlete,but she wasalso part Jewish. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Mayer wasliving in the United States.Asthe 1936 Berlin Olympics approached, she was the subject of intense political pressure: Jewish groups pressed her not to represent Nazi Germany,whilst the US Government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) put increasing pressure on the German government not to discriminate against Jewish athletes.Under the Nürnberg Laws of 1935, Mayer wasnolonger aGerman citizen, but she waseventually invited to represent Germany at the Olympics in asordid compromise between the American and German Olympic Committees.The final must have been thrilling, with the Hungarian Ilona Schacherer-Elek winning on overall points ahead of Mayer and Ellen Preis of Austria. Ironically,both Schacherer-Elek and Preis were part Jewish too.

Undeterred by the contradictions thrown up in Olympic fencing, Heinrich Himmler,the Reichsführer SS,ordered the first SS Fencing Masters Tournament to be held just three months after the Berlin Olympics ended. Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Head of the Gestapo and Head of the much feared Sicherheitsdienst (SD), won third place in sabre and fifth in epee.InAugust 1941, at the second wartime German fencing championships,Heydrich again came fifth out of the top 12 fencers in the country and close to the top for all of occupied Europe.Heydrich wasfanatical about the sport. Despite working 16 hours aday,healways found the energy and the time to train. Lina, his wife,said that ‘he trained at least an hour every morning, before the day’swork began. Then on weekends there were Göring watches Mussolini (left) and aGerman officer competitions.’2 put on adisplay of swordsmanship

Interestingly,fencing also caused several of these individuals to compromise on their normal behaviour as FIE archives from his home in Brussels.Anspach was well as their publicly professed beliefs.Heydrich, despite cleared of any involvement in the crime and released, but his role in the SS and his personal responsibility as one of the FIE archives had been sent to Berlin on Heydrich’s the chief architects of the Holocaust, helped Paul Somner, orders.On5February 1941, he summoned Anspach to aJew and aformer German fencing champion, find safe Berlin and tried to persuade him to relinquish the FIE passage to the United States.And during the Polish Presidency.Anspach refused and, perhaps surprisingly, campaign in September 1939, Heydrich gave strict orders wasallowed to return to Brussels.Less than two weeks not to harm any of the 1936 Polish Olympic fencers.Attila later,the Gestapo turned up at his house with aletter of Petschauer,aHungarian Jew,who had won individual resignation for him to sign. Again, Anspach refused, silver and team gold in sabre at the 1928 Olympics,was saying: “I am mandated by thirty-seven national fencing given aspecial ‘document of exemption’protecting him federations; nothing can permit me to abdicate my powers from arrest and deportation. Unfortunately,Petschauer was to one affiliate.” Heydrich, however,was not aman who arrested by Hungarian police while walking in , gave up either easily or gracefully.Heformed an alliance having left his papers at home.Hewas deported to the with Dr Giulio Basletta, afriend of Anspach and President Davidovka concentration camp in the Ukraine where he of the Italian Federation and by June 1941, Heydrich had died. all the support he needed to force Anspach out and take over the FIE. In aletter dated 25 June 1941, Heydrich told After the German occupation of France and the Low Anspach that “for the duration of the warIshall carry on Countries in the summer of 1940, Heydrich attempted to the direction of the FIE in consultation with Dr Basletta. takeover the InternationalFencing Federation (FIE). The Thequestion of the ultimate direction of the affairs of the Gestapo arrested Paul Anspach, the FIE President, on FIE for the next period of office can only be settled after suspicion of murdering German deportees,and seized the the end of the war.” 3

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Asimilar tale of defiance had also occurred to Mussolini physical development of Nazi youth and featured in the with his initial attempts to persuade , Italy’s curriculum of the elite schools created by the National greatest gold medal winning fencer,tomove to Rome to Socialist Party to generate the future party political elite. coach the Italian Olympic fencing team. Ironically,alocal Fencing wasanew wayofundertaking atraditional Fascist leader who wasthreatening Nadi as he would not activity,soitbuilt on the Schlager tradition but for all, as join the Fascist party wasinitially moved to protect Nadi befits the socialism part of the National Socialist and then executed by ablack shirt hit squad. Nadi Weltanschauung (worldview). Merging history with anew eventually succumbed to the requests,moving to Rome way, it fitted well with the Teutonic legends; this is also where he coached the successful 1936 Italian Olympic seen with the widespread wearing of daggers,swords and team. From 1935 to his death in January 1940, he served dress bayonets,which no doubt aided employment in the as President of the Italian Federation. sword manufacturing industry based in Solingen.

Fencing not only featured prominently in the sporting lives Sport provided aclear and unifying focus for the nation. of these ‘Fascist fencers’, it pervaded the society they were It is notable that all the right-wing regimes were keenly creating. At the end of the first SS Fencing Masters interested in hosting major international sporting Tournament, Heydrich gave the after-dinner speech and competitions.Italy hosted the second football World Cup emphasised the importance of fencing in SS culture.He in 1934, Germany the 1936 Olympics and the even persuaded Himmler that all senior SS officers should first World Basketball Championship in 1950, followed a be compelled to practice with the sabre.4 Heydrich’spublic year later by the first Pan-American Games.These events, image underscored physical toughness and an absolute rightly or wrongly,conferred international prestige and determination to succeed. He wasoften pictured in the status on the host nation. newspapers dressed as the captain of the SS fencing team. Fencing wasalso seen to be important in the cerebral and In the early 20th century sport also had amilitary purpose. Formany national governments,there wasaclear drive to develop fit young men to be better military personnel. Fencing wasanideal sport in this respect. Unlikeseveral other pugilistic sports,fencing usually does not involve participants getting injured and thus becoming unfit for service.The various elements of the sport: precision, physical speed and strength, concentration, dedication, and the need to think as well as act with confidence and conviction, all expedite the development of good military traits.The Waffen SS taught fencing to increase speed and ferocity in combat.

Finally,whilst uniformity is often thought to be akey feature of military life and military institutions,itisnot necessarily the case in the higher levels of command and leadership.Great captains are unique individuals.Sporting champions also require exceptional and often distinctive skills and talents,which may explain why sport appealed to many political and military leaders.The combination of this logic, particularly with regard to fencing, is pertinent to the National Socialists and also to the other fascist leaders who were so keen on the sport. Equally,the same logic applies to non-right-wing leaders who fenced. It is perhaps no coincidence that the US Army general George SPaton Jr.was not only afencer but wasalso notorious for designing his own uniforms and weapons so that he stood out from the crowd. ■

1 Time Magazine, 25 January 1937. 2 Mario RDederichs, Heydrich. The Face of Evil translated by Geoffrey Brooks (London: Greenhill Books,2006) pp.130-133; and Richard Cohen, By the Sword (London: Macmillan, 2002) pp.333-338. 3 Günther Deschner, Heydrich –The Pursuit of Total Power (London: Orbis,1981) pp.118-119. Reinhard Heydrich 4 Callum MacDonald, The Killing of SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (London: Macmillan, 1989) p.42.

