From Hastings to Harrogate, Cobham to Copenhagen (and across London too ) foilists, epeeists, and sabreurs grabbed their kit and made their way to St Benedicts School, Ealing for London Region’s Summer Novice & Intermediate Championships. Seventy two of them in all, over 50% more than for our Summer 2016 event.
Two rounds of mixed poules before the DEs meant there was no shortage of fencing and looking around the arena there was no shortage of smiles, so we hope to see these, and many more new faces, at our next event – the London Region All Weapon Team Competition in October. Until then, happy fencing!
Results

There were 270 entrants this year up from 193 in 2016

Those highlighted in yellow have qualified for BYC 2017

Considering the sporting competition on this day (Euro 16 Finals and Wimbledon…) we had a turnout 45 fencers, an increase on Summer 2015, which was very pleasing. The comp went well and finished by 5.30.

Thanks for your support. There should be some pictures soon!

The organisers were:

• Sandy Sandford, Chairman and awards Presenter
• Caroline Woollard, location booking, referee hunter, set up and catering,
• Hazel Herbert, Competition Planning, referee hunter, Engarde operator, DE
• Christopher Sandford, Assistant DE/Announcer
• Rosemary Gilmour, Check In
• Andrew Nisbet, website and armoury
• Len Harris, medal procurement
• Big thanks from London Region to St Benedict’s School and Denis Cranwell for helping with the event, lending their scoring boxes and helping with the refereeing and to all the referees who were just as essential to the success of the competition.

The competition format was two rounds of pools followed by DE giving plenty of fencing.

Our next event will be a Team N&I in November ’16.

There were 193 entrants this year

We had a good turnout of over 60 fencers on this damp, rather dull  if mild January Sunday (31st) but with two poules and DE and mixed ability poules there was plenty of fencing and lots of fun.

Thank you for supporting this London Region Event. See you for our next one in July.

There is a gallery of pictures at the foot of this post

A great day fencing in quite benign weather conditions. Thank you for the kind comments received. Here are a few:

“Many thanks for organising and all the hard work that goes with it today-really enjoyed it.”

“An enjoyable Sabre competition”

“My first ever fencing competition”

“Thanks for organising the event. I thoroughly enjoyed it.“

“When is the next one?!”  (We are working on a date for early next year)

For those who asked the organisers were:

• Caroline, location booking, referee hunter, set up, check in and catering,
• Hazel, Competition Planning, referee hunter, Engarde operator
• Andrew, website and armoury (and reluctant ref)
• Alistair, chairman gluing it all together.
• Many thanks to Tony Conyard for assistance with set up and to all the referees who were just as essential to the success of the competition
• Big thanks from London Region to St Benedict’s School for helping with the event, lending us all their scoring boxes and helping with the refereeing.

There were 40 fencers on the day with two rounds of pools followed by DE.

See the picture Gallery

Novice Mens Foil

Intermediate Mens Foil

 Novice Womens Foil

 Novice Epee

Being the only woman, Agata was presented with the Gold Womens Epee medal.

Intermediate Mens Epee

 Novice Sabre Results

1       Akshay Khanna       UL

2       David McDougall    Camden

Intermediate Sabre Results

1       Daniel Lwanzambi             City Fencing Club

2       Pawel Zakiewicz                 Wimbledon