Huntingdonshire Fencing Club

February 17, 2019

Silvia Brown took the bronze medal coming third. 

February 16, 2019

Ellis won the silver medal coming second.  

January 26, 2019

Foil U14 (24 fencers)

Ellis finished 10th

Oskar finished 14th

Josh finished 15th

Foil U16

Thomas finished 15th

Foil U18

Hannah finished 3rd Bronze

Epee U14

Ellis finished 3rd Bronze

August 25, 2018

At the Bedfordshire County Championships on Sunday 26th Aug club members picked up 2 bronze medals.

In the foil Jacques Portal came joint third and in the epee Andy Luckman also came joint third.

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Well done!

July 20, 2018

This weekend past was the Norfolk Open a 6 weapon tournament.

We had a 8  HFC members who made the trip to the Sportspark, ARU, Norwich for the Norfolk open.

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Hannah taking silver medal in women's foil.

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Tracey Coates got best placed veteran in the women's foil and Ian Coates taking best placed veteran in the men's foil.

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Full Report

July 07, 2018

There s did not start that well being ranked 7th after two rounds of pools. 

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So his first DE bout was not going to be easy but he started to fence much better beating Rob Johnson of Gt Yarmouth & Waveney 15-9.

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The next round he is up against Joe Rance from CADs (Colchester and district)

This was a tougher bout but Jacque comes through 15-13

In the quarter finals he found himself up against Peter Lennard a left hander from Cambridge club.

Peter is a very difficult fencer always seems to get his body out of line, difficult to hit.

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This turned out to be a very tough fight, they were always within a couple of hits of each other right the way through. Then Jacque manage to get the lead at 14-11 but Peter fought back to 14 all.

Nerves jingling there was a clash and Jacques comes out with his light the only one on, so Jacques goes through to the final.

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In the final he is up against Michael Naulis of Norfolk club who was fencing very well.

Jacques took an early lead but Michael soon brought in back to be even and there is stayed just 1 or 2 hits between them until we get to 14 all. Jacques does not believe in making things easy.

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Both fencers at this stage were nervous and tired but maybe Jacques looked the more tired, Michael being the younger fencer.

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Michael launched a very fast fleche attack wich Jacques parried, Michael was at full speed and passed Jacques but Jacques was still able to riposte and hit Michael on the back as he passed and so winning the bout and the competition 15-14.

July 06, 2018

Senior Winton Cup, for those who do not know this is a 6 weapon team event of UK regions. So a team consists of between 18 and 24 fencers with teams of 3 or 4 (1 reserve) of each weapon. 

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Huntingdonshire club had a number of fencers in the team.

Hannah women`s foil.

George Partridge  men`s epee and epee captain

Matt Pickering men`s epee

Matt Dalton (Ex HFC fencer went of to uni) men`s epee

Liz Bujor women`s sabre.

Eastern Region came 6th overall.

Both the Men and Woman`s Foil teams came 2nd. Woman`s Foil team only lost 1 match and men lost 2, so was some really great fencing. Woman`s Epee came 6th.

Hannah had a great weekend only losing 3 of her 30 fights! Was an exhausting but enjoyable weekend and all the team members did the Eastern Region proud.

Full result

1 North West

2 South East

3 West Midlands

4 Yorkshire

5 South West

6 Eastern

7 East Midlands

8 Wales

9 North East

10 Southern

11 UKAF

May 11, 2018

The Eastern Region Senior Championships were held over the past weekend at Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre and I am very pleased to announce that HFC members won a number of medals.

We had 3 silver medals as follow

Hannah 2nd in the women`s foil

Liz Bujor 2nd in the women`s sabre (Liz one of our ARU friends)

Dan in the men`s foil

2 bronze medals as follows

Zoe Woodiwiss 3rd  in the women`s foil (Zoe is one of our ARU fencers)

Nico Igancio 3rd in the men`s sabre

Others HFC members who entered where Richard Sage, Josh Coates and Jacques Portal men`s foil.