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to have lost their funding or not even know whether they WHITHER EPEE? are able to self-fund. If British Fencing can provide for a Wellington Swords is asuccessful foil and epee club in the world-class coach, such as Ziemek, for foil but ignore South West with afull range of fencers at all levels from epee,then there is aself fulfilling prophecy here,ieifyou cadets through to veterans.Its main strength lies at epee do not invest in aweapon and do not select fencers for as the regular stream of our fencers to the international that weapon, then they will be unable to meet the and world championship arena indicates.This is due to a qualifying criteria for any future Performance Programme! combination of factors,among them: agood experienced Hungarian coach who has been D. Weapon committees have always been at the forefront working with the club for the past 8years. of pursuing the best for their individual weapons.Itisnow apparent that this responsibility has been taken away astrong and dedicated corps of parents who have from them and placed in the hands of aselect few funded their teenagers to ahost of international training members of the Board. TheEpee Committee appears to camps,team competitions,championships at home and have had virtually no say in future selection for Senior abroad and club fencing. events.This is particularly worrying for clubs such as ours last but not least, the fencers themselves who have a who need to know where their fencers stand within the burning desire to compete at the highest level for their UK and must have confidence in the selection criteria and country. its process.Parents and fencers need to be convinced that the weapon committees are representing their concerns to Theemergence of anumber of new policies and strategies the Board. from British Fencing in recent months regarding selection for the Olympics,World Championships and, indeed, any E. Our fencers have now been told that the National international competition appears to be putting all this Academy is the only route to future selection. Despite the work at risk for one particular weapon –epee.There is a fact that the introduction of the Academy wasbadly disturbing undercurrent of unrest amongst all epeeists at handled at the outset, both in its timeframe and its the moment, not only in our club,but in many others imposition of awhole new raft of expensive weekend across the UK with whom we have spoken. Parents and training sessions to fit into an already overburdened fencers have adistinct impression that epee is now being Cadet and Junior calendar,our young fencers are now actively sidelined and recent communications from British examining whether they will truly stand achance for any Fencing have done nothing to dispel this concern. international championships if the current 3G strategy remains fixated on only foil and sabre.Why spend money Look at some of the following examples: and time on aweapon that seems to have no support at A. BF selectors chose only one male epeeist to represent Board level? Medal winning is all very laudable to meet GB for the 2011 Senior European Championships in the aspirations of Sport England and sponsors,but it is no Sheffield, when we could have entered at least three more good if the only legacy it leaves behind is the stripping out as the host nation. Not to takethe opportunity to fill these of ageneration of epee fencers. places with our current epee hopefuls seems bizarre! F. It is noted that the British Fencing Performance Manager B. Following Sheffield, anew performance strategy removed is using acomputer program as the primary means for epeeists almost totally,both male and female,from the predicting performance trajectories within fencing. Such a Performance Programme.Epee is the most popular weapon tool may well be useful for some combat sports,but it in the UK; its standard is much higher across the board does not allow for the passion of performance in aweapon and results have widely improved in recent years.Wenow such as epee,which is renowned for its unpredictability. see such incredible successes as Phil Marsh, who at 16 years Look at the names of world championship and Olympic of age has won the Junior World epee title –asuccess that medallists over the past decade.Only six male epeeists seems to have been barely recognised by British Fencing. have won more than one medal, compared with nine or Jon Willis and Georgina Usher continue to compete ten at the other weapons.Inother words,the chances of successfully in amuch larger field internationally with winning amedal from outside the top group are one-third excellent results that certainly echo those chosen for the more likely at men’sepee.That is because there are far present Performance Programme and the world more epeeists in the world rankings –last year 60% more championships at the other two weapons. (men and women) than sabreurs and 70% more than foilists –and consequently medallists come from alarger pool C. There is currently no replacementfor the national epee than the other weapons.Who would have forecasted Jon coach after the resignation of Prof Meschov and any epeeist Willis’sincredible success at the Heidenheim A-grade in now capable of fencing at world-class events seems either 2007!

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So there it is.Epee has apparently been allowed to lose its OPEN LETTER TO BRITISH focus at the highest level. Although it is understood that the British Fencing Selection Panel may select other FENCING fencers for aWorld Championships who have not met BF’s Iamwriting as Chairman of Haverstock Fencing Club to selection criteria, this is very much at the discretion of the express my concern about British Fencing’sapproach to Performance Manager.Ifepee is not even on BF’sagenda developing acompetitive Olympic squad, including recent at present, then the chances of this changing before 2016 decisions in respect of the world championship team seem remote.What then are we to tell parents and fencers selection, and about the future direction of the sport. as to the future of epee? From our viewpoint, it is incredibly dispiriting, particularly as there is so little communication Selection for the world championships will impact on the from the top.The Fencing Forum is full of these concerns, chances of individual fencers being selected for the Olympics. but short of all epee fencers withdrawing their membership It is BF Olympic selection policy to enter the European zonal from the BFA, there seems to be little that epeeists can do qualifying competitions in all eligible weapons,and things to change this apparent anomaly.Our young epeeists such as world ranking and performance at events likethe have the ability –now all they require is to be given the world championships are factors for selection to the zonals motivation to fence for their country before and after –yet only one epeeist has been selected to compete in the 2016. Currently it is just not there. world championships,according to BF’sannouncement of Club Committee 3rd August, which would seem to limit seriously the Wellington Swords chances for epeeists to qualify for the Olympics. Forthe world championships,Britain is sending teams for Performance Manager Alex Newton replies: men’sand women’sfoil and women’ssabre,but not epee. Ihave stated on many occasions that OF COURSE epee is Thecurrently named individual participants are six foilists not being sidelined. But at this immediate time we need (three men, three women), five sabreurs (three women, two to identify where our real chances of fencing success are men) and just one woman epeeist.Awomen’sfoil team has in 2012 to ensure we meet our performance goal with UK been selected despite poor results this year.Individuals in Sport. both the women’sfoil and epee squads have similar world rankings but few notable results,and there is no obvious Since funding was awarded to British Fencing for aworld- rationale behind the selection of one but not the other. classprogramme, we have yet to meet our annual Theselections leave gaps in GB representation at the milestonetarget with UK Sport. Unless we can focus and world championships and create asurprising imbalance target resources over the next few months to turn those between weapons,and yet we have some good epeeists, potential medal chances into reality, we will not be able to including aWorld Cup winner,notwithstanding that epee convince our partners to continue to fund us beyond 2012. is known for its unpredictable results.There are also good people out there who could benefit from international Iappreciate epee is the most popular weapon in the competition and for whom inclusion in the world country –that is why BF is investing significant funds in a championship team would represent asignificant development programme for all weapons. However, the development opportunity in the run-up to the Olympics. funding for the performance programme is to drive up performances and deliver medals. Thecommunication which accompanies the press release announcing the team states that significant powers of Iamnot sure where the rumour started that acomputer selection have been given to the Performance Manager, program is predicting trajectories, but Ihave heard this but that, for reasons of equity and consistency,she elected from anumber of sources. Let me be clear: performances to follow the stated policy,which wasdated the previous and comparison amongst the world’s best is the best November.Iunderstand that in practice aselection panel measure of success. Unfortunately, our performances at a made up of four non-fencers (including the Performance senior level do not measure up against the world’s best. Manager and aUKSport representative)and two foilists gave recommendations to the International Committee to approve. Many people have told me that epee is unpredictable. However, an analysis of results at the significant senior If that understanding is correct, Iwonder how the international competitions shows that it is not luck that selection panel waschosen, by whom and, in particular, wins medals but consistently good fencers ranked in the why wasthe representation of those with afencing top 20 in the world. background apparently so limited? What consideration wasgiven to exploring the potential for epeeists who All weapons are on the BF agenda. But we have to look at might not have precisely met the qualification criteria, but current performances which are not where they should be whose performance internationally taken overall is strong, ayear away from the Olympic Games –ifweare serious or who are coming up through the ranks and could produce about medals. Ihave consistently stated that there will be good results with abit more international experience? amajor review after the world championships when we will identify real medal potential for 2012 and resources Only ayear before the 2012 Olympics we have are- will follow. Beyond that, we will need to rebuild for 2016 vamped world class programme,which has resulted in and of course epee will be included within this. fencers who have dedicated the past few years since 2007 to Olympic selection losing their funding on the basis of Iamalways available to discuss issues and meet with the some fairly narrow criteria, despite their world ranking. At fencing community, as Ihave done many times in my first the lower funding level, junior foilists have been added, 4months in post, and Iammore than happy to meet with presumably based on potential for 2016, yet Phil Marsh, you all. who is the U20 world champion, is not on the programme.

