British Fencing April 2011 £5.00 British Fencing April 2011 £5.00 New Series No.101 April 2011 Front Cover: Alex Tofalides,winner of the men’sfoil Junior World Cup in Mödling (photo: BOA) FENCING NEWS 5 WOMEN’S SABRE SENIOR WORLD CUP 10 British Fencing Graham Morrison presents aphoto-report on Britain’spremier FIE A-grade event 1BaronʼsGate, 33 Rothschild Road, London W4 5HT,Tel: 0208 742 3032, Fax: 0208 742 3033. HOWTOPREVENT LOWER LEG INJURIES 14 Website: http//www.BritishFencing.com e-mail: [email protected] Lindsay Bottoms,Andy Greenhalgh &Jonnie Sinclair look at how President: Keith Smith different shoes and floor surfaces can affect afencer’s legs Chief Executive: Piers Martin FENCING AND COACHING AT UNIVERSITY 16 Editor: Malcolm Fare Bill Penson describes the differences between club and university fencing Pyndar Lodge, Hanley Swan, both for fencers and coaches Worcs WR8 0DN Tel: 01684 311197 Fax: 01684 311250 OBITUARIES 19 email: [email protected] Jim Calvesbert, Dave Bird Print and Layout: Warwick Printing Co Ltd LETTERS 21 Caswell Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. CV31 1QD Tel: 01926 883355 Fax: 01926 883575 ROUND-UP 22 Thomas,O’Sullivan Cup,Vet’sNews,Stourbridge 50th anniversary Advertising: BFA Tel: 0208 742 3032 Email: [email protected] YOUNG FENCER 26 Tofalides &Davis,Experiences of afirst-time captain, Camden cadet sabre, British Fencing accepts no responsibility Profile –Alex Tofalides for the contents of advertisementsand reserves the right to refuse inclusion. The Sword,aquarterly magazine, is RESULTS 33 distributed to all individual and club members of British Fencing and its affiliates. It can also be obtained on subscription –UK£20 Overseas airmail £26 –direct from HQ. Contributions are welcome. Photographs should include the names of those pictured and the photographer. Views expressed in The Sword do not necessarily reflect those of British Fencing. No part of the magazine may Next deadline: 23 MAY be reproduced without permission from the editor/photographer. British Fencing The SWORD 3 Marcus Mepstead promotes the ticketing Sign Up campaign £1M SPONSORSHIP FOR BRITISH LONDON 2012 TICKETS FENCING Applications for Olympic Games tickets can now be Beazley,the specialist Lloyd’sinsurer,has entered into afive-year made at www.tickets.london2012.com.Tickets are on sale for partnership worth £1 million with British Fencing, becoming its 40 days closing on 26 April 2011, but will not be sold on afirst- principal sponsor,aswell as official insurer,until the end of 2015. come-first-served basis.For sessions where demand exceeds Beazley’ssponsorship will increase British Fencing’scurrent level supply,anautomated and random selection process will be used. of funding by 32% and could double the number of fencers able to dedicate themselves to full-time professional training. There are four price bands for the fencing events,which will take place from Saturday 28 July through to Sunday 5August (see Andrew Horton, Beazley Chief Executive,said: “Fencing is asport table): £20, £30, £45 &£65 for preliminary rounds and £30, £45, to which we can makeameaningful contribution, both at the £65 &£95 for finals.There are also special prices for young highest competitive level and through fencing schools people and seniors.Those who are 16 years old or younger (at 27 throughout the country.” July 2012) will pay their age for aticket, while seniors aged 60 and over (at 27 July 2012) will pay £16. The£1m investment will be split across: Youchoose aprice category rather than aspecific seat and can ● GB teams (including Paralympic hopefuls) for the purposes of indicate the lowest and/or highest prices you are willing to pay supporting athletes,their training, competition attendance for tickets to asession;this will increase your chances of being and equipment. allocated tickets. ● National Academy,including venue hire,equipment and travel Special packages will be offered by Thomas Cook and Prestige to international competitions. Ticketing; details from ● Increasing grassroots participation. www.thomascooklondon2012.com ● BF run tournaments,including World Cup events,which will Thomas Cook London 2012 website and help build aworld class events programme in Britain and prestigeticketing.london2012.com develop our athletes. Prestige Ticketing website. ● Marketing and promotion of the sport to build interest and Paralympic Games ticket applications will open on Friday 9 participation. September 2011. Pricecategory Medal Session Ticket Date SessiontimeSessiondescription session code AA ABCDElimit Individual Foil:round of 64,round of 32,round of 16, 10:30–15:30 FE001 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 quarter-finals 28 July Individual Foil:semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, 18:00–20:30 FE002 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 gold medalmatch,victoryceremony Individual Sabre: roundof64, roundof32, roundof16, 10:30–14:00 FE003 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 quarter-finals 29 July Individual Sabre: semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, 18:00–19:50 FE004 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 gold medalmatch,victoryceremony Individual Epée:round of 64,round of 32,round of 16, 10:30–15:30 FE005 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 quarter-finals 30 July Individual