Tim Bissell and Tom Scoble men`s epee (Tom one of our ARU friends)

April 28, 2018

Results

1. We don't need Phil

2. Dragon Eye

3. Fearsome 4 (CFC)

4. HFC B

5. Northants A

6. Hunts C

7. Northants B

8. White Rhinos (ARU)

9. Fab 4 (CFC)

10. Black Rhinos (ARU)

11. Bedford 

12. Northampton C

Team members - 

• We don't need Phil:  Hannah, Dan, Matt Pickering and Nico Ignacio (HFC Members)

• Dragon Eye: Phil West, Kiron, Alice and Ian Coates (HFC)

• Fearsome 4: Faye Russell, Boya Wang, Peter Lennard and Matt Rumble

• HFB B: Tracey Coates, Jacques Portal, Dan Tozer and George Partridge

• Hunts C: Katie, Joshua Coates, Euan Smith, Tim Bissell

• Northampton A Stephen, Tessa, Graham , Levi

• Northampton B Paul W, Abby, Sylvia, Tristan

• Northampton C Paul D, Alfie, Jill, Grainne

• Bedford: Philippe Vereecque, Francois Ogliaro,Catriona Moore, Iona Quinn-Mann

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A Few Photos

April 14, 2018

Results 

1. Andrew Ho CFC

2. Steven Anderson CFC

3. Simon Mills CFC, Georgia Read ARU

5. Katelin Wall ARU

6. Katy  HFC

7. Ben  HFC

8. Jacob Bokay SWS

9. Sophie Clift SWS

10. Shelise Robertson CFC

11. Guy Mills CFC

April 14, 2018

Results U13 - U16 pair

1. Cambridge Sword 1

2. Dragon 4

3. Hunts 2, Dragon 1

5. Dragon 2

6. Hunts 1

7. Dragon 3

8. Hunts 3

9. Saffron Walden 1

March 17, 2018

The contest took place at Kelsey Kerridge sports centre, in Cambridge, and saw Huntingdonshire members take on Anglia Ruskin University in one of a series of events to mark the university’s 25 years of sporting activity in the region.

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Teams of men and women fought at all three weapons of foil, epee and sabre in a relay, the first team to reach 45 points being the winner.

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Ladies foil kicked off proceedings with the Huntingdonshire team of Tracey Coates, Hannah and Katie successfully combining youth and experience to victory over an enthusiastic team of ladies from ARU, 45-31.

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Meanwhile, on the second of two pistes, the men’s event started with an explosive match for the sabre competition. The more experienced team from Huntingdon slowly drew ahead and looked like convincing winners until ARU got into their stride gaining hit after hit with some skilful cuts to the arm from Felix de Mayo. With the score at 44-44 an attack from de Mayo, who had clawed back a 13-hit deficit, was parried by Nico Ignacio, with his riposte, giving Huntingdonshire a single-point win.

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In the epee, both Huntingdonshire teams had convincing wins against ARU. Despite some fast athletic attacks from ARU’s men, the better fencing brains of Tim Bissell, Josh Coates and George Partridge saw a score-line of 45-37. The women epeeists of Tracey Coates, Carole Ashman and Diane Pattison were just too good for the ladies of ARU, reflected in a 45-38 scoreline.

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In ladies sabre, however, it was a dominant ARU team who overwhelmed Huntingdonshire. Led by the team captain, Eliza Bujor, they stormed to a 45-29 point win against a keen but inexperienced Huntingdonshire side.

The final match, men’s foil, saw Ian Coates, Josh Coates and Jacques Portal take on three competitive fencers from ARU. The local proved too strong for their opponents, sealing the match and winning overall scoring 254 points to ARU’s 210.

February 27, 2018

Hannah came 1st in the U18 Eastern Region Foil Championships 27.02.18. She has qualified for the British Youth Championships in May.

February 11, 2018

HFC was represented at the 2018 Cambridgeshire Fencing Association Junior Foil by Tom , Oscar and Gabriella.

Congratulations to Tom Crawford on getting a Bronze Medal!  

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Results:

U16

• 1. Pierce Dragon

• 2. Aly Dragon

• 3. Tom HFC

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U13

• 1. Daniel Dragon

• 2. Jake Camb. Sword

• 3. George Dragon, Charlotte Camb. Sword

• 5. Oscar HFC

• 6. Gabriella  HFC

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February 10, 2018

Several HFC members took part including medal winner Andrew Luckman, Andrew Brown (7th) and Tim Bissell (8th).

