Doric Open
Several fencers travelled to Aberdeen to take part in the last Scottish Open of the season.
Chris Harding was the only fencer to win a medal in the main event. Chris won the Men's Epee trophy for the second year running, making this Christophers third victory in a Scottish open this season - he has already taken the Glasgow and Inverclyde gold medals.
Chris also lifted the Best School Pupil trophy, however this is one trophy he won't be able to defend next season!
Well done Chris!
Chris may have been our only medallist in the main competition but at the Doric they run a plate competition for those who are knocked out after the first round of the DE's and here our younger fencers had more success with Andrew Harding beating club mate Chris McCall in the men's epee final, Andrew Winter taking bronze and Steven Russell finished 5th. In men's sabre Neil McGibbon finished in the silver position behind Niall Murdoch of Dundee.
The main competition places of all WFFC fencers are shown below but thanks to the efforts of all our competitors WFFC finished in 6th place in the club listings - well done boys!
Men's Epee
Chris Harding - GOLD
Josh Johnston -13th
Chris McCall - 21st
Andrew Harding - 22nd
Steven Russell - 24th
Andrew Winter - 30th
Men's Foil
Steven Russell - 20th
Men's Sabre
Neil McGibbon - 8th
Gateshead International
Several of the girls travelled to Gateshead to take part in the International women's foil and epee competitions.
Although the fields in both events were small they were of high standards.
In the women's epee Ali Evans and Amy Duffus failed to make the cut after the poules.
Kirsty Thomson had rather a better day winning all her poule fights and coming out as second seed.
She then met Elizabeth Highton in the L16 and emerged victorious with a score of 15/13.
This then earned her a L8 fight against Anneka Lawrence which she won 15/12.
Into the L4 and a guaranteed medal!
A meeting with Elisa Albini ended Kirsty's winning streak 15/11.
However Kirsty will come home with both a bronze medal and some world ranking points.
In the women's foil event sister Natasha was not quite so fortunate although she did well in the poules and finished with a seeding of 3 with only 11 in the event Natasha met a Kazakhstan fencer who proved a little too strong on the day and Natasha went out in her first DE 15/8.
Cole Cup
Neil McGibbon travelled to Gateshead to take part in the Cole Cup an interntational satellite event carrying world ranking points.
Neil met the number 4 seed Peter Wright in the L32 and against the odds Neil prevailed with a 15/11 victory.
This then set Neil up with a L8 meeting with fellow Scot Harry Moncrieff. Unfortunately Harry's greater experience was telling and Neil lost 15/7 to finish 16th overall. Harry went on to win the silver medal.
Bill Hoskyns
Andrew Winter travelled to Stratford Upon Avon to take part in the adult nominated event for Cadet Men's epee. Andrew made the cut after the first round of poules but not the second.
Scottish Senior Championships
The Scottish Senior Championships were held at Grangemouth Sports Centre on Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th June 2007.
Congratulations to Scottish Women's Foil Champion Natasha Thomson - Wooooo Paaa!
Men's Foil
Chris Harding SILVER
Caset Avril BRONZE
Jordan Curran 6th
Matthew Euston 9th
Darren Brown 11th
Steven Russell 12th
Womens' Epee
Kirsty Thomson SILVER
Ali Evans BRONZE
Amy Duffus 7th
Ellie Coyle 8th
Women's Sabre
Nicole Pickering 6th
Women's Foil
Natsah Thomson GOLD
Ruth Clarke SILVER
Ellie Coyle 5th
Men's Sabre
Neil McGibbon SILVER
Ruairi Mair 6th
Men's Epee
Chris McCall 6th
Ian Skicko 7th
Archie Stewart 8th
Andrew Harding 9th
Steven Russell 11th
Josh Johnston 15th
Andrew Winter 16th
Full results can be found HERE
Scottish Leon Paul Foil
The Scottish leg of the popular Leon Paul Series was hosted by Wallace Fencing Academy at Grangemouth Sports Centre on Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th July.
Full WFFC Results Below:
U11 Boys Epee
Iain Russell SILVER
Iain lost 10/9 in the final.
U13 Boys Epee
Jordan Euston BRONZE
Jordan lost to runner up Callum De St Croix of Wallace.