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With only one epeeist on the Performance Manager Alex Alex Agrenich has been working with programme,this suggests that only Newton replies: the world class programme as she will be entered in the zonals,and national epee coach. After the world Selections for the world champion- yet it is difficult to believe that it was championships, we will be in a ships may or may not impact on the not possible to identify other strong position to identify the resources we and promising epeeists who could be chances of individual fencers being need for 2012 and 2016 success. included. In addition, as far as Iam selected for host nation places at the aware there is no published Olympics. It will depend on whether John, Isuggest that you and Imeet development plan for the future of afencer, who has not automatically so that Ican provide you with the epee fencing, and there is no national qualified, is still considered to be a detailed background to the decisions coach for epee. real medal prospect for 2012. If a and answer any further questions Iamalready noticing adeleterious fencer is part of the group we are which might arise as aresult of my looking at developing for 2016, then effect on the morale of epee fencers at response. ■ all levels.Younger fencers are seeing they may be offered ahost nation their role models sidelined, with the place and would not necessarily have effect that their confidence in British been to the 2011 world champion- Fencing is being eroded. This is of ships. The current document for concern to me,given that epee is the selection via ahost nation place is most popular competition weapon. It completely discretionary. should also be of some concern to BF, amongst whose membership I BF has stated that in this Olympic wouldn’t mind betting epeeists year it will send afencer in every represent asignificant group.With no weapon where we have no qualifiers National obvious development structure in to the zonal qualifying competition; place for epee,young fencers will not that includes one male and one Fencing see away ahead to develop their female epeeist should they not Museum fencing at the higher levels of automatically qualify. We are competition, and clubs risk losing currently preparing detailed criteria their senior fencers.That means we lose the valuable experience of top as to who will be selected for the level competition that such fencers zonal competitions. There is nothing bring to aclub such as mine,and it’s to suggest that fencers who have not this experience which helps to bring been to the world championships along the next generations of fencers. will not be selected for the zonals. These are potentially very serious consequences in the longer term, both The women’s foil team qualified for for clubs and for BF. the world championships with aL8 at the European championships. Unless BF intend to use all eight wild card places,orsend afull quota of Although only eight teams entered, fencers to the zonal qualifiers,my there is nothing to suggest that, had impression is that we may be reducing there been more teams, they would our chances of Olympic medals rather not still have come eighth. than increasing them. Ihave no doubt that those concerned at BF have the For clarity, the Performance Manage- best interests of fencing in Britain at ment Group is an advisory panel to heart and that things are being done me. The selections were proposed by with good intentions.However,itis me after detailed conversations with difficult to avoid the impression that a all the GBR coaching staff. The certain lack of balance has crept into International Committee discussed the process and that the implications and confirmed the selections. for the sport long term need further thinking through. Despite the Olympics being only a With no apparent development plan year away, it was critical, if BF is to for epee,Iam fearful that we are achieve its performance target with consigning the most popular weapon UK Sport, to re-vamp the to the wilderness for the foreseeable programme. No new fencers at the future –which includes taking us up development level for 2016 were to 2016. If some of our strong and added; they were all receiving promising epeeists can be included in programme support as part of the the world class performance men’s foil squad –and at this stage programme at this stage,there may it would have wasted considerable be some chance of avoiding this. resources (invested by my John Ince (Prof) predecessor) to remove them only to Chairman, Haverstock Fencing Club reinstate them later.

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omark London 2012, ShirePublications has published afascinating illustrated booklet commemorating the previous two occasions when London hosted the Olympic Games. London T Olympics 1908 and 1948 by Janie Hampton takes alook at some of the intriguing facts and incidents that made those two Games memorable,like: London would never have staged the fourth Olympics in 1908 had Mount Vesuvius not dramatically erupted two yearsearlier.The Games weredue to be held in Rome,but Italy needed all its resources to rebuild Naples. Sybil Newall won the archery event at the age of 53 and remains the oldest woman ever to win Olympic gold. In order to finish in front of the royal box, the length of the marathon from Windsor Castle to the While City stadium was increased to 26 miles,385 yards,adistance that has remained ever since. The 1908 Olympics,the first with an opening ceremony,cost £15,000, or around £1 million in today’smoney. Although Britain was virtually bankrupt in 1948, London was considered the only city in Europe with enough resources to host the first post-war Olympics. Competitorsand officials were accommodated in RAF camps,schools and colleges.Visiting teams wereencouraged to bring food – the Americans brought 15,000 barsofchocolate; the French sent arailway wagon filled with Mouton-Rothschild wine. Mary Glen Haig remembered working until 8pm the day beforefencing and then taking rations from the hospital whereshe worked to the women’scentreatVictoria. She went on to makethe final. Total cost in 1948 was £732,000, about £20 million today,and those Games made aprofit of £29,000 (£850,000 today). Numbersofcompetitorshave grown from 2000 in 1908 to 4000 in 1948 to over 15,000in2012. The booklet is available from ShirePublications,Midland House,West Way, Botley,OxfordOX2 0PH, www.shirebooks.co.uk at £6.99. Malcolm Fare

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Sue Benney and Philip Marsh receive Epee Club medals from club president David Partridge in recognition of their achievement at the Junior World Championship

MERSEYSIDE OPEN years,had never met in aMerseyside final before.Indeed, This year’sMerseyside Open began with aminute’sapplause Benson only just squeezed through from her semi-final, in memory of Dorothy Knowles,who in 1938 founded the holding off adetermined fight-back from Anna Smith to Liverpool Open foil tournament, which evolved into the win by 10-9. Johnson in contrast had swept past Chloe Merseyside Open. Dr Knowles,who died last November at Dickson by aconvincing 15-2 score-line.After conceding the age of 104, won ten women's foil titles,arecord that the first two hits in the final, Johnson fought back to lead stood for nearly 50 years. 3-2 at the first break and proceeded to edge further ahead, leading 10-7 at the second break and eventually converting After two rounds of pools in the men’sfoil,Thomas Corlett this into a15-8 victory to claim her sixth Merseyside title. and Conor Nagle emerged as joint number one seeds.This Thebronze medals were won by Anna Smith and Chloe proved to be an accurate ranking as both came through Dickson. the DE without being taken to double figures to meet in the final. Afascinating fight developed with the lead With 102 competitors,the men’sepee wasthe largest changing hands until the score reached 10-all late in the event ever staged at Merseyside.Only four fencers came second period. Then Corlett edged ahead and the key through the two rounds of pools undefeated but none of moment came when Nagle wasred-carded for covering them managed to reach the final, which wascontested by while landing ariposte at 13-11, which meant that he fell Adam Gordon and defending champion James Harris. three hits behind instead of one.Corlett grasped his Harris had advanced through the DE with relative ease, opportunity and scored the winning hit with acrisp only being taken to double figures once,byScott riposte to takethe title 15-11. Bronze medals went to Chalmers,while Gordon had been pushed harder,needing Conor Sharman and Samuel Ward. a15-14 victory in the semi-final against Neill Tannock. It wasHarris who took control in the final, leading from the Thewomen’sfoil produced two familiar finalists in Lydia start and converting a12-7 lead at the first break into a Johnson and Caroline Benson. Remarkably, the two fencers, 15-9 victory to retain his title.Neill Tannock and Greg who between them have won the title for the last six Carty received the bronze medals.

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Thewomen’sepee wasclosely contested with nearly a Theprimary objective of the HTC is to provide the highest quarter of the field on one defeat or better after two standard of fencing lessons and group tuition in arelaxed rounds of pools.Louise Highton came from behind to and friendly environment. Coaching staff are fundamental defeat Sadie Greetham 13-12 in one semi-final, while to the delivery of this tailored service and everyone had Sophie-Ann St Clair Jones justified her number 1seeding an individual lesson daily.Each of the coaches had vast to reach the final from the top half of the draw.Itwas experience in competitive epee fencing but offered Highton who started the final best, leading 6-4 after three something slightly different. Tristan Parris,recently minutes and 12-9 after six. She continued to protect her appointed to be Director of Fencing at Millfield and afirst lead and clinched victory by 15-11 to joins her sister timer at the camp,established asuperb rapport with Elizabeth as aMerseyside champion. Bronze medals went some of the younger fencers and wasasmash hit. Sergei to Sadie Greetham and Emily Jeanes. Rossalko, currently coach to Jon Willis and aformer Olympian, wasable to show new ideas even to seasoned Thesabre events produced two keenly fought competitions, internationals.Alex Agrenich (national epee coach), Peter despite the absence of both defending champions.After Barratt (national junior coach), Neale Thomas (Tiger winning the men’stitle for the last ten years,Chris Farren Swords), John Ince (Haverstock), Andy Pavaday (Haverstock) opted to participate as areferee this year and wasinvited and Andy Vincent (Stockport) completed the coaching to officiate in the final between Simon Donald and Stephen group. Rocks.Atthe break Rocks led 8-5 and appeared to be in control as he extended his lead to 11-7, but Donald fought back to level at 12-all. Rocks then went ahead 13-12 and Formany campers,the high spot of the week wasfencing 14-13, but wasunable to convert this into victory and it some of the German national squad. Niklas Multerer in wasDonald who received the benefit of the tightest of his blue competition kit turned afew heads.Then again, calls when both lights came on at 14-all. Thomas Nichols this may be because he’sa6’5”German international, and Robert Veitch took the bronze medals. who kindly agreed to fence all comers for two of our training sessions.Simone Briese-Baetke, currently the Unfortunately,last year’swomen’ssabre champion Ellie best female wheelchair fencer in the world, brought two Collier wasinvolved in aroad traffic accident on the way of her team mates with her.They were kept busy by all the to the competition and could not takepart. Thefinal saw camp fencers either wanting to try wheelchair fencing for Jennifer McMillan takeonLaura Hunter-Thomas and, after the first time or renew their battles from the previous the score reached 3-all, it wasMcMillan who moved ahead, year. leading 8-5 at the break and consistently timing her attacks well to convert her lead into a15-10 victory.Bronze This year’scamp cost £500, plus £95 for transport from medallists were Camilla Demicheli and six-time champion the UK. With generous donations from members of the Beth Davidson. fencing public, two young fencers got a50% bursary.We would love to be able to offer bursaries again next year Twospecial presentations were made during the weekend: and if anyone is able to help with this,please contact me the Arthur and Beryl Banks Fair Play Cup,awarded in via the website; the chance to come and train at memory of the long-time chairman and secretary of the Tauberbischofsheim is atruly inspiring experience.Photos tournament, waspresented to Neill Tannock, and the BFA and videos can be viewed on the website: Diamond Jubilee Fair Play Cup wasawarded to Anna www.haverstocktrainingcamp.com. Smith. Gary Longthorn JonWillis