February 04, 2018

HFC fielded seven fencers in this years Megafoil competition, making up nearly half of the entry. A mixed competition was run with the final places for the women's medals being fought in D.E's based on the placings from the mixed competition.

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HFC fencers got five medals across both competitions. Congratulations to all those who got a medal.

Results:

Women's comp.

• 1. Aly Dragon

• 2. Hannah HFC

• 3. Alex Sapetschnig CFC, Katy HFC

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Overall Comp.

• 1.Phil West Dragon

• 2. Dan HFC

• 3. Hannah HFC, Josh Coates HFC

• 5. Peter Lennard CFC

• 6. Micheal baker Dragon

• 7. Steve Kitson CFC

• 8. Aly Dragon

• 9. Adi Tandon CFC

• 10. Dan Tozer HFC

• 11. Nathan Wooldridge Dragon

• 12. Alex Sapetschnig CFC

• 13. Ian Coates HFC

• 14. Josh Watts HFC

• 15. Katy HFC

September 22, 2017

Veteran Fencers travelled to Shropshire to fight for the honour of the Eastern Region over the weekend in the annual “Winton Cup”. A team fencing competition, the idea of Sir Nicholas Winton, a keen fencer, who rescued 669 Czechoslovakian  children from the Nazi’s before WW2 and found homes for them in the UK.

The competition was held over two days at the National Sports Centre Lilleshall, where entrants, all 40 years of age or over, some of whom are Olympians and ex-World Champions, compete in a Team Competition fighting fencers representing 9 other regions from around the country.

Huntingdonshire Fencing Club was well represented with 8 fencers out of a total of 18 in the Eastern Region. Each weapon, Foil, Sabre and Épée, have 3 fencers per team with both men and women competing. Tracey Coates fought in the Ladies foil team, winning 3 of their nine matches. The Mens Foil team of Ian Coates, (Capt.) Richard Sage, Tim Bissell and Jacques Portal won 4 of theirs. Tim fenced Épée on Sunday and along with Huntingdonshire FC team-mates Andy Luckman and Jon Nottingham had 6 victories. Euan Smith was the only Huntingdonshire FC Sabreur, the Men’s and Ladies’ teams earning an impressive nine wins between them.

Sunday evening saw the close of the competition, after 16 hours of combat, with our local team Eastern Region finishing 5th out of ten. This was a great improvement on the 7th place Eastern achieved last year on their debut.

July 15, 2017

Men`s Epee

George Partridge – 3rd place, Bronze medal

Matt Pickering – 6th place

Andy Luckman – 7th place

Women`s Foil

Hannah – 3rd Place, Bronze medal

Ali – 5th Place

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Well done to Hannah and George on their bronze medals! 

July 14, 2017

Ellis  – 3rd Place, Bronze medal. 

July 12, 2017

George Partridge 1st Place Gold medal

Tim Bissell 2nd Place, Silver medal

July 08, 2017

Jacques Portal -  7th place.

July 07, 2017

The Winton cup is a team event for the various regions of the BFA competing against each other.

It is for all 6 weapons, so you have teams of 3 or 4 (reserve) MF, WF, ME, WE, MS & WS

Hannah was selected for the women`s foil team for Eastern Region. They had a great weekend ending up undefeated in all their matches over two days and winning the women`s foil trophy.

June 28, 2017

Dan Tozer  2nd place, Silver medal. Well Done. 

June 24, 2017

Andy Luckman 3rd Place in the epee (60), bronze medal. Well done.

May 26, 2017

Hannah took GOLD at the Luton Open women`s foil, what a great result.

Although Hannah had a bit of a shaky start to the day her fencing improved throughout the day and so did her confidence which took her through to the final.

Watching the final gave me great pleasure to think that this young fencer started in the HFC 10 wk beginners course back in Jan 13 and is now in the final of the Luton Open.

As Hannah came en-guard at the beginning of the final you could visibly see the nerves but when the referee (Peter Huggins) call “play” so they disappeared and Hannah immediately went on the attack.