U15 Boys Epee
Josh Johnston SILVER
Archie Stewart BRONZE
Darren Brown BRONZE
Steven Russell 5th
Andrew Harding 7th
Andrew Winter 8th
With 6 fencers in the last 8 WFFC members had some tough matches against their clubmates.
In the last 8's Andrew Winter lost to Archie and Andrew Harding to Josh. Steven lost to the eventual winner Matt Henderson.
In the semi finals Darren lost to Josh in close match and Archie to Matt Henderson.
Josh then met Matt Henderson and in a reversal of fortunes from their last meeting at Durham finished in the silver medal position.
U17 Boys Epee
Matthew Euston 5th
U9 Boys Foil
Kyle Sadgepoor
U11 Boys Foil
Etienne Sadgepoor GOLD
Iain Russell SILVER
Connor Coughley BRONZE
Jonathan Blackburn 6th
Iain and Jonathan met in the last eight with Iain proving just too much for Jonathan in the end.
Etienne and Connor met in the first semi final and in a nice match Etienne proved the stronger fencer on the day.
Iain then met a left hander from Lazlo's to secure a place in the final with Etienne.
Etienne continued his winning streak beating Iain to add another gold medal to his recent Scottish U12 medal.
U13 Boys Foil
Scott Davidson 10th
Scott Brown 11th
Conor MacGregor 12th
Alex Monk 16th
No medals but some very nice fencing from all our boys................
Scott Davidson went out to eventual bronze medallist Calum De St Croix of Wallace.
Scott Brown in a close tense match lost to Matthew Duggan of Cressy. Matthew eventually finished 7th.
Connor MacGregor went out to Thomas Corlett of Braaid Isle of Man, Thomas finished 6th overall.
Alex Monk lost to eventual silver medallist Mark Cudworth of Salle Kiss.
U15 Boys Foil
Darren Brown BRONZE
Steven Russell 8th
Darren lost to silver medallist Alex Tofalides of Salle Paul while Steven lost to the winner John Swain of Lazlo's.
U17 Boys Foil
Matthew Euston BRONZE
Matthew lost to eventual winner Scott Chalmers of Linlithgow.
U17 Girls Foil
Natasha Thomson GOLD
Youth Series Round Four
The final round of the 2007 Scottish Fencing Youth Series was held at Grangemouth Sports Centre on the 2nd & 3rd June.
Congratulations to all the WFFC fencers who took part. Well done especially to Alex and Ben for whom this was their first competition - they both fenced very well and did themselves and the club proud.
Also Wooo Paaa's to those who won the series overall
Casey Avril Scott Brown Ruth Clarke
U14 Boys Foil Overall Winner U12 Boys Foil Overall Winner U14 Girls Foil & Sabre Overall Winner
Ellie Coyle Andrew Harding Ruairi Mair
U14 Girls Epee Joint Winner U14 Boys Epee Overall Winner U14 Boys Sabre Overall Winner
WFFC Results are below:
U14 Boys Epee
Andrew Harding GOLD
Steven Russell SILVER
Jordan Euston BRONZE
Darren Brown BRONZE
Best U13 Jordan Euston
Best U11 Iain Russell
U14 Girls Epee
Ellie Coyle SILVER
U14 Boys Sabre
Ruairi Mair GOLD
U14 Girls Sabre
Ruth Clarke GOLD
U10 Mixed Foil
Ben Wright 6th
U12 Boys Foil
Scott Brown GOLD
Connor Coughley BRONZE
Conor McGregor BRONZE
Best U11 Connor Cloughley
U14 Boys Foil
Casey Avril GOLD
Andrew Harding SILVER
Darren Brown BRONZE
Scott Davidson BRONZE
Alex Monk 8th
Best U13 Scott Davidson
U14 Girls Foil
Ruth Clarke GOLD
Ellie Coyle SILVER
Full results can be found HERE
BRISTOL CADET SABRE
Ruari Mair travelled with a small Scottish party of sabruers to take part in one of the U20 British Selection Circuit events where he finished 21st, the next day he took part in the Bristol Cadet Sabre competition where he finished 9th losing to fellow Scot Matt D'Agostino 15/11.