HAVERSTOCK TRAINING CAMP This year,84epeeists from six nations came together at the end of August to sharpen their fencing skills for aweek at the Haverstock Training Camp in Germany.The experience of Olympiastützpunkt Tauberbischofsheim is alittle overwhelming, even if you're aregular.Going in through the foyer,you walk down along corridor lined with trophies, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia from past triumphs at Olympic and world championships.Beyond it you reach the accommodation block and vast training halls with over 40 metallic pistes,overhead score gantries and walls decked out with club banners.

Thepacked programme involved free fencing, scenario fencing and small group sessions,working closely with a specialist coach. Co-ordination, strength and conditioning, target work and, of course,footwork were all time- tabled. Fencers did as much or as little as they wanted. If Coaches (from left): Andy Pavaday, Neale Thomas, Andy Vincent, they wanted more at the end of the scheduled activities, Alex Agrenich, Peter Barrett, Tristan Parris, Sergei Rossalko, John Ince there wasagym, swimming pool and sauna on site.

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CLUB NEWS Gravesham Fencing Club celebrated its 25th anniversary in August with as tournament and reception at Gravesend Grammar School. TheMayor of Gravesham, Singh Dhesi, presented medals to the tournament winners and spokeof the success the club has achieved in building links with the local community over the years.Club President John Anderson washonoured with amedal acknowledging the major contribution he has made to relations between Gravesham and its French twin town of Cambrai over the past two decades. Theclub started in 1986 as an initiative by Gravesham Borough Council and now has over 60 members.Professor Alf Simmonds wasrecruited to initiate introductory courses,which were held in the rather damp surroundings of the Gravesham open-air swimming pool. Among those Young fencers at Gravesham (DE Photos) attracted wasayoung lad called Scott Greenwood, who is now captain of the club. In the 1990s half adozen Gravesham fencers regularly Press publicity attracted several retired fencers,notably qualified for the British age-group finals.The first medallist Lionel Martin, Clive Wren and Derek Collier.John wasFiona Wilford who came second in the under-12 foil in Anderson, who wasthen fencing with two of his children 1993. She subsequently enjoyed asuccessful career with at Maidstone,was directly recruited by the County Fencing the club,including winning first place in the Kent senior Union. Theclub spent its early years at Gravesend epee.Both Simon Blackburn and Paul Ganuszkohad a Grammar School with around 18 members,but started to string of medals while with the club,closely followed by takeoff when it moved to the newly built Cygnet Leisure Scott Chambers,who wasrunner-up in the Kent senior foil. Centre in 1990. The10th anniversary of the club wasmarked by amatch Prof Simmonds wasaninspiring, if idiosyncratic, coach and between current and former members of the club and a young beginners responded well to his coaching. Early dramatic and swashbuckling play put on by the younger successes in local competitions were achieved by Scott fencers,which infringed every present-day health and Greenwood, Michael Anderson and Mark Taylor.In1990, safety rule.Fortunately everybody survived unscathed. the club approached Cambrai to see whether they were interested in an exchange.The first trip involved two young At the end of 1997, Prof Simmonds retired as coach at the age fencers,Simon Blackburn and Paul Ganuszko, who fenced of 76 and wassucceeded by Chris Penney,who immediately in alocal competition. There followed areturn visit by four proved his value to the club.From the early 2000s some of French youngsters,who fenced in the under-17 foil Gravesham’smost successful fencers emerged: Peter Barwell, tournament at Portslade.One of this group was13-year- Alek Makucewicz, Miles Gandolfi and Ben Andrews.In2004 old Loic Attelly,who went on to become amember of the the club had two national age-group champions: Barwell French foil team and gained asilver medal at the Nimes won the under-14 foil (having taken the under-12 title in world championships. 2003) and Makucewicz won the under-12 foil. In 2006 Rajan Rai won another national title for Gravesham by taking the gold medal in the British under-10 foil. When Chris Penney had to withdraw as coach due to ill-health, he wassucceeded by Marc Chapman, who is now assisted by former member,Taran Nicholls,asepee coach. Among current potential stars are epeeists Joe Joyner (bronze medallist in the 2010 under-16 championships), Cameron Prior and Tyler Lucas. Theclub has always been active in promoting fencing to the local community, but has expanded this in recent seasons through the enthusiasm of Scott Greenwood and Catherine Gandolfi, who has particularly promoted the use of mini-fence (foam/plastic swords). Formore details contact the club Secretary on 01689 831826 or visit Mayor Singh Dhesi with Gravesham and Cambrai fencers (DE Photos) www.graveshamfencing.org.uk. Amini-fencer (DE Photos) The 42 SWORD Young Fencer

UK SCHOOL GAMES Kristjan Archer (ENG) leaps into Photo-report by Aidan Byrne acounter-attack against Casey Avril (SCO) Englandswept the board at the 2011 Sainsbury’sUKSchool Games,winning all the events,both individual and team.

Soji Aiyenuro (ENG) on his way to victory over Michael Hering (SCO) in the quarter-finals of the boys’ sabre

Archer beats team-mate Amol Rattan in the boys’ foil final

Leah King (ENG) lunges through Stephanie Collister’s (WAL) defence in the girls’ foil final The SWORD 43 Young Fencer

Toni Denham (ENG) picks off Anna Jackson (NIR) in the girls’ epee

Simultaneous hits from England team-mates Leonora Mackinnon (left) and Amy Radford in the girls’ epee quarter-finals

NEWHAM LPJS FOIL: ENTRYFORM 3/4 DECEMBER2011 NEWHAM LPJS: 3/4.12.2011 Event...... (Boys/Girls) Venue: Newham LeisureCentre, 281 Prince Regent Lane, London E13 8SD Events Check-in closes Date of Birth ...... BFANo:...... Saturday 4th U11 Boys 09.00 LP Unique ID Code...... (Consisting U15 Boys 10.00 of your initials followed by your date of birth in the format U13 Girls 11.30 DDMMYY,and then your sex, either MorF.Ignore all middle U17 Boys &Girls 12.30 names. Forexample, afencer named Lewis Day born on 16 June Sunday 5th U13 Boys 09.00 1995 would have aunique ID code of LD160695M). U11 Girls 10.00 Name:...... U9 Boys &Girls 11.30 U15 Girls 12.00 Address:...... Entry Fee: £17 Cheques payable to: Newham Swords Fencing Club ...... Entries to: Linda Strachan, 15 Brock Road, Plaistow, London E15 8NA. Telephone:...... Tel: 07956 618898. Email:...... Closing Date: 29 November 2011 Club...... Entry Fee:...... Notes: Age as at 1January 2012. Medals awarded to top four fencers. Iaccept that the organisers, officials, referees, sponsors and Newham Certificates for all competitors. BF membership confirmation must be shown Leisure Centre cannot be held responsible for anyaccident, loss or at check in. U9s must use size 0blades; U11s &U13s must use size 3blades damage sustained at the event. or smaller.All fencers must wear 350N jacket &breeches. U9s, U11s & U13s must wear a350N plastron. U15s &U17s must wear an 800N plastron. Signed:...... Date:...... Armoury will be present. Large free car park available. (Parent/Guardian)