The bout was close but with some very good long attacks from Hannah they started to give her the edge, her opponent Jessica Zhang gave Hannah some difficulties with her attacks but then Hannah found her distance and made some good parries & hit with direct riposte`s. It started to go Hannah`s way, all she need to do was hold her nerve which she did brilliantly and ran out the winner at 15/10.

Well done Hannah, yet another medal for your collection, excellent.

Hannah now fences at Dragon and FCL as well as HFC but HFC is where it all started.

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Mike.

May 20, 2017

The County Captains 4 weapon Team event.

This is not a standard team but one made up of 4 fencers, women`s foil, men`s foil, Epee and sabre, the last two any gender.

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Each weapon fights for 10 hits or 4 minutes which ever is the sooner, so its the first team to reach 40 hits wins.

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We had many HFC fencers in various teams.

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The winning team Dragonhunt was a mix of HFC and Dragon fencers, some belonging to both clubs.

Dan as men`s foil, Hannah women`s foil, Matt Pickering Epee & Phil West men`s sabre

Other HFC teams were made up as follows

HFC 1

Richard Sage MF

Tracey Coates WF

George Partridge ME

Dan Tozer MS

HFC2

Jacques Portal MF

Andy Luckman ME

Euan Smith MS

Lauren Bridgen WF (From Towcester FC)

HFC3

Ian Coates - Epee

Andy Scott Donkin (foil)

Eliza Bujor from ARU Sabre

Alice WF (Dragon)

Full result plus see photos of all medal winning teams.

1. Dragonhunt

2. A ginger and his ninjas (Northampton)

3. HFC 1

4. HFC 2

5. Northampton Sparticus

6. HFC 3

7. Death by snoo snoo (Northampton)

8. Afengers (Cambridge)

9. Fentastic 4 (Cambridge)

May 13, 2017

The 14th May was the Eastern Region Championships held at St Ives.

HFC members brought home a bunch of medals

Hannah 1st place, GOLD medal women`s foil

Tracey Coates 3rd place, BRONZE women`s foil

George Partridge 1st place GOLD medal men`s epee

Andy Luckman 3rd place, BRONZE medal men`s epee

Dan , 2nd place, SILVER medal men`s foil

Liz Bujor (ARU) 3rd place, BRONZE medal women`s sabre

Nico Ignacio (ARU) 3rd place, BRONZE medal men`s sabre

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Photos

May 06, 2017

U16`s, U13`s & U11`s

Results U16

1. CS1
2. Dragon 2
3. Dragon 1
4. CS2
5. HFC2
6. HFC1

The U13 & 11 where combined

1. Dragon
2. HFC U11 A
3. HFC U13
4. HFC U11 B

April 29, 2017

In the county team HFC came first.

Our team was Richard Sage, Jacque Portal, Tim Bissell & Dalilia Capao well done HFC foil team

Full result
1. HFC
2. CFC 3
3. CFC 1
4. Dragon
5. CFC Ladies

April 29, 2017

We had a number of HFC fencers in the Novice event and below is the final positions. Well done them all.

1. Nathan Dragon 
2.Alex Sapetschnig CFC (Gold woman)
3. Steven Anderson CFC, Kathrin Holtzmen CFC (Silver woman)
5. Katy  HFC (Bronze Woman)
6. Nicola Harrison CFC (Bronze Woman)
7. Kelda Dragon
8. Joshua HFC
9. Ralph HFC
10. Jenny HFC
11. Sarah Lamprecht HFC

April 28, 2017

Hannah in the girls U16 foil came 10th, another great result!

April 21, 2017

Hannah came a fantastic 16th place in the women`s foil, brilliant, well done Hannah!

February 26, 2017

14 members of HFC went to Sawston Village College on Sunday to fence in the county foil championships.

That was a very good turn out for HFC.

I think everyone one had a good days fencing and we should all thank Dan Tozer for organising the event, well done Dan.

Our members picked up a number of medals.