Thanks to Roy Clarke of Scottish Fencing for organising the trip and managing to keep Ruairi from getting lost!
INVERCLYDE OPEN & SCOTLAND B MATCH
The Scotland B teams containing WFFC members, Ruth Clarke (Women's Foil), Amy Duffus (Women's Epee), Chris Harding (Men's Epee) & Neil McGibbon (Men's Sabre) fenced a friendly match against Ireland, the RAF and the Scottish Vets on Friday before the Inverclyde Open.
All Scotland B teams apart from Men's foil were placed 1st - well done for contributing to the teams success.
The Inverlcyde Open was held on the 26th & 27th May at Inverclyde Nationals Sports Centre.
Chris Harding was the clubs only medallist winning the Men's competition and taking out clubmate Chris McCall in the last 8 on the way.
Full WFFC results are below
Men's Epee
Chris Harding 1st
Chris McCall 5th
Andrew Winter 33rd
Andrew Harding 34th
Men's Sabre
Neil McGibbon 13th
Men's Foil
Casey Avril 11th
Jordan Curran 18th
Steven Russell 24th
Ladies Epee
Ali Evans 5th
Amy Duffus 16th
Ladies Foil
Ruth Clarke 8th
Full results can be found HERE
BRITISH U10 CHAMPIONSHIPS
Niamh O'Donnell travelled to Bristol to take part in the British U10 Championships.
Niamh was 4 up 1 down after the poules and cruised through her first DE 10/2 to make it into the last 8. She then met Charlotte ? who proved too strong and in a reversal of fortune Niamh lost to finish 6th overall.
Niamh finished 6th overall winning not only the STYLE PRIZE but an automatic qualification to the 2008 U12 British Youth Championships.
Woo PAAAAAaaaaaaaaa Niamh.
SCOTTISH U12/U17 & U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS
SEVEN MORE CHAMPIONS FOR WFFC!!
Wooooooo Paaaaaa......
CONGRATULATIONS
The Scottish U12 Foil (Sankey Cups), Scottish U17 & U20 Men's Epee/ Women's Foil and Men's Sabre were held at Grangemouth Sports centre on Saturday 28th April and on Sunday 29th April the U17 & U20 Women's Epee/Women's Sabre and Men's Foil.
Congratulations are due to Natasha Thomson Scottish U17 & U20 Women's Foil Champion, Jamie Fitzgerald Scottish U17 & U20 Men's Foil Champion, Kirsty Thomson Scottish U20 Women's Epee Champion, Chris Harding Scottish U20 Men's Epee Champion and Etienne Sadeghpoor Scottish U12 Boys Foil Champion.
Well done to all our competitors! Many won medals but those who didn't all fenced very well and those younger U14 fencers who competed out of age group more than held their own and were a credit to the club our champions should watch out for them in the future!!
WFFC Results are:
U17 Men's Foil
GOLD Jamie Fitzgerald - SCOTTISH U17 FOIL CHAMPION
BRONZE Callum O'Donnell
BRONZE Scott Davidson
5th Matthew Euston, 7th Casey Avril, 8th Steven Russell, 9th Darren Brown
U20 Men's Foil
GOLD Jamie Fitzgerald - SCOTTISH U20 FOIL CHAMPION
SILVER Chris Harding
BRONZE Matthew Euston
5th Steven Russell, 6th Casey Avril, 8th Scott Davidson
U17 Women's Epee
SILVER Ali Evans
BRONZE Natasha Thomson
5th Ellie Coyle, 6th Amy Duffus
U20 Women's Epee
GOLD Kirsty Thomson - SCOTTISH U20 EPEE CHAMPION
BRONZE Ali Evans
Amy Duffus
U17 Women's Sabre
SILVER Nicole Pickering
U20 Women's Sabre
BRONZE Nicole Pickering
U12 Boys Foil (Sankey Cups)
GOLD Etienne Sadeghpoor - SCOTTISH U12 FOIL CHAMPION
SILVER Scott Brown
BRONZE Connor Coughley
BRONZE Iain Russell
6th Conor McGregor
U17 Women's Foil
GOLD Natasha Thomson - SCOTTISH WOMEN'S U17 FOIL CHAMPION
BRONZE Ellie Coyle
7th Zoe Sayers
U20 Women's Foil
GOLD Natasha Thomson - SCOTTISH WOMEN'S U20 FOIL CHAMPION
5th Zoe Sayers
U20 Men's Epee
GOLD Chris Harding - SCOTTISH U20 EPEE CHAMPION
BRONZE Chris McCall
5th Matthew Euston, 6th Steven Russell, 7th Andrew Harding
U17 Boys Epee
BRONZE Matthew Euston
BRONZE Archie Stewart
7th Steven Russell, 9th Andrew Harding, 11th Jordan Euston,12th Darren Brown
U17 Boys Sabre
SILVER Neil McGibbon
BRONZE Ruairi Mair
U20 Men's Sabre
SILVER David McGhie
BRONZE Neil McGibbon
Full Results can be found HERE
YOUTH SERIES ROUND THREE
Members of WFFC took part in the Scottish Fencing Youth Series Round Three at Milne's High School, Fochabers on the 22nd April 2007.
