OFC welcomed the Oxford University pentathletes for a second match on 19 March. This time there were five teams of two, and another lively and enjoyable evening’s fencing.
Mark and Anne took top spot, with pentathletes Charlie and Sam not far behind in second place.
We hope there’ll be more matches and joint training in future!
On 10 March several OFC fencers and friends took part in this age groups competition in Swindon. Well done for good performances against exceptionally tough opposition to Freya Leech, Ava Tester and Gabriel Tribe, and extra congratulations to Eunmin Na (bronze medal), Darcy Herring-Johnson (silver) and Noe Larrousse (silver in epee and bronze in sabre),who qualified for the British Youth Championships, to be held in Sheffield in May.
Photo: Anne Tester
This competition is for younger fencers, and offers a great opportunity to qualify for the British Youth Championships.
It’s not far away, at Swindon Indoor Football.
Full details will be posted on the Southern Region website here:
http://southernfencing.org.uk/?p=3635
The festive atmosphere of the BBO Foil Rally was a great place for some of our junior fencers to gain experience (or more experience) of team competition. Amidst the Christmas lights, fairies, French hens, geese allez-ing, turkey foils and the occasional (Foiliz Navidad) bull, matador, piglet and pirate, our teams wielded “Foils Around the Christmas Tree”, and brought “Piste on Earth”. Even our spare fencer found a two-person team to join, proving indeed that “It’s a Wonderfoil Life”. Well done to Esther, Luca, Vito, Ava, Cohen, Xavier and Ruby, for putting in a long day of fencing.
Report by Anne Tester, photo by James Kingston
Congratulations to Shazamin Shaharani for his bronze medal in the Sussex Open Men’s Epee!
OFC came back with three medals from the BB&O epee championships. Freya Leech picked up gold in the U12s girls, having fenced in the poules with the U14s. Ava Tester took bronze in the U14s girls. Mark Leech won silver in the men’s event. Well done all!
Oxford Fencing Club was well represented at the Southern Fencing Region Epee Competition today. Well done to Mark Leech, Eunmin Na, Matt Pickering, Shazamin Shahrani and Anne Tester for a good effort. Matt earned himself a silver medal, while Eunmin, Shaz and Anne came away with bronze. Mark was just outside the medals in fifth. Special mention for Eunmin’s performance in the poules (in which she beat the eventual Ladies gold medallist among others) which was outstanding!
Vito, Luke and Francis fenced in the U14 age group of the Southern Region’s team foil event on 7 October. They did very well and reached the last 8. Well done!
On 7 October Arthur, Aryan and Cohen took part in their first competition, in the Under 10s category, in which there were 10 teams. Between them they had combined fencing experience of only about two and a half years! Cohen’s mum Anne, who also took the photo, writes: “They conducted themselves well, and deserve to be proud. I am reliably informed that although this was an under 10’s comp (as at 1 Jan 2019), we were pitted against several 10 year olds and at least one 11 year old!”
Congratulations to all three for taking their first competitive steps.
Date: Sunday 2nd September 2018
Time: Start 10am Finish Approx 4pm
Venue: St Gabriel’s School, Sandleford Priory, Newton Rd, Newbury, RG20 9BD
Open to Regional fencers aged 16yrs plus.
Cost: £18 to include buffet Lunch
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Date: Sunday 23rd September 2018
Time: Start 10am Finish Approx 5pm
Venue: St Gabriel’s School, Sandleford Priory, Newton Rd, Newbury, RG20 9BD
This will be open to all, will include all development aspects. Full details will be available soon.
The cost to attend the day will be:
Fencers – £25 for the first family member and £20 for any subsequent members
£10 for the referee workshop with Luke Deamer. There will be the option to take a L1 exam and he will be around on the 21st Oct so anyone who would like a L2 assessment he will do that then
£10 for an armoury workshop with Andy Goodier
