Oksana Mikhaleva took 3rd place and Erika Cserny finished 7th in the Women’s Foil event.
In the Men’s event Dale Harrington-Johnson finished 11th, Matthias Ossyra 17th, Geert van Aarsen 19th and Matthew Rothero 21st.
A team was also entered into the Mixed Foil Team event where Salle Boston came away with a bronze medal!
Coaches Jon and Tomek lead Westminster to victory in the Senior Fencing event at the London Youth Games. Well done to Salle Boston fencers Sam Wilson and Mark Evgenev who were part of the team.
Many of our youngest members travelled across London to Newham for the 3rd event in the Newham Junior Series.
Ethan Li put in a great performance to take home a bronze medal!
Congratulations to Kate O’Connell on her 3rd place at the British Veteran Championships!
Mike Medhurst also continued his run of good form with a 6th place finish.
Congratulations! Fingers crossed for the upcoming Worlds selection….
The LP Veterans Open was held at the end of May at the LP Centre.
Congratulations to Mike Medhurst on his silver medal, losing narrowly 10-9 in the final.
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