Here are their results:
U14 Boys Sabre
GOLD Casey Avril
SILVER Ruairi Mair
U14 Girls Sabre
GOLD Ruth Clarke
U14 Boys Epee
GOLD Andrew Harding
SILVER Darren Brown
BRONZE Steven Russell
BRONZE Scott Davidson
5th Jordan Euston
6th Iain Russell
7th Scott Brown
Best U13 Scott Davidson
Best U12 Scott Brown
Best U11 Iain Russell
U14 Girls Epee
GOLD Ellie Coyle
BRONZE Zoe Sayers
U14 Boys Foil
GOLD Andrew Harding
SILVER Scott Davidson
BRONZE Darren Brown
BRONZE Casey Avril
5th Steven Russell
Best U13 Scott Davidson
U12 Boys Foil
GOLD Scott Brown
SILVER Iain Russell
BRONZE Etienne Sadeghpoor
Best U11 Iain Russell
U14 Girls Foil
GOLD Ruth Clarke
SILVER Ellie Coyle
Full results can be found HERE
GLASGOW OPEN
Men's Epee
Chris Harding won GOLD in the men's epee beating Allan Kennedy of Edinburgh FC in the final - Woo Pa!
Other WFFC results from men's epee were:
Josh Johnston 27th, Chris McCall 29th, Andrew Winter 33rd, Archie Stewart 35th, Andrew Harding 39th and Darren Brown 46th.
Men's Sabre
David McGhie took BRONZE in the men's sabre.
Neil McGibbon was 5th.
Women's Sabre
Nicole Pickering was 11th.
Men's Foil
Chris Harding was THIRD losing 15/12 to last years winner Ben Peggs -not bad for an epeeist Chris 
.
Callum O'Donnell and Jordan Curran both went out in the last 8, Callum losing 15/14 to Chris Harding and Jordan losing 15/8 to Ben Peggs.
No current info on our other foilists Neil McGibbon and Darren Brown, we know that Neil was 25th seed and Darren 46th after the poules and that Niel made to final of the secondary competition - more will follow..................
Full results can be found HERE
Well done to all our fencers!
BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL
Chris Harding was 5 up and 1 down in the poule giving him a seeding of 18 from a field of 144. Chris then met Matt Haynes in the 128 winning 15/9 to progress to the last 64. We don't know who he met here but he was victorious with a score of 15/8 and in the last 32 he beat Richard Lloyd Jones 15/14 to progress to the last 16.
Chris has just lost his last 16 fight 14/12 to finish 14th.
Chris was the highest placed Scottish Junior in his competition. Well done Chris!
Kirsty Thomson and Amy Duffus were the WFFC competitors in the women's epee. Amy did not have a successful poule finishing 1 up 5 down she lost her first DE to finish 81st.
Kirsty was 3 up and 3 down after the poule making her 51st seed and she won her first DE (no scores available). Kirsty lost to Louise Highton 11/8 in the last 64 to finish 52nd.
In women's foil Natasha Thomson was 5 up 1 down in the poules losing only to fellow 5 Nations team mate Liz Wright. This placed her as 15th seed from 71 entries. Natasha's first DE was a relatively easy victory 15/4 to go through to the last 32. Natasha won her last 32 fight 15/7 to progress to the last 16 where she met Elaine Hughes and lost 15/9 to finish 12th overall.
