Author: Andrew Nisbet

The Veteran Winton Cup was held in the Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, Shropshire, early September 2015

The London team line up was:

Men’s épée: Mark Richardson, Peet Sasaki, Claude Haller
Women’s épée: Jacqueline Hibbert, Helen Thouless, Janet Cooksey
Men’s foil: Kenny Jones, Graham Paul, Berl Goldbart
Women’s foil: Janet Perkins, Catiusha Lupinetti, Amanda Gray
Men’s sabre: Kamal Yasin, Kevin Alexander, Layton Reid
Women’s sabre: Annaick Dulac, Virginie Ellul

The team came 8th overall but had a great weekend. Anyone wishing to be considered for the 2016 comp can register their interest through http://www.veterans-fencing.co.uk/

 

The Winton Cup series of competitions (Veteran, Senior and Cadet) was founded by Sir Nicholas Winton and brother Robert in 1950. Sir Nicholas represented England in 1938 and was selected for the 1940 Olympics, which were of course, cancelled.

In 1988 we learned that Sir Nicholas was responsible for saving 669 children from Czechoslovakia in 1938 by running trains to the coast and rehoming them in the UK and Sweden. He died in 2015 aged 106.

These competitions are now run in his honour. They are six weapon team events. London Region organises the Senior and Junior teams representing London with fencers being chosen from EF ranking lists.

Anyone interested in the Veteran competition (aged 40+) can register through http://www.veterans-fencing.co.uk/

Following the success and popularity of the 2015 competitions London Region are planning two competitions in 2016!

Put Sundays 31st January and 10th July in your diaries now!

Both will be held at St Benedicts School, Ealing

2015 Results and picture gallery

A great turn out of foilists for the August Training Camp this year.

Maciej Wojtkowiak keeps an eye on the last day ‘friendly competition’ as the fencers practice the lessons learned over the three days of the camp.

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