The 44 SWORD Young Fencer Toni Denham, winner of the girls’ epee

Chiara McDermott (ENG) deceives King in the semi-finals

FRENCH REFEREEING COURSE went over the road where we spent awhile white-water Elen Tomlinson and Iwere chosen by the Referees rafting, which wasamazing. Imet so many great people Committee to go to ayoung referees’ camp in Vichy, and had afantastic time.Iam so grateful that Iwas given France,which at the same time wasatraining camp for this opportunity and would urge anyone who sees an the best U15 fencers from all weapons in France.This advert on the BFAwebsite for such acourse to apply. meant that nothing but the highest standard of fencing Sean Grundy,18 wasavailable to practice refereeing. Iwas picked up from the train station by the course leader SCHOOL COACHMOVES ON and driven to the place where the camp wasbeing held. Thevenue itself wasbrilliant; it had two large fencing After 10 years as fencing coach at St Benedict’sSchool, halls,one with fixings for easily laying out pistes and the Ealing, Matthew Gale has moved with his family to other wasapermanent fencing salle,which had various Cornwall. Over the past 5years,hehas built up the club memorabilia on the walls from French competitions and from nothing to over one hundred pupils.Atafarewell Olympics.One of the halls wasinabuilding which party,Ania Foote spokefor all the parents when she said, overlooked arowing lake, so the scenery wasfantastic. “Everyone has grown very fond of Matthew and we On the first morning the 13 referees on the course were up wanted to express our relatively early for ajog around the campus,which was gratitude for his huge,complete with playing fields,courts and pitches for enthusiasm and hard avast number of sports.Wethen played some Frisbee; this work over the years. wasthe timetable for most mornings.The main meeting Theclub is never point of the camp wasthe ‘red room’, where most of the going to be quite the lectures and presentations took place.After having a same,although we look presentation about the rules and penalties,wedid some forward to working with refereeing in the fencing hall; during this we were our new coach Akos assessed on all aspects of our refereeing and given tips. Marinki, amember of the Throughout the course we had presentations on various Hungarian foil squad topics,including child protection and anti-doping, as well in 1999. ■ as aquestion and answer session with French FIE referees Bruno Gaby and Pascale Mage.Itwas great to hear experiences from well respected referees.Towards the end of the week we refereed acompetition and were assessed as part of aFrench refereeing exam. On the last day we were split into two groups for activities.Firstly,mygroup went to the rowing laketodo some kayak polo,which wassomuch fun. After that we Akos Marinki

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11. KEMP John (BRADFORD UNI) COMBINED Girls U13 (9) Girls U11 (3) 1. WHITFIELD Madeleine (LASZLOS) 1. ABEL Sadie (LASZLOS) 12. SPENCER-TAYLOR Alex EVENTS – ABROAD 2. COPE Aimee (KISS) 2. LOUIS Avery(ESCRIME) (WAKEFIELD) 3= CORBY Jessica (WEST FIFE) 13. SMITH Christopher (USA) 3= WEBB (LASZLOS) 14. ROBERTSON Mark (WREXHAM) Girls U9 (1) 15. WOOD Chris (RADCLIFFE) WORLD UNIVERSITY 1. DICKSON Rebecca (DUNFERMLINE) 16. HOUGHTON Jacob (ABERGELE) GAMES: 13/18.8.11 Girls U11 (15) 1. DUNGAYKatrina (DUNFERMLINE) Women’sFoil (15) Men’sFoil 2. LOUIS Avery(ESCRIME) 3= BROWN Madeleine (LASZLOS) SABRE 1. BENSON Carolyn L8 –Husayn Rosowsky 3= HUGHES Phoebe (DURHAM) Boys U17 (8) (ABERYSTWYTH UNI) 5. JONES Rachel (KISS) 2. ROBINSON Elinor (CARDIFF) 1. DE SAINTE CROIX Calum 6. HULLS Madeleine (FRA) 3= FITTON Alexandra (KISS) [WALLACE) 7. BLACK Mirren (KINGSTON) 2. ADAMS James (WALLACE) 3= DIFFORD Abi (CARDIFF UNI) 8. NEWTON-HUGHES Phoebe (KISS) 3= REYNOLDS Finlay (WALLACE) 5. LAMB Sarah (MELIA) COMBINED 3= THOMSON Andrew (WALLACE) 6. CHINN Liz (PRESTON) EVENTS – HOME Girls U9 (4) 7. RHODES Ann (BRISTOL) 1. WALKER Matilda (KISS) Boys U15 (10) 8. BRYCE Ellie (ABERYSTWYTH UNI) 2. WEEKS Charity (LASZLOS) 1. LINDLEY Thomas (RIVINGTON Men’sEpee (47) SCOTLAND LPJS: 4.6.11 PARK) 2. SPENCER Nick (TRURO) 1. HARRIS James (PLYMOUTH) FOIL EPEE 3= CHEUNG Joshua (FOYLE &LON) 2. HUGHES Ben (U/A) 3= MURRAYBrian (FOYLE &LON) 3= WARD Granville (MARY Boys U17 (10) Boys U17 (7) HAWDON) 1. DE SAINTE CROIX Calum 1. DE SAINTE CROIX Calum Boys U13 (2) 3= STOKES Nick (LEEDS) [WALLACE) 5. HEAPS Chris (BLACKPOOL) [WALLACE) 2. McCOURTMichael (WALLACE) 1. LINDSAYChristian (ESCRIME) 6. HAZLEWOOD Darryl (FRISBY) 2. McCOURTMichael (WALLACE) 3= ADAMS James (WALLACE) 7. HARRINGTON James (CARDIFF) 3= THOMPSON Robin (WALLACE) 3= MACKAYCallum (WALLACE) Boys U11 (5) 8. VANGemeron (EVERT 3= THOMSON Andrew (WALLACE) 1. ALVARES-PERES Mark [Wingerworth) Boys U15 (12) (DUNFERMLINE) 9. ROWE-HAYNES Max Boys U15 (15) 1. REILLYAhron (DUNFERMLINE) 2. CARTER Toby (WEST FIFE) (APOCALYPSE) 1. RENNIE Peter (EFC) 2. McGILLIVRAYKeir (WREXHAM) 10. GALTREY Robert (HARROGATE) 2. MILBURN Bradley (LASZLOS) 3= BURNSIDE Jonathan (FOYLE &LON) Girls U17 (2) 11. KNOWLES Alan (SWINDON) 3= MANSON Ross (WALLACE) 3= PRICE Jamie (FOYLE &LON) 12. BOLTON Matt (FRISBY) 1. DICKSON Chloe (DUNFERMLINE) 3= WYNN Gareth (ABERDEEN) 5. HOFFMANN Tom(DINGWALL) 13. HIAM David (SHREWSBURY) 6. DOUGLAS Jack (WALLACE) 14. MASSEY Oliver (ABERYSTWYTH) 5. MAYJoseph (LASZLOS) 7. MANSON Ross (WALLACE) 6. DOUGLAS Jack (WALLACE) Girls U15 (3) 15. HUGHES Adam (SKIPTON) 8. YEATS Alan (WALLACE) 16. WILLIS Scott (NEWTON ABBOT) 7. YEATS Alan (WALLACE) 1. HAMPSON Sarah-Jane (WEST 8. HOPKINS Oliver (NORTHUMBRIA) FIFE) Boys U13 (8) 2. MARSHALL Kathryn (FOYLE &LON) Women’sEpee (11) Boys U13 (10) 1. MORRIS George (WREXHAM) 1. GREETHAM Sadie (HARROGATE) 2. LUCAS Tyler (GRAVESHAM) Girls U13 (2) 2. GALTREY Jodie (HARROGATE) 1. PHILIPS-LANGLEY Thomas 3= DULAC Joseph (ESCRIME) (DUNES) 1. CORBY Jessica (WEST FIFE) 3= BENSON Carolyn 3= JORDAN Owen (KELSBY) (ABERYSTWYTH UNI) 2. WEEKS Harry(LASZLOS) 3= PEATSally (BLADES) 3= BULMAN Kai (LASZLOS) Boys U11 (8) Girls U11 (2) 3= NICOL Ethan (ROLLO) 1. GARWOOD-WATKINS Joshua 1. LOUIS Avery(ESCRIME) Men’sSabre (16) (BRIXTON) Boys U11 (5) 2. ALVARES-PERES Mark Girls U9 (1) 1. WILLIAMS Griff (MILLFIELD) 2. RILEY Danny (RIVINGTON Park) 1. DEERING Maximilian(126) (DUNFERMLINE) 1. DICKSON Rebecca (DUNFERMLINE) 3= VANGemeron (EVERT 2. MORRISON Duncan (WEST FIFE) 3= ANDREWS Benjamin (PLYMOUTH) 3= SELLS Alexander (PLYMOUTH) [Wingerworth) 3= BOWLEY Stan (SKIPTON) Boys U9 (4) Girls U17 (3) WREXHAM OPEN: 5. McKENZIE Killion 1. BRADIE Angus (FENCING FUN) (ABERYSTWYTH) 2. STEELE Gabriel (WEST FIFE) 1. DICKSON Chloe (DUNFERMLINE) 11/12.6.11 6. POTTER Steve (STOURBRIDGE) 2. WYNN Amber (ABERDEEN) Men’sFoil (27) 7. MADDOX Tom(ABERYSTWYTH Girls U17 (5) UNI) Girls U15 (5) 1. CORLETT Thomas (KISS) 8. ELLWOOD Steve (DDRAIG WERN) 1. DICKSON Chloe (DUNFERMLINE) 2. SIBERTEdward (U/A) 1. DULAC Emma (ESCRIME) 2. GORDON Heather (WALLACE) 3= WILDE Ronan (A&C) 2. KAMATMaya (WALLACE) 3= STOKES Nick (LEEDS) Women’sSabre (10) 5. SCHLINDWEIN Alex (STRETTON) 1. POTTER Emma (BIRMINGHAM Girls U15 (7) Girls U13 (8) 6. SAVAGE Alastair (ASHTON) CITY UNI) 1. EDWARDS Asha (LASZLOS) 1. HIDE Amelia (HARROGATE) 7. MASSEY Oliver (ABERYSTWYTH) 2. SANGER Kevanne (SWINDON) 2. SMITH Katie (EDINBURGH) 2. WHITFIELD Madeleine (LASZLOS) 8. DAWKINS Jonathan (BRISTOL) 3= TREMBLE Nichola 3= MORRISON Ailsa (EDINBURGH) 3= DICKSON Lauren (DUNFERMLINE) 9. SMITH Gareth (U/A) (ABERYSTWYTH UNI) 3= MOSS Amber (LOUTH) 3= HIDE Victoria (HARROGATE) 10. ROSE Darren (RADCLIFFE) 3= LANGLEY Karen (BANGOR UNI)