Natasha was the highest placed Scottish Junior in her competition. Well done Tash!
In men's sabre Neil McGibbon's opponents was 3 up and 2 down after the poules in a field of 106. Neil won his first DE (128) to fence the 22nd seed in the last 64 which he won 15/14. He then went out in the last 32's losing 15/14 to the number 11 seed to finish 32nd.
Neil was also the highest placed Scottish Junior in his competition. Well done Neil!
Full results can be found HERE
DURHAM LEON PAUL EPEE
Congratulations to the WFFC fencers who travelled to Durhaml to compete in the third Leon Paul Epee competition of the year.
Seven fencers travelled and five came home with medals! Woo Pa!
U15 Boys
Josh Johnston picked up GOLD in the U15 Boys beating Matt Henderson 15/14 in the final.
Andrew Winter lost 15/14 to Josh in the semi final to take BRONZE and Steven Russell picked up the other BRONZE losing 15/10 to Matt Henderson.
Darren Brown was unlucky to meet club mate Steven Russell in the last 8 and lost 15/14 to finish 6th overall.
U13 Boys
Scott Brown picked up BRONZE in the U13 boys losing 10/9 to Jordan Chang.
Jordan Euston met Simon Whittle in the last 8 and lost 9/5.
U11 Boys
Iain Russell also won BRONZE in the U11 Boys losing 10/8 in the semi final.
5 Nations
Well done to the Scotland Senior team and especially to the WFFC members who competed in Eire this weekend.
Ali Evans, Jamie Fitzgerald, David McGhie, Callum O’Donnell, Natasha Thomson and Kirsty Thomson.
Match resuts are below, further details can be found HERE
Men’s sabre (David McGhie) won against Eire and Northern Ireland, losing to Wales and England.
Women’s sabre won against Eire, Northern Ireland and Wales, losing only to England.
Women’s epee (Ali Evans & Kirsty Thomson)won against Eire, Northern Ireland and Wales, losing only to England.
Women’s foil (Natasha Thomson and Kirsty Thomson) won against Eire, Northern Ireland and Wales, losing only to England.
Men’s epee won against Eire and Northern Ireland, losing to England and Wales.
Men’s foil (Jamie Fitzgerald & Callum O’Donnell) lost all their matches losing to England 45/40, Wales 43/42 (priority hit) and to Eire and Northern Ireland 45/35.
ARNOLD LEON PAUL EPEE
Congratulations to the WFFC fencers who travelled to Blackpool to compete in the first ranking competition of the season for the GB cadets.
Six fencers travelled and three came home with medals! Woo Pa!
Iain Rusell took the GOLD medal in the U11 boys, winning the final 10/6 against Samuel Boyle of Foremarke School.
Jordan Euston won the SILVER medal in the U13 boys losing to Paul Sanchez-Lethem of Brixton in the final.
Josh Johnston won the SILVER medal losing to James Allen of London Thames FC in the final.
Other WFFC results were:
Darren Brown 15th,Steven Russell 18th and Andrew Winter 21st all in the U15 boys.
DUNDEE DUEL
While younger brother Andrew was winning two British Championships Chris Harding was adding to the families haul of silver. To complement his recent gold medal at the BYC's Chris picked up SILVER at the Dundee Duel.
Well done to the WFCC members who took part in the Dundee Duel – especially to Chris, Chris and Josh who made up the “Reaching for the Stars” team and finished in FIRST position.
Other WFFC results are below:
Chris Harding SECOND
Josh Johnston 14th, Chris McCall 16th, Callum Meikle 17th, Archie Stewart 26th, Casey Avril 42nd,
EUROPEAN CADET CHAMPIONSHIPS, Novi Sad, Serbia
The men's foil teams fenced on Saturday 10th March, the team consisted of Jamie Fitzgerald, Marcus Mepstead, Peter Barwell and Husayn Rosowsky.
In the last 16 the GB team were seeded 6th and beat Slovakia 45/42. In the last 8 the boys met the 2nd seeded Hungarian team but lost 44/37.