Women`s foil

1st Gold medal  Hannah 

2nd Silver medal Tracey Coates

Joint 3rd bronze medal Imogen with Kelda of Dragon

Men`s foil

1st Gold medal Dan 

2nd Silver medal Richard Sage

Joint 3rd bronze medal Jacque Portal with Phil West of Dragon

There was some great fencing battles but the bout of the day was in one of the semi finals when Dan Summerfield meet last years winner Phil West.

This was a very close fight with some excellent fencing, Phil was counter attacking very successfully in to Dan`s attacks and went in to the first period rest ahead of Dan.

Dan then fought back with some lightning riposte`s. Phil picked up a yellow card for turning his back when trying to counter attack and getting his target out of line but went too far.

Then it was a hit for hit run and it got to 13-14 to Phil when Phil tried the same counter attack and again ended up turning his back but as this was his 2nd offence he picked a red card and gave a penalty hit to Dan making it 14-14 all. Now the heat was really on both fencers, they could afford any errors. Dan went for a very fast attack but Phil parried it, then we got an exchange at extreme high speed of Phil parry riposte, Dan parries the riposte and hits with his counter riposte. The whole action from Dan`s initial attack until his hit with the counter riposte must have been well under 1 second.

This great hit gave Dan the match and his place in the final against Richard Sage who had beaten Jacque Portal in his semi final.

The final was at different pace with Richard with many years of experience knowing Dan was the faster fencer not engaging him in fast fencing phases. Richard looked for counter attacks and attaches in to preparations, all worked well for the early part of the bout but Dan then used distance and very fast attacks and riposte to come out the victor at 15 –10.

All went home having a great day fencing and watching some excellent bouts.

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May 27, 2016

Hannah finished 3rd to get the bronze medal at the Luton Open against stiff competiton. Well done Hannah, may this be the first of many more medals at opens.

October 21, 2016

Silvia Brown fenced in the GB Women’s Sabre Team at the World Championship competition held at Stralsund in Germany in October.  She qualified for the team earlier in the year at the Veterans’ National competition The Hanseatic City is known as the gateway to Ruegen, the largest island in Germany.  It was not an easy journey!

There was a small field of five Women’s Sabre teams but the competition was fierce.  In the seeding poule unique, they beat the USA 30-28. This was a tough match and Silvia was on last against Jane Eyre (the reigning World Champion). In an exciting and fast moving fight Silvia secured the victory for the team. Team GB beat Japan 30-26 but lost 30-16 to Germany and 30-24 to France, leaving them ranked third.  They then faced a bronze play off match against Japan, winning 30-19 to secure the Bronze Medal. Germany won Gold and USA took Silver.

Silvia and the Women’s Sabre Team GB were very grateful to have received enormous support through warm-ups, advice and encouragement from Prof. Katz throughout several days of intense competition. 

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Also at the Championships was Jon Nottingham, who fenced in the 50+ (Cat. A) Epee in a huge field of 84 fencers.  In this anything can happen!  Winning 4 and losing 2 fights in the first poule he was seeded 35th.  Jon beat the 30th seed from Sweden, only to lose to third seed Marek Stepien from USA 10/8 in a close and hard fought match.  He was pleased with his 28th place as it was a great improvement on his last result, and also because he was the top British fencer in his Age Group.

July 22, 2016

5 HFC fencers went to Sawston for the Cambridgeshire County Epee Championships on Sunday and brought back 3 medals.

Sam and Andy Luckman, Tim Bissell, Josh Coates and Matt Dalton were HFC representatives.

It was a warm day to be fencing but everyone enjoyed the event.

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Medals went to:

Bronze to Andy Luckman joint third with Peter Lennard of Cambridge club

2nd place with a Silver to Tim Bissell

1st place with Gold to Matt Dalton who is now county epee champion.

Full Report

May 21, 2016

The Captains Four Weapon was held on Sunday 22nd May at St.Ives One Leisure Centre.  Unusually for a team competition it requires four fencers for a team and is mixed. A team consists of a male foilist, female foilist, epeeist and sabreur.  The order in which they fight is drawn at random at the beginning of each match, the fencer’s then fence to the next 10 hit mark or till the end of the four minute period.  The bought is won when a team reaches 40 hits or is ahead after the final four minute period.

