News Archive

 

News items that are no longer current will be archived here. While we try to ensure that links on all other pages of the site remain current, links on this page may well be out of date.

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Congratulations to Tom Allen for winning the Leicester LPJS U13 Foil!

Cheesy photo of Tom with his medal!

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The British Senior National Championships were held in RAF Cosford on the weekend of 9th/10th July. There were many excellent results from Southern Fencers - far too many to list here. Full results on this link and a range of pictures on this link

Congrats to Ben White (15th) and Lukas Kuhlmey (22nd) for their results in a field of 82 at the new Mens Epee Open at Upper Heyford. Adrian Pask (Wellesbourne) and Aidan Gant (Solent Swords) were also there upholding the honour of Southern Region! Results can be found here

Fencing in Brussels as part of a team from Wellesbourne at the Flying Friendship Cup Mike Skipp (son of well known  Director of Coaching for GB Alan Skipp) won Gold medal for the Epee individual event run concurrently with the team event.Fencing 11 fights in a poole and 4 DE fights in  scorching heat  on 18th June at Waterloo in Belgium Mike beat last years  finalist Taneli LAHTI from Iceland Air. Gillian Worman  came third equal in Ladies foil.

 13 Fencers from Wellesbourne Sword Club travelled to Brussels and a team of Peter Roberts (Foil), Gillian Worman (W/Foil), Malcolm Allton (Sabre) and Andrew Brown (epee) came third by their results against difficult opposition from teams (two per club) from Aeroport de Paris, Air France and Iceland Air. The competition is an annual event started by Joe Garrett nearly 40 years ago  who worked at British Airways as a manager, Wellesbourne carries on the tradition.

Three Wellesbourne Sword Club fencers have been chosen to represent GB at the Veterans World Championships in Tampa in September.Linda Lawes will fence Foil and Sylvia Brown Epee and Andrew Brown is first reserve in Men’s Epee. Fencers have to earn their place by fencing well in two NVA championships in the UK,  the best seeded in both represent GB in friendly matches against  Germany as well as team events such as the Worlds and European team events.

Prof Bob Bales (England Director of Coaching) is running a Coaching Course this summer at Colchester (8/8/2005 - 12/8/2005). Click here for more details. The linked page does not make it very clear, but Prof Bob's contact details are here. England Contacts

Child Protection Courses - Now available from the BFA. For best practice, each club should have a Welfare Officer, and if not otherwise qualified - this is the ideal basic course. Click here for more details.

Southern Success Stories. Congrats to Ben White for winning the Scotland LPJS BU15 Epee, and to Ben Peggs for silver medal in the same competition BU15 Foil. Tom Allen did very well to win a BU13 gold at a tough LPJS in Portsmouth. Also congrats to Esther Kuhlmey for 7th in the Inverclyde Open, and brother Lukas for 12th in a strong mens epee field in the same event. If you have success stories to report email results and we will post them here!

England Fencing advertise vacancies for Regional Coach Educators. Deadline for applications is 14th June 2005 read more [archived on 20/6/2005]

FIE to consider some radical changes to rules, including the inclusion of the bib as valid target, and the removal of the white light in foil read more [archived on 20/6/2005]

If you don't already get the England Fencing Newsletter, then read the text of the June Newsletter here or visit here to subscribe to future England Fencing Newsletters. [archived on 20/6/2005]