This then put them through to a fence off for the 5th to 8th places, they then met and were victorious against the Ukraine team 45/30. They then met the french team to fence for 5th place, in a close and exciting match Jamie pulled a stormer out of the bag to beat one frenchman 12/2 near the end of the match. Unfortunately it wasn't quite enough to secure victory and the boys lost 45/41 and finished 6th overall.
Jamie Fitzgerald fenced well in the poules winning 5/1 against Matthias Krammerstorfer of Austria, 5/0 against Romain Moizan of France, 5/3 against Jan Srna of the Czech Republic and losing two fights 5/1 and 5/3 against Tommaso Lari of Italy and Filiposs Nissim of Greece respectively.
This placed Jamie 31st after the poules, he then fenced 34th seed Jan Srna in the last 64 and unfortunately lost 15/14 in extra time. This gives Jamie an overall finish of 39th of 80.
The Edinburgh Open/Coup du Nord event consists of a domestic foil event for men and women and an FIE satellite event for men's and women's epee and sabre.
Held at Edinburgh University Sports complex at The Pleasance in Edinburgh on the 10th March Callum O'Donnell competed in men's foil, Ali Evans & Amy Duffus in women's epee and Neil McGibbon and David McGhie in men's sabre.
Women's Foil
Natasha Thomson competed in the women's foil event on Sunday 11th March.
Tash was third after the second round of poules.
In the semi final she met Scottish 5 Nations team mate Aillie McDerment and lost a close fight 15/10 to finish third.
Natasha Thomson - BRONZE medallist
Men's Epee
Chris Harding fenced well in the poules to achieve a ranking of 4th after the second round of poules.
He met Anton Pollard in the last 8 but unfortunately for Chris the experience of Anton allowed him to win a close fight 15/13, Chris will have a finishing place of 5th.
Men's Foil
There were 38 entries in the men's foil and a cut of 20% was made after the first round of poules.
Callum did well in the first round winning 3 fights of 5 and being seeded 10th.
The second round was seeded from the results of the first round and Callum was placed in a poule of 7 where he again won 3 fights, he was seeded 15th after this round of poules.
Callum then met Davis of Aberdeen City FC in his last 32 DE, he had previously met Davis in the 2nd round of poules where he won 5/0. He put his experience of his opponent to good use and won his first DE match 15/5.
This then put Callum through to the last 16 where he met two time British Champion (U17 and U18) and GB World Cadet team member
( 2002 - I think!). So a tough fight was expected and Callum fought very well but eventually lost 15/10 to finish 14th overall - no disgrace though as Brodie went on to win the competition 15/12 from England's Ben Peggs.
Women's Epee
There were 24 entrants in this competitions. Again two rounds of poules were held with the first round results being used to draw up the second with a 20% cut after round two.
Ali had a good first round poule winning 3 fights of 5 and being seeded 12th, Amy got off to a shakier start only winning one fight but losing a couple very closely, she was seeded 20th after this round.
In the second round Amy again only won one fight but lost two 5/4 and one 5/3 however she survived the 20% cut and retained the 20th seed, Ali again won 3 fights and also lost one fight 5/4 and one 5/3 she also retained her first round seeding of 12th.
This then put the girls through to an incomplete last 32 tableau, Amy met fellow Scottish U16 Youth Team member Emma Byatt (13th seed) of EFC and in a nail biting match Amy prevailed to win 15/13.
Ali had a bye through this round straight into the last 16.
In the last 16 Amy then met Katherine Dolan and in a tough match which went onto the third period she lost 15/10 to finish in 16th place overall.
Ali met 5th seed Megan Lomas again in a tough match Ali managed to force her opponent to the final period of fencing before she was beaten by the more experienced Lomas 15/9. Lomas then went onto reach the final where she was beaten by Lui of HKG.
Men's Sabre
With an entry of 46 this competition followed the same format as previously described above.
Neil and David both fenced very well in their first round of poules winning 4 of 5 and 4 of 6 matches and gaining rankings of 11th and 14th respectively.
Neil didn't have such a good second round winning only 2 of 5 matches earning a ranking of 32 David again won 4 of 6 matches but with slightly less good indicators lost a placing to be seeded 15th.