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This competition has proved popular with clubs across the Eastern Region entering teams over the years. This year was no exception with 9 teams coming from Cambridge, Huntingdonshire, Northampton and Affondo fencing clubs.

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The order of the four weapons within a bought adds a twist on conventional competition depending on the strength of each fencer in the weapon they are fencing.  This makes for an interesting and involved team competition.

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This year Huntingdonshire had 2 teams entered and a shared team with Dragon fencing club. Hunts A was Tracey Coates (Female Foilist), Jacques Portal (Male Foilist), George Partridge (Epee) and Euan Smith (Sabre). ‘Not Here’ was Dalila Capão (Female Foilist), Richard Sage (Male Foilist), Ian Coates (Epee) and Dan Tozer (Sabre). The shared team was called ‘DragonHunt’ Hannah (Female Foilist), Dan  (Male Foilist), Matt (Epee) and Phil West (Sabre).

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‘Not Here’ fought well throughout the day to finish 5th overall. ‘DargonHunt’ and Hunts A both had good days fencing not losing a fight meaning they met in the final. Despite strong performances in their fights Hunts A were unable win out against ‘DragonHunt’ in a tough fight to take second place and the silver medal.

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Well done to Hunt’s A on their silver medals!

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Final Rankings

1. DragonHunt

2. Hunts A

3. CFC 1 (Cambridge Fencing Club)

4. Northampton Spartans

5. Not Here

6. CFC A (Cambridge Fencing Club)

7. Beanz (Northampton Fencing Club)

8. Drakey’s Misfits (Northampton Fencing Club)

9. Affondo

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May 14, 2016

The Eastern Region Big Weekend was held at St.Neots over the weekend of 14/15th of May, with coaching, refereeing and armoury courses held on the Saturday as well as a youth training day. The Sunday was a 6 weapon competition. It was a well-attended and well run event with people coming from across the region to attend the courses and the competition.

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Huntingdonshire fencing club had members fencing in all events except the women’s epee competition.  There were 16 club members across the weapons with Silvia Brown and David Soalri fencing two weapons! There were three medallists and four best veterans prizes also won. Jean-Luc Janet won Gold in Men's Epee, Silvia Brown won Silver in Women's Sabre and Jacques Portal won Bronze at Men's Foil.

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Well done to the three medalists but also to everyone else who fenced and took part in the courses.

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Full Results and Pictures

March 19, 2016

Silvia Brown continued her medal winning form to take bronze at the west midlands veterans competition. 

March 19, 2016

Congratualtions to Jacques Portal who won the bronze medal at the Veterans West Midlands Foil Competition. 

March 04, 2016

Silvia Brown achieved her best result at a Veterans’ Nationals competition on 4th March – her birthday, winning a Bronze medal at the Women’s Sabre and the Gold Medal for her Age Group.

Silvia Brown has qualified to represent Great Britain at the World Championships in Germany in October, represent GB at the European Team event in Medway in May, and England in the Home Nations competition in Durham in April.

Full Report

February 20, 2016

Hannah is bringing another medal back to the club, this time bronze coming 3rd in the Bristol LPJS foil U15 girls, well done Hannah. 

Hannah fenced really well in her poules winning 5 (easily, 2 were 5:0 and 3 were 5:1) and losing 2 (both 3:5). She won her first de 15:3 and then had semi final where she faced Teegan (from Newham) and was defeated (Teegan went on to win gold). Hannah ended up in 3rd place so got a bronze medal. It was a really good competition and she had a great day.

February 13, 2016

Hannah, Silvia & Andrew Brown of HFC travelled to Norwich over the past weekend to take part in UEA Master of Arms event. Also there was Jon Nottingham although not a member of HFC is a frequent visitor.

Silvia and Andrew competed in all 3 weapons with Hannah only in the foil.

Jon entered just the epee.

Hannah was the only 'youth' entry and but this didn't phase her at all. There were 20 entrants (5 were women, although because of the draw she only fenced men).

Full report

January 24, 2016

There were 8 club members at the CFA foil championships.

Hannah, Sylvia Brown and Amy  in the women’s event.