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LONDON OPEN: 13. HARTAnna (PAUL) Men’sSabre (12) U11 Boys Foil (10) 14. SEGALL Emma-Tina (SURREY 1. BALES Michael (CADS) 1. CROMIE Eoghan [TRURO] 18/19.6.11 SWORDS) 2. BETTLE William (CADS) 2. MANNING Finn [SIDMOUTH] 15. SEGALL Grace (SURREY Men’sFoil (36) 3= DOWSE Niall (MX) 3= MASON Luke [CHURCHILL] SWORDS) 3= BAXTER-ALLEN Cameron [MILL 1. GROS Xavier (FRA) 16. BEAVERS Elizabeth (CADS) 3= NICKEL Joe (CITY) 2. HOLDER Peter (PAUL) 5. LEMON Jonathan (CITY) PREP] 3= ALI Xavier (MOR) Men’sEpee (42) 6. HENSON Alexander (NORFOLK) 3= MARINKI Akos (HUN) 7. GILLAN Jason (UEA) U9 Boys (5) 5. LIM Alexander CAN (BOSTON 1. MARSH Philip (BATH) 8. JACKSON Christopher (SUSSEX 1. SEARGENT Alex [MILL PREP] 6. COOKE Christopher (IRL) 2. LANE Tristan (LTFC) UNI) 2. WILLOUGHBY Luke 7. MACCHIAROLA Alessandro 3= HARRIS James (PLYMOUTH) [GLASTONBURY] (BOSTON) 3= PAOLASINI Lorenzo Women’sSabre (3) 3= WACHS Adam [GLOUCESTER] 8. WILD Chris (CARDIFF UNI) (HAVERSTOCK) 3= GRAYThomas [GLASTONBURY] 9. GUPTAGaurav (BOSTON) 5. PINKERTON Stephen (TRURO) 1. CARSON Victoria (CITY) 6. KELLYChris (HAVERSTOCK) 2. GLADDISH Laura (MX) 10. ABIDOGUN Kola (BOSTON) U13 Girls (4) 11. WILLIAMS Steven BOSTON 7. FARINA Gianluca (HAVERSTOCK) 12. DONOVAN Alex (FIGHTING FIT) 8. ORGE Alp (LTFC) 1. PLAYDELL Tilly [REDMAIDS] 13. JENNINGS Chris (PAUL) 9. AJZENSTADT Ido (ISR) DUNSTAN OPEN: 2. WHARTON Elizabeth [WYCLIFFE] 14. SADIQ Hussain (ACADEMY) 10. BEAUMONT Edward (READING) 15. SIBERTEdward (ARNOLD & 11. HAYChris (WELLINGTON) 19.6.11 U11 Girls (5) CARLTON) 12. CURRAN JONES Tommy (BRIXTON) Mixed Foil (19) 1. ACTON-PETERS Suki [BATH] 16. BEARDMORE Alexander 2. GRANVILLE Bronwen [BATH] (FIGHTING FIT) 12. DOMEK Stephen (HAVERSTOCK) 1. JANICEK Ondrej [WELLINGTON] 14. THOMAS Gareth (TIGER) 2. HALE Caron [RAVEN] 3= KUEHNE Ottilie [BARNSTABLE] 3= HOWARD Jessica [BATH] Women’sFoil (26) 15. HARDING Tim(REDHILL) 3. WILSON Daniel [WELLINGTON] 16. SANCHEZ-LETHEM Paul 4. BERNSTEIN Richard [MILLFIELD] 1. UJLAKY Virginie (FRA) (BRIXTON) 5. HALL Adam [BATH] U9 Girls (2) 2. SHEPPARD Natalia (U/A) 6. MERRICK Astrid [BRISTOL] 1. DE ST PAER Isabel 3= ROULIN Maëva (ANTONY) 7. JONES Kenny [CITY] [GLASTONBURY] 3= SIBERTCatriona (EDINBURGH) Women’sEpee (15) 8. MULCHARYIsaac 2. ZAKU Morgan [MILL PREP] 5. NG Elizabeth (ALDERSHOT) 1. MACKINNON Leonora (MALVERN) [GLASTONBURY] 6. COOK Catherine (U/A) 2. CROOK Jayne (HAVERSTOCK) 7. BAILEY Victoria (ANTONY) 3= HENSON Julie (NORFOLK) Mixed Epee (22) 8. DUHEM Charlotte (ANTONY) 3= MAYLE Rebecca (MALVERN) U13 Boys (10) 1. HODGSON Ben [WELLINGTON] 9. HYMAN Amy (SHEFFIELD UNI) 5. FANNON Beatrice (CARDIFF) 1. BEATY Alfred [GLASTONBURY] 2. HAYChris [WELLINGTON] 10. KING Leah (FIGHTING FIT) 6. STELZER Victoria (AUT) 2. WEBSTER-KHAN Luke [BRISTOL] 3. BURR Lawrence [GLASTONBURY] 11. KWOK Rachel (ACADEMY) 7. MASON Mariette (CADS) 3= CROSSLEY Alaistair [MILL PREP] 4. HANNEY Mike [BATH] 12. McDERMOTT Chiara (CRAWLEY) 8. RUSSELL Charlotte (MALVERN) 3= LEWIS Celyn [RUSSEL] 5. BROOKS Rob [RAVEN]

