Kenilworth Sword Fencing
Club 
Best ever results at the British Youth
Championships National Finals
The Bank Holiday weekend saw
a record 9 Kenilworth Fencers compete in the BYC national finals
at the England Institute of Sport in Sheffield.
Congratulations to Lucy, WIlliam, Alistair and Alasdair,
and especial
congratulations to Ella and Lucas, who both fenced exceptionally
well to not only reach the L16 but to only miss out on
a place in the final tableau by 1 hit - Lucas in
particular going into the DE round as number 39 seed, and
beating the number 26 and number 7 seeds to reach the L16,
winning one fight from three hits behind with only
seconds left to fence!
And of course congratulations to Ellie who maintained her record
at these finals with two bronze medals, in both the U14 girls
epee and foil - the only competitor of the weekend to medal in
two different events.
Record results
for Kenilworth fencers at the BYC qualifiers!
This weekend (23rd/24th January) saw record numbers of
Kenilworth fencers qualify for the national finals of the British
Youth Championships in May.
Easiest route to the finals was taken by Ellie
Cormack, who guaranteed a place in the finals by being a
national finalist in both U14 Foil and Epee last year, and
who didn't need to fence to qualify!
She will be joined by Ella Southall as WM
champion in both U14 Foil and Epee, the best result of the
weekend.
Also qualified is Lucy
Morley with a 3rd
place in the U16 Epee, an excellent result.
The boys events saw two U12 foil qualifiers, William Southall in 3rd and Lucas Hately with
an excellent 2nd place.
Another excellent 2nd place to Alasdair Thorley
in the U16 Boys Epee, making up for a disappointing day in the
Foil competition.
Duncan Thorley (U14 Boys Epee) also made up for
a disappointing foil result with a third place at Epee and a
qualifying slot.
Tom
Richards made the L8 in the
biggest competition of the weekend, the U14 boys foil with over
30 entries, to take a qualifying slot.
And last but not least, Alistair Cormack scored
a last-gasp winning hit in extra time to claim 3rd place and a
qualifying slot in the U18 Boys Foil.
Congratulations to all of you!
2nd Kenilworth Leon Paul Junior
Series event 17th January 2010
The second running of the
Kenilworth Leon Paul foil went as successfully as the first -
lots of fencing, lots of prizes, loads of club fencers taking
part and three Kenilworth medallists:-
Dominic
Sampson - U9 Boys Foil 3rd place
Alex Beswick - U11 Girls Foil 3rd place
and
Ella Southall - 3rd Place
Congratulations,
and a full report will follow when I get the photographs from the
photographer!
Posted 8th
November
Huge congratulations to Louisa
Miller, who passed her final diploma examination at Epee on the
31st October. Having already passed her Foil and Sabre diplomas,
as well as a written examination, this means that Louisa is only
the second woman in the UK to qualify as a full three-weapon
Master and be entitled to the title " Professor"
This achievement has taken several years of hard work and
commitment - well done Professor Miller!
Posted 25th October
Congratulations to our medallists at yesterday's
Warwickshire Age Group
Championships:-
Alistair Cormack (U17 Boys Champion) and Ella Southall (U15
Girls Champion)
Tom Richards (U15 Boys runner-up) and Duncan Thorley (U13 Boys
runner up)
And to William, Finlay, Henry, Travis and Ela for excellent
performances also.
Duncan receiving his U13 boys runner-up
prize.
Posted 8th August 2009
Wednesday 5th
August saw a successful junior training day at John Atkinson Sports Centre, with
18 young fencers taking part in a day of training, both tactical and technical,
on and off the box. Hopefully these training days can play a regular part in
future preparation for competitions for our junior members.
Posted 30th June 2009
A great weekend from all of
Kenilworth's young fencers who were in action this
weekend.
At the English Youth Championships , five fencers were in action and
all performed well in VERY hot conditions.
Ellie went one
better than last year's Bronze medal with TWO Bronzes this
year, in both foil and epee - and in each event only missed out
on a final place by one hit losing 10-9 in the semi
finals. The results means she is selected for the England team
for next year's competitions in Poland (epee) and Paris
(foil) - a great achievement.
Lucas and
Ella each had
excellent pools, winning four fights, and both finished in 18th
place after running into tricky opponents in the DE. Lucas
especially with one more year in the age group performed
extremely well.
Tom and
Lucy also performed
well in the pools with two victories each - Lucy managing to
follow this with a DE victory before going out to the eventual
winner, and Tom pushing his opponent all the way in losing a
fight 10-9 he could just as easily have won. Well done to both of
them
Finally, Oliver Jones ventured a bit further from home to compete
in the Academy Cup , and managed to secure third
place, his second bronze medal in successive competitions - well done!
Posted 16th June 2009
Well done to
all of the Kenilworth fencers who took part in Sunday's
Bromsgrove Challenge - Duncan, Alasdair, William, Stephen,
James and Henry - and a
special mention for Lucas, who fenced
brilliantly to win the U10 boy's title, defeating the
two-times champion in the process, and Oliver
who took an excellent Bronze medal in field of 27, the
biggest competition of the day.
Unfortunately Ellie couldn't defend her Foil and Epee titles
this year as she was fencing in an international Epee team
competition in
Slovenia
Well done
all!
Posted 27th March
2009
A brilliant 24th place yesterday for Ellie out of
104 competitors from 10 countries, in her first International
trip abroad with the Tomorrows Achievers England team to Wroclaw,
Poland to fence in the Challenge Wratislavia. Ellie won
her pool and only narrowly lost her L32 fight 11-12, after losing
priority in the last minute. Well done!
Posted 22nd February 2009
Congratulations to Ellie on winning
her first Elite Epee competition yesterday, after second places
in the first two competitions. She qualifies in first place for
the series final in April.
Posted 5th February
2009
Congratulations to all our Kenilworth
fencers at the
British Youth Championships finals this January
:-
Ellie was 7th and Ella
20th in the U14 Girls Epee
Ellie was 6th and Ella 21st in the U14 Girls
Foil
James was 24th
in the U16 Boys Epee,
Tom was 54th in the U14 Boys Foil
Alasdair was 53rd and Ali 59th in the U16 Boys Foil,
and
Alice was 14th in the
U14 Girls Sabre,
Very well done to all of
them
Results for the club Epee
Averages Competition can be found
HERE