Caleb Dyne, Dan Tozer, Richard Sage, Jacques Portal & Dan in the men’s event.

There were 5 medals won by HFC fencers across both the women's and the men's events. Well done to everyone who took part in a good days fencing and congratulations to those who won medals. A particular thanks to Dan Tozer who not only fenced but organised/ran the competition.

Full Report and Pictures

January 23, 2016

There were 4 club members who travelled to Grays in Essex for the above event and I am very pleased to announce that 1 gold and 1 silver medal came back. Congratulations to Dan and Hannah on their medals, as well as Caleb and Zoe who fought well against tough competition.

The Championships are divided by age group and gender so there are 8 competitions on the day. U12, U14, U16 & U18 separated into Boys and Girls.

Read the full report by Mike Elis to find out how the day went! 

Full report with pictures

January 16, 2016

Congratulations to Tim Bissell who gained silver, going out 10/7 to John Prime in the final of the Men's event and to Sylvia Brown who took Gold in the Women's event. 

Full Report and Pictures of Medalists

December 06, 2015

Taken from the Cambs Evening News Newspaper Online:

FENCING: Young fencers from Huntingdonshire Fencing Club gained valuable experience of competition at the Cambridgeshire County Junior Pairs tournament at Sawston. The event brought many of the county's top junior fencers together, with the Huntingdonshire club entering four pairs into the event.

Each pair was made up of one under-13 fencer and one over-13 fencer. Lena and Tom were the best performers for Huntingdonshire, achieving an eighth place finish. Other pairings that fenced well, and impressed during the competition, were Amy and Rose, Caleb and Alex, and Zoe and Giorgiana.

The competition was won by a pair from Cambridge Sword.

Read more: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Huntingdonshire-Fencing-Club-members-gain/story-28347926-detail/story.html#ixzz3wTri5yqx 
 

November 05, 2015

Jacques Portal and Dan both fenced well, with Jacques being ranked 12th after the poules and Dan having been undefeated sitting at 3rd place earning him a by to the first round of D.E. Jacques continued his good form through the second round of poules before losing 11/15 to Florent Boyer of Watford in a hard fought fight.

Dan having had a bye to first round of D.E's began his fight towards his eventual well deserved win, having several tough D.E fights to get there.

October 21, 2015

Richard Sage was in the gold winning foil team at the vetrans world championships held in Limoge, France. The team consisting of Paul Wedge, Richard Sage, Brian Causton, John Triano, Tony Bartlett and Malcolm Fare beat Germany in the final 30/24.

September 04, 2015

Jacques took silver medal at the Northampton County Championships at the weekend. Well done Jacques.

August 15, 2015

Jacques won a bronze medal as well as best veteran prize. Dan who has recently started fencing at HFC also gained a bronze medal.

Hannah fenced very well all day to make third in the junior competition and was also the only girl to make the medals.

June 13, 2015

Tracey Coates and Sylvia Earl both gained a medal at the 2015 British Veterans Age Group competiton, silver for Tracey in women's foil and bronze for Sylvia in women's sabre.

Sylvia qualified to go to the Vetrans' World Championships in Limoge, France.

May 22, 2015

George Partridge fought through a well attended Eastern Region Epee competition to beat Chris Howser of OPS in the final. Matt Dalton was third, Jean-Luc Janet and Tim Bissell joint sixth.

Tracey Coates beat in the final of the womens foil.

Joshua Coates came sixth in the Men's Foil.

Dan Tozer came third in the Men's Sabre.

Well done to everyone! 

March 15, 2015

Tracey Coates secured a bronze medal and best veteran prize in women's foil at the Invicta open held in Kent.

March 01, 2015

HFC fencers took first, second and third place at the recent county epee competition with Matt Dalton beating Tim Bissell in the final, George Partridge rounded out the medal spots coming third.

March 15, 2015

Sam came third in the Under 18 Boys Epee competition at Eastern Region Youth Championships.

February 22, 2015

Hunts A fencers Dan, Josh and George fought hard to finish in second place and take the silver medal. 

January 24, 2015

Josh Coates lost in the final to Boya from Cambridge at the 2015 Megafoil competition.