The SWORD 47 Results

6. WEDGE-THOMAS Raoul Women’sEpee (18) Women (13) [WELLINGTON] FOIL – HOME 1. STEINER Christine (GADASKI) 1. HENSON Julie (NORFOLK) 7. DAVENPORTRobin [SCARAMOUCHE] 2. TULEN Carmel [NED) 2. ELYS Laycy (CITY) 8. PARR William [WELLINGTON] 3= GOODLASS Molly (YORKSHIRE ACADEMY YOUTH CUP: 3= GLOGOWSKI Maribel (U/A) Mixed U14 (8) PENTATHLON) 3= EARL Silvia (HUNTINGDON) 3= PHILLIPSON Elsa (CADS) 2.7.11 5. CLARKE Heather (WICKFORD) 1. HARLE Joshua [BATH] 5. TULEN Lola [NED) U14 Boys (14) 6. EASTER Helen (MAIDSTONE) 2. CARTER-HUGHES Jack 6. SPINLOVE Eryn (BIRMINGHAM UNI) 7. CRANK Tara (TIGER) 1. PAGES Thomas [FRA] [GLASTONBURY] 7. TURNBULL Fiona (CAMBRIDGESHIRE) 8. CLEMENTS Maxine 2. DEERING Max [126] 3= WILLIAMS-STILES Hannah 8. ONIYE Marg (LTFC) (EASTBOURNE) [LAWRENCE] 3= BACHELARD-BAKAL Alexander 3= CROMIE Conall [TRURO] Men’sSabre (9) [ACADEMY] 3= CHAYENKO Nicolas [FRA] Mixed U11 (7) 1. NICHOLLS Thomas (CHILWELL) 5. HOBSON Finn [ST.BENEDICTS] 2. BALES Michael (CADS) 6. KAMERON Nikolas [FIGHTING FIT] BILL HOSKYNS OPEN: 1. BERRYReece [GLASTONBURY] 3= GILLAN Jason (UEA) 2. BIRCH Charlie [GLASTONBURY] 7. CARSE Hector [ACADEMY] 2/3.7.11 3= HENSON Alex (NORFOLK) 8. BOST Benoit [FRA] 3. PARSONS Katie-May [MILL PREP] Men (78) 4. MARSH Brendan PPLYMOUTH] Women’sSabre (8) U14 Girls (4) 1. BURKHALTER Marc[OXFORD UNI] U9 (1) 1. LUFF Sarah (BIRMINGHAM) 1. TANG Sophie [FRA] 2. THOMAS Gareth [TIGER 2. HEALYLaura (ESQUIVE) 2. GELPEROWIC Marianne [FRA] SWORDS] 1. DUNCOMBE Quinn (Plymouth) 3= EARL Silvia (BIDFORD) 3= HARRIS James [PLYMOUTH] 3= RUSSEN Tracy (NORFOLK) U12 Boys (5) 3= HENDERSON Matthew [EDINBURGH] 1. DE-ALMEDIA Dominic [FIGHTING 5. HAYChris [WELLINGTON] NORFOLK OPEN: FIT] 6. FARMER Alex [NEWCASTLE] 17/17.7.11 UK SCHOOL GAMES: 2. DUFEU Elie [FRA] 1-4.9.11 7. RIDLEY Sam [NEWCASTLE] Men’sFoil (53) U12 Girls (4) 8. SCRIMSHAWJason [LTFC] 9. EDWARDS Tom[REDHILL & 1. HENDRIE Tom(SUSSEX HOUSE) Boys Foil (16) 1. CAMPBELL Yasmin [FIGHTING FIT] REIGATE] 2. HENDRIE George (SUSSEX HOUSE) 1. ARCHER Kristjan (ENG) 2. FOOTE Camena [ACADEMY] 10. NORTHAM Stephen 3= LIM Alex (BOSTON) 2. RATTAN Amol (ENG) [BIRMINGHAM] 3= WARD Sam (CHILWELL) 3= AVRIL Casey (SCO) U10 Boys (10) 11. HARRINGTON James [CARDIFF] 5. SADIQ Hussain (ACADEMY) 3= WATSON Jack (SCO) 1. UDRZAL Benjamin [NEWHAM] 12. GORDON Adam [EDINBURGH] 6. CHU Andrew (LOUTH) 5. DE SAINTE CROIX Calum (SCO) 2. PLATONOV-GARDNER Arthur 13= EDGAR Matt [BATH] 7. MACCHIAROLA Alessandro (BOSTON) 6. CHERITON Kareem (ENG) [EATON SQUARE] 8. HESLOP Adam (CAPITAL) 7. RIDSDALE Ethan (WAL) 13= PINKERTON Stephen [TRURO] 3= DELIBES Andreas [FRA] 9. WEST Philip (DRAGON) 8. OSTACCHINI Scott (SCO) 15. RIAHI Farhad [HAVERSTOCK] 10. ALLEN Richard (BOSTON) 3= MACKINLAYSamuel [FIGHTING FIT] 16. HORNBY Edgar [EGHAM] 11. SAGE Richard (LANSDOWNE) Girls Foil (16) 17. BEAUMONT Edward [READING] 12. TROIANO John (LANSDOWNE) U10 Girls (5) 18. MONYARD Alexander [MELIA] 13. THURSTON Dan (AFFONDO) 1. KING Leah (ENG) 1. MOUAZIZ Kamilia-Amel [NEWHAM] 19. FROMONT Georges [BEL] 14. OSTACCHI Glen (BOSTON) 2. COLLISTER Stephanie (WAL) 2. MOND Amanda [FINCHLEY] 20. MILLER Daniel [RAVEN] 15. WYLIE Ali (U/A) 3= CRAIG Alex (ENG) 21. GUNPUT Satya [OXFORD UNI] 16. MORRIS Richard (MELIA) 3= McDERMOTT Chiara (ENG) 22. GALTREY Robert [HARROGATE] 17. QUESTIER Michael (CRAWLEY) 5. LINEHAM Amy (ENG) 23. NICHOLLS Taran [REDHILL & 6. DICKSON Chloe (SCO) 18. MALDOOM Edz (SAXON) EPEE – HOME REIGATE] 19. ROSE James (NORFOLK ACADEMY) 7. CLARKE Ruth (SCO) 24. BULLWARD Alistair [U/A] 20. CHU David (LOUTH) 8. TOMLINSON Elen (SCO) 25. SANCHEZ-LETHEM Paul 21. DARROUX Steve SMJ) BEXLEY OPEN: 11.6.11 [BRIXTON] 22. MOLLARD Christopher (SAXON) Boys Epee (16) 26. GREALEY William [TIGER] 23. JENNINGS Chris (PAUL) 1. FREWIN James (ENG) Men (59) 27. ROWE-HAYNES Max 24. BENNETT Freddy CAMBRIDGE) 2. THOMSON Campbell (SCO) 1. TREDGER Dudley (CRAWLEY) [APOCALYPSE] 25. PARSONS Thomas (CYRANO) 3= EDWARDS Tom(WAL) 2. HARDING Tim(REDHILL &REIGATE) 28. BARNES Jahmal [BRIXTON] 26. BROSNAN James (PAUL) 3= PINKERTON Steven (NIR) 3= BRYANWayne (CADS) 29. DOMEK Stephen [HAVERSTOCK] 27. SCHLINDWEIN Alex (U/A) 5. RIDLEY Sam (ENG) 3= ORGE Alp (LTFC) 30. ROWLAND Matt [STOURPORT] 28. DODSWORTH Rhys CYRANO) 6. SIMPSON Jamie (NIR) 5. EDWARDS Tom(REDHILL & 31. HOULIHAN Jonathon [WARWICK] 29. IGALI Joseph (NORFOLK ACADEMY) 7. ARNOLD Daniel (WAL) REIGATE) 32. FOLKES-MILLER Caine 30. TOPP Stephen (BOSTON) 8. LITTLER Joe (ENG) 6. WEST Howard (LTFC) [HAVERSTOCK] 31. GUPTAGaurav (BOSTON) 7. NICHOLS Harrison (REDHILL & 32. BROADBENT Dale (MAIDSTONE) Girls Epee (16) REIGATE) Women (32) Women’sFoil (22) 1. DENHAM Toni (ENG) 8. LINDGREN Carl (SWE) 1. McGEEVER Jenny [WELLINGTON] 2. CHANG Caitlin (ENG) 9. NORRIS Andrew (CHICHESTER] 2. POWELL Elisabeth [MELIA] 1. NG Elizabeth (ALDERSHOT) 3= LAMBERTJustine (SCO) 10. DAVENPORTRobin 3= BARRINGTON Georgina 2. TULEN Carmel (NED) 3= MACKINNON Leonora (ENG) (SCARAMOUCHE) [PLYMOUTH] 3= KWOK Rachel (ACADEMY) 5. RADFORD Amy (ENG) 11. ASH Tom(BATH) 3= MACKINNON Leonora [MALVERN] 3= TULEN Lola (NED) 6. JAMES Miratha (WAL) 12. CHARMAN Joe (GRAVESHAM) 5. BOWERS Jacquelynne [LTFC] 5. McDERMOTT Chiara (CRAWLEY) 7. WOODROW Megan (NIR) 13. GIBBS Matthew (BEXLEY) 6. HARVEY Abigail [NEWCASTLE] 6. TOWNSEND Dawn (SWAY) 14. LEITHES Alex (LTFC) 8. McSORLEY Eimilie (NIR) 7. DENHAM Toni [WELLINGTON] 7. KWOK Charlie (A&C) 15. JORDAN Philip (U/A) 8. RADFORD Amy [U/A] 8. NICHOLS Zoe (CENTRAL LONDON) Boys Sabre (16) 16. LOWE David (STREATHAM) 9. MAYLE Rebecca [MALVERN] 17. FOLKES-MILLER Caine (CADS) 10. GREETHAM Sadie [HARROGATE] 1. AIYENURO Soji (ENG) Men’sEpee (36) 18. NICHOLLS Taran (REDHILL & 11. DACK Helen [NORTHUMBRIA] 1. SANCHEZ-LETHEM Paul (BRIXTON) 2. BOTELER Harry(ENG) REIGATE) 3= SLANKARD Kirk (ENG) 12. GALTREY Jodie [HARROGATE] 2. OOSTHOF Colin [NED) 19. BEASLEY Paul (EASTBOURNE) 13. SUMMERS Francesca [MALVERN] 3= DALTON Matthew (HUNTINGDON) 3= VEITCH Robert (SCO) 20. LOWE Tom(STREATHAM) 5. HERING Michael (SCO) 14. KETTLE Gabby [MELIA] 3= PHILLIPSON Andrew (CADS) 21. HARKER Mike (CRAWLEY) 15. GOODLASS Molly [YORKSHIRE 5. SINCLAIR Aml (BRIXTON) 6. ARTESI Gianfranco (ENG) 22. SMITH Oliver (CRAWLEY) 7. SCOTT Stuart (SCO) PENTATHLON] 6. BRYANWayne (CADS) 23. MILLER Will (EASTBOURNE) 16. WIVELL Madeleine [HARROGATE] 7. BOLTON Matt (FRISBY) 8. DOWSE Niall (NIR) 24. WALKER Paul (STREATHAM) 8. LEITHES Alexander (LTFC) 25. BEADLE Peter (CHICHESTER) 9. BROWN Andrew [HUNTINGDON) Girls Sabre (16) 26. PINK Simon (TUNBRIDGE WELLS) Boys (21) 10. STEINER Adam (GADASKI) 1. ITZKOWITZ Aliya (ENG) 27. BROADBENT Dale (MAIDSTONE) 1. JORDAN Owen [FRISBY] 11. TOWNSON Paul (CADS) 2. SOSNOWSKA Izabela (ENG) 28. CHRISP Tom(WINGERWORTH) 2. WHITELAWAdam [ELTHAM COL] 12. CHAMBERLAIN Martin 3= CARSON Victoria (SCO) 29. STUARTJosh (REDHILL &REIGATE] 3= LUCAS Tyler [U/A] (NORTHAMPTON) 3= RUAUX Emily (ENG) 30. KARLIN David (FRENCH FENCING 3= MORRIS George [CHESTER] 13. RODRIGUEZ Jamie (AFFONDO) 5. SPENCE Niamh (NIR) FACTORY) 5= DULAC Joseph [ESCRIME] 14. COLETTI Emmanuel (BEDFORD) 6. JONES Libby (WAL) 31. EDWARDS Alex (REDHILL & 5= STEVENS Joshua [GLASTONBURY] 15. TOOLIS Thomas (HAVERSTOCK) 7. YATES Georgia (ENG) REIGATE) 7. DICKSON Thomas [NEWCASTLE] 16. LINDGREN Carl [SWE) 8. HARRIS Philippa (WAL) 32. GIDDINGS Steven (WIMBLEDON) 8. HARDWICK Nathan [BIRCHFIELD]