Neil went onto his first DE 15/11 against Craig Watt, this then left him with the daunting prospect of Julian Nelis in the last 32, Nelis proved just too experienced for Neil this time round though and he lost 15/3 to finish in 31st position.
David had a bye through to the last 32 where he met Cei Beck who proved just a little too tough and in a close match beat David 15/10 on his way through to a final position of 8th place. David finished in 21st position.
QUEEN ANNE TEAM STORMS TO VICTORY - TWICE!!
Scott Davidson, Andrew Harding and Steven Russell travelled to Upper Heyford to take part in the British Schools Teams Championships.
There were 8 foil teams in the boys age group (U13) and 2 poules of 4 teams made up the first round. The boys were decisive in winning the poule 45/7, 45/4 and 45/24.
This took the boys into the semi finals which they won 45/3 against Warwick.
They then fenced in the final against Sussex House A winning 45/31.
On Sunday 4th March the boys took part in the epee tournament. There were 11 teams, round one was 2 poules of 4 teams and 1 poule of three teams.
The Queen Anne boys were in a poule of 4 which they won comfortably 45/6, 45/10 and 45/21.
This took the boys through to the quarter finals which they won 45/4.
The semi final was slightly tougher but the boys won 45/17.
The final was again slightly tougher but once again the boys were decisive in winning 45/19.
WELL DONE SCOTT, ANDREW AND STEVEN.
BAD CANSTATT
Jamie Fitzgerald missed the Junior Home International competition as he was representing Great Britain in Bad Canstatt. Jamie finished 30th in a field of 130.
JUNIOR HOME INTERNATIONAL
Congratulations to all the fencers who competed in Cardiff on the 24th February 2007. Scotland finished in second place overall.
The WFFC fencers who helped make up the teams were:
Casey Avril, Jordan Curran, Amy Duffus, Anthony Duffy, Ali Evans, Andrew Harding, Chris Harding, Chris McCall, Neil McGibbon, Callum Meikle, Callum O’Donnell, Nicole Pickering, Ian Skicko, Kirsty Thomson, Natasha Thomson, Alison Timmins.
Click HERE for the full results.
BRITISH YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS EPEE & SABRE FEB 2007
CONGRATULATIONS
(or Woooooooooooooo Pa)
To Chris Harding U18 Boys Epee Champion and to his brother Andrew runner up in the U14 Boys epee.
Congratulations also to Jamie Fitzgerald silver medallist in the U16 boys sabre and Darren Brown bronze medallist in the U14 boys epee.
Last eight medallists were Ellie Coyle 7th U14 girls epee, Natasha Thomson 7th U16 girls epee, Kirsty Thomson 5th U18 Girls epee, Steven Russell 5th U14 boys epee.
Coupled with the foil results WFFC now boasts another two British Champions, 2 silver medallists, 1 bronze medallist and 5 last eight medallists - a stunning collection for the annual club photo!
Well done to everyone for the hard work that they have put in to achieve these results and although not all of you won medals you all fenced very well and displayed great sportsmanship and support to your club mates who went on further in competitions. We are very proud of you all.
Other results:
U12 Boys epee Iain Russell 9th, Scott Brown 17th
U14 Boys epee Scott Davidson 20th, Jordan Euston 33rd
U16 Boys epee Jamie Fitzgerald 10th, Callum O’Donnell 20th, Andrew Winter 32nd
U16 Girls epee Ali Evans15th, Amy Duffus 17th
U12 Boys sabre Iain Russell 19th
U14 Boys sabre Ruairi Mair 9th, Darren Brown 18th, Steven Russell 21st
U14 Boys sabre Callum O’Donnell 24th
U16 Boys sabre Natasha Thomson 20th, Nicole Pickering 22nd
U18 Boys sabre Neil McGibbon 15th
U18 Girls sabre Kirsty Thomson 15th
YOUTH SERIES ROUND TWO
Members of WFFC took part in the Scottish Fencing run Allstar UK sponsored Youth Series Round Two at Smithycroft High School, Glasgow on the 3rd & 4th Feb 2007.
