Last week was a big weekend for some of our veteran members who represented GBR at the European Team Championships in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Congratulations to all of the GBR teams who performed brilliantly!
2nd GBR Men’s Grand Veteran Foil Team -featuring our Mike Medhurst (far left in the photo).
Congratulations Mike!
7th GBR Men’s Veteran Foil Team – featuring Kola Abidogun
7th GBR Women’s Veteran Foil Team -featuring Kate O’Connell
Congratulations to Ines Goyarola for winning GOLD in the U9 girls event at the IAPS Championships! Bravo Ines!!
Many of our young fencers competed in the Newham Junior Series event held at SportsDock, University of East London. The coaches were pleased to see some fantastic fencing and some personal best results. Well done everyone! Keep up the good work!
U14 Boys – Louis Ostacchini, 9th
U14 Girls – Alfreda Hall, 16th
U12 Girls – Cecily Romer, 8th
U12 Boys – Sebastiano Rebanato-Scott, L32; Oliver Downing, L32; Sasha, L32
U10 Boys – Jasper Booth, L16; Gus Booth, L16; Ethan Li, L8
Glen Ostacchini and Harry Bird were selected to represent GBR at the FIE World Cup in St Petersburg, Russia. Both of them won 3 out of 6 in their poule round but fell in the direct elimination round of 128.
Britain’s biggest fencing event was held over the May bank holiday weekend with over 1000 fencers competing across the various age groups in each weapon. We had some fantastic performances from our young members!
U18 Boys – Sam Wilson, 1st; Luca Plastow, 6th
U16 Boys – Dawood Khan, 3rd; Mark Evgenev, 32
U12 Girls – Charlotte Wilson, 15th
U16 Girls – Olivia O’Connell, 15th; Charlotte Macey, 17th
We had 3 fencers compete in the London Intermediate Championship which qualifies fencers for the GB Cup (the adult version of the BYCs).
1st Henry Youngblood (Automatic qualification for GB Cup)
3rd Matthias Ossyra (GB Cup Qualification TBC)
6th Dale Harrington-Johnson
Well done!
Congratulations to Chris Lennon on his 3rd place finish at the Irish National Championships held in April.