The 48 SWORD

Results

Girls (11) 6. CLARKE Heather (WICKFORD) Girls U17 (2) 3= AIYENURO Soji (CAMDEN) 1. SIMMS-LYMN Tia[PLYMOUTH] 7. GLOGOWSKI Maribel (LTFC) 1. GREETHAM Sadie (HARROGATE) 3= SLANKARD Kirk (CITY) 2. JEAL Anna [HARROGATE] 8. ROVESTI Elena (MAIDSTONE) 2. RUSSELL Charlotte (ALDERSHOT) 5. RATNESWARAN Maiyuran 3= HIDE Victoria [HARROGATE] (IMPERIAL) 3= LAWSON Danielle [RGS Girls U15 (6) 6. CLARKE Michael (TRURO) WORCESTER] ARNOLD LPJS: 10.7.11 1. BOYLE Hannah (SHEFFIELD 7. WILLIAMS Nick (NLSC) BUCANEERS) 8. NICKEL Joe (CITY) Boys U17 (3) 2. SHEEHAN Zoe (SWINDON) 9. FOTHERBY Will (XIPHOI) 3= DULAC Emma (ESCRIME) 1. GROVER Elliott (Eltham Col] 10. NICHOLLS Thomas (CHILWELL) CAMBRIDGE OPEN AIR: 3= BLACKWOOD Eleanor (ACTIV8) 2. GALTREY Robert (Harrogate) 11. BALES Michael (CADS) Men (47) 12. MILLER Curtis (CAMDEN) Girls U13 (6) 13. DONALD Simon (BRENTWOOD) 1. JANCA Michal (N/A) Boys U15 (7) 1. LAWSON Danielle (RGS WORCESTER) 14. WEBB Jonathan (CAMDEN) 2. PETRAITIS Vaidotas 1. STEED Oliver (SKIPTON) 2. HIDE Victoria (HARROGATE) 15. AMSALEM Rubin (CAMDEN) (HAVERSTOCK) 2. ANDREWS Tim(PLYMOUTH] 3= HIDE Amelia (HARROGATE) 16. LAWRENCE Chris (BEDFORD) 3= BULLWARD Alistair (YORK) 3= SWINBANK Felix (FRISBY) 3= VINCENT Hannah (STOCKPORT& 3= DOMEK Stephen (CAMBRIDGE) 3= PRIOR Cameron (GRAVESHAM) DIDSBURY) 5. NORRIS Paul (CAMBRIDGE) Women (31) 6. TOOLIS Thomas (HAVERSTOCK) Girls U11 (6) 1. ITZKOWITZ Aliya (CAMDEN) Boys U13 (13) 7. TOWNSON Paul (CADS) 1. HEAPS Jasmine (BLACKPOOL) 2. CARSON Victoria (CITY) 8. KRANZ Mike (CAMBRIDGE) 1. JORDAN Owen (FRISBY) 2. ANDREWS Emma (PLYMOUTH) 3= COLLIER Ellie (LAZLOS) 9. LOWE Tom(STREATHAM) 2. MORRIS George (CHESTER) 3= GRIMSHAWGrace (STOCKPORT 3= SOSNOWSKA Izabela (CAMDEN) 10. IQBAL Adeel (GADASKI) 3= WHITELAWAdam (ELTHAM COL) &DIDSBURY) 5. HUTCHISON Jane (BATH) 11. STEINER Adam (GADASKI) 3= LUCAS Tyler (GRAVESHAM) 3= JEAL Laura (HARROGATE) 6. CREECHAN Louise (TRURO) 12. BRYANWayne (CADS) 5. HUGHES Andrew (ELTHAM COL) 7. McWILLIAMS Maggie (TRURO) 13. HARDING Tim(REDHILL) 6. DULAC Joseph (ESCRIME) 8. RIDGEON Verity (SCIMITAR) 14. LEITHES Alexander (LTFC) 7. DICKSON Thomas (NEWCASTLE) 9. MORRIS Jenny (PORTSMOUTH & 15. PAGE Andrew (CADS) 8. RUSSELL James (ALDERSHOT) SABRE – HOME SOUTHSEA) 16. NORRIS Andrew (CHICHESTER) 10. McMILLAN Jennifer (ROLLO) Boys U11 (7) HERTFORDSHIRE OPEN: 11. HOOLE Lisa (CHILWELL) Women (12) 1. ANDREWS Benjamin (PLYMOUTH) 12.6.11 12. POTTER Emma (BIRMINGHAM 1. SPINLOVE Eryn (BIRMINGHAM) 2. PAUL Dominic (STOCKPORT& CITY UNI) 2. STEINER Christine (GADASKI) DIDSBURY) Men (45) 13. GLADDISH Laura (MX) 3= JANCOVAJitka (N/A) 3= BELL Jack (NEWCASTLE) 1. GANN Henry(BRENTWOOD) 14. HOBDAYTina (NLSC) 3= JARROLD Heather (CADS) 3= GARWOOD-WATKINS Joshua 2. CRUTCHETT Anthony 15. LASANCE Rachel (TAMESIDE) 5. ELYS Laycy (CITY) (BRIXTON) (BRENTWOOD) 16. JELFS Beth (IMPERIAL)

The 50 SWORD Results

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