Here are their results:
U14 Boys Sabre
GOLD Ruairi Mair
SILVER Darren Brown
BRONZE Steven Russell
U14 Boys Epee
GOLD Andrew Harding
SILVER Scott Davidson
BRONZE Jordan Euston
BRONZE Iain Russell
Best U13 Scott Davidson
Best U12 Scott Brown (5th)
Best U11 Iain Russell
U14 Girls Epee
SILVER Zoe Sayers
U14 Boys Foil
GOLD Casey Avril
SILVER Andrew Harding
BRONZE Scott Davidson
BRONZE Steven Russell
Best U13 Scott Davidson
U12 Boys Foil
GOLD Scott Brown
SILVER Conor MacGregor
BRONZE Etienne Sadeghpoor
Best U11 Conor MacGregor
U14 Girls Foil
SILVER Ellie Coyle
BRONZE Zoe Sayers
British Youth Championships Foil Finals were held at Stoke on Trent on the 21st and 22nd of January 2007.
CONGRATULATIONS to NATASHA THOMSON
BRITISH U16 FOIL CHAMPION
Well done to Natasha on her second British title.
Our only other medallist at the foil was Scott Brown who was 6th in the U12 Boys Foil.
Other WFFC Results:
U12 Boys Foil
20th – Iain Russell
26th – Etienne Sadeghpoor
37th – Conor MacGregor
40th – Conor Cloughley
U12 Girls Foil
39th Niamh O'Donnell
U14 Boys Foil
10th – Andrew Harding
22nd – Casey Avril
39th – Steven Russell
41st – Darren Brown
69th – Jordan Euston
U14 Girls Foil
29th – Zoe Sayers
45th – Ellie Coyle
U16 Boys Foil
9th – Jamie Fitzgerald
32nd – Jordan Curran
33rd – Callum O’Donnell
U18 Boys Foil
33rd – Matthew Euston
U18 Girls Foil
9th – Kirsty Thomson
The Scottish Open is the largest open(adult) competition in Scotland and was held at Westwoods Health Club in Edinburgh on the 6th and 7th of January.
Here are the results of the WFFC fencers who took part:
CONGRATULATIONS to our medallists:
Women's Epee
GOLD Kirsty Thomson
BRONZE Natasha Thomson
Women's Foil
BRONZE Natasha Thomson
Other WFFC results were:
Women's Epee
5th Ali Evans
15th Amy Duffus
Women's Foil
5th Kirsty Thomson
25th Zoe Sayers
Men's Foil
7th Jamie Fitzgerald
9th Anthony Duffy
13th Callum O'Donnell
24th Casey Avril
30thMatthew Euston
33rd Jordan Curran
36th Andrew Harding
42nd Darren Brown
Men's Epee
26th Chris McCall
44th Ian Skicko
55th Alasdair McDougall
57th Andrew Winter
Women's Sabre
27th Nicole Pickering
Men's Sabre
12th Neil McGibbon
SCOTTISH SCHOOLS TEAMS
Members of WFFC took part in the Scottish Schools Teams competitions at Grangemouth Sports Centre on the 9th and 10th of December 2006.
Here are the results of the teams they helped represent:
Girls Open Epee
GOLD Queen Anne High School
Boys Open Epee
GOLD Queen Anne High School
Boys Junior Foil
GOLD Queen Anne High School
Girls Senior Foil
GOLD Queen Anne High School
Boys Open Sabre
BRONZE Queen Anne High School
Boys Senior Foil
4TH Queen Anne High School
YOUTH SERIES ROUND ONE
Members of WFFC took part in the Scottish Fencing run Allstar UK sponsored Youth Series Round One at Inverkeithing High School.
Here are their results:
U12 BOYS FOIL
GOLD Scott Brown
SILVER Iain Russell
BRONZE Connor Cloughley
Best U11 Iain Russell
U14 BOYS FOIL
GOLD Darren Brown
SILVER Andrew Harding
BRONZE Casey Avril
BRONZE Scott Davidson
Best U13 Scott Davidson
U14 GIRLS FOIL
SILVER Ellie Coyle
U14 GIRLS EPEE
GOLD Ellie Coyle
U14 BOYS SABRE
GOLD Ruairi Mair
SILVER Darren Brown
BRONZE Steven Russell