Epée:semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, 18:00–20:30 FE006 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 gold medalmatch,victoryceremony Individual Foil:round of 64,round of 32,round of 16, 10:30–15:30 FE007 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 quarter-finals 31 July Individual Foil:semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, 18:00–20:30 FE008 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 gold medalmatch,victoryceremony Individual Epée:round of 32,round of 16,quarter-finals 09:00–15:40 FE009 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 Individual Sabre: roundof32, roundof16, quarter-finals 1Aug Individual Epée:semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, gold medalmatch,victoryceremony 17:30–21:20 FE010 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 Individual Sabre: semi-finals, bronze medalmatch, gold medalmatch,victoryceremony Team Foil:round of 16,quarter-finals,classifications 09:00–16:30 FE011 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 (5th-8thplaces), semi-finals 2Aug Team Foil:bronzemedal match, gold medalmatch, 18:00–20:50 FE012 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 victoryceremony Team Sabre: roundof16, quarter-finals, classifications 10:30–15:30 FE013 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 (5th-8thplaces), semi-finals 3Aug Team Sabre: bronze medalmatch,gold medalmatch, 18:00–19:50 FE014 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 victoryceremony Team Epée:round of 16,quarter-finals,classifications 09:00–16:30 FE015 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 (5th-8thplaces), semi-finals 4Aug Team Epée:bronzemedal match, gold medalmatch, 18:00–20:50 FE016 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 victoryceremony Team Foil:round of 16,quarter-finals,classifications 09:00–16:30 FE017 –£65 £45£30 £20 –20 (5th-8thplaces), semi-finals 5Aug Team Foil:bronzemedal match, gold medalmatch, 18:00–20:50 FE018 –£95 £65£45 £30– 6 victoryceremony Men’sevent Women’s event Specialprices available in this pricecategory Medalsession The SWORD 5 Fencing News WATTS STEPS DOWN AS PERFORMANCE DIRECTOR Following UK Sport’sWorld Class Performance Programme (WCPP) funding review after the world championships,Graham Watts has stepped down from his position as British Fencing’s Performance Director.The WCPP will now be overseen by a Performance Management Group led by afull-time Performance Manager.Graham Watts held the positionofPerformance Director forten years,both as avolunteer and apart-time contractor. SPORTS MUSEUM WEBSITE TheNational Fencing Museum is featured on anew website – www.sportcloseup.co.uk. This online visitors' guide lists more Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood recently visited than 80 sports museums,tours and other visitor attractions in Espada Fencing Club at the Littledown Leisure Centre, where the United Kingdom, from large museums at Manchester United he watched over 50 club fencers in action and took part in and Wimbledon through to personal collections open by warm up exercises before receiving afencing lesson. He is appointment. seen here with (from left) the club’s oldest fencer, 81-year-old Dennis Ward, chair Marilyn Wheelband and Thewebsitehas impartial reviews and all the information you coach Brian Speight. need to plan avisit, including exhibits on show,maps,contact details and links.You can find the entry for the National Fencing Museum under the Midlands and Olympic sports sections. There's an e-mail newsletter to keep up with the latest news about museums and other attractions and atwitter feed – BOAATHLETE OF THE YEAR @sportcloseup. To mark her outstanding performances in 2010, Chrystall Nicoll has been named BOAOlympic athlete of the year by British Fencing. Twobronze medals –atKlagenfurt and Koblenz –and LONDON 2012 50p COIN three L16 places at senior A-grade events during the year,have When the Royal Mint launched acompetition to design aseries confirmed Nicoll as one of fencing’smost consistently successful of new 50p coins to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic performers.She finished the year ranked 25th in the world. Games,itreceived over 30,000entries.The fencing design was won by Ruth Summerfield, aradiologist from Stoke-on-Trent. She studied art for her GCSEs,but then pursued acareer in medicine. VOLUNTEERS FOR EUROPEAN Although not afencer herself,she has afriend who is and was CHAMPIONSHIPS inspired by the exciting shapes that fencers can get into when British Fencing is looking for volunteers to help at the senior fencing. The Royal Mint’s European championships being held in Sheffield, 14-19 July.The 50p pack top fencers in Europe will takepart in these championships and volunteers will have the opportunity to be in their company just Ruth Summerfield one year away from the Olympic Games in London. If you have with agiant image signed up to volunteer at the Olympics,this will be agreat of her 50p coin opportunity to see what things may be like. Over 100 daily volunteer posts have been identified in awide variety of positions: welcoming guests (at local airports,train stations,hotels,aswell as at the venue), interpreters,drivers, transport control, administration (accreditation, information provision), the competition (access control, time-keepers, scorers,video jockeys,call room), merchandising, medical care and health.