Halle Germany International Cadet Foil

At the same time as the Youth Series Halle, Germany Jamie Fitzgerald was competing in an international cadet (U17) competition carrying GB ranking points for his bid to make the GB team for the world championships.

Jamie finished in 5th place overall.

Allstar UK Youth Series Round 1

On day two of round 1 on Sunday 4th November 5 WFFC members competed and finished as follows:

U14 Sabre

Scott Davidson GOLD

Scott Brown BRONZE

Kate Daykin BEST GIRL

U14 Epee

Iain Russell SILVER

Jordan Euston BRONZE

Best U12 Iain Russell

Thanks to WFFC members Natasha Thomson, Callum O'Donnell, Iain Skicko, Andrew Harding and Steven Russell who all helped to referee at the event.

The first day of the first round of the Allstar UK sponsored Scottish Fencing run Youth Series took place at Inverkeithing High School on Saturday 3rd November.

14 young WFFC members took part in various competitions winning a total of 12 medals between them.

U10 Mixed Foil

Kyle Sadegphoor SILVER

Jessica Corby BRONZE

Best U9 Kyle Sadegphoor

U12 Girls Foil

Niamh O'Donnell GOLD

Katie Daykin BRONZE

Phoebe Whitlock 6th

Best U11 Niamh O'Donnell

U12 Boys Foil

Etienne Sadegphoor GOLD

Iain Russell SILVER

Conor Coughley BRONZE

Jonathan Blackburn 5th

Jordan Miller 11th

U14 Boys Foil

Scott Brown GOLD

Scott Davidson SILVER

Conor MacGregor 6th

Alex Monk 9th

Best U13 Scott Brown

Winners of WFFC Style Prizes Phoebe Whitlock, Conor MacGregor and Jordan Miller

Meantime in Halle, Germany Jamie Fitzgerald is competing in an international cadet (U17) competition carrying GB ranking points for his bid to make the GB team for the world championships.

Jamie has competed in three rounds of poules. Winning 6/6 in round one, 6/6 in round two and losing only one fight in round three. This puts Jamie through to the last 64 and day two of the comeptition where he will have direct eliminations fights. We wish Jamie the best of luck.

Junior European Championships

Club Alumnus Chris Harding finished 63rd in the Men's Epee.

The GB team finished in 22nd position.

Scottish Schools Individual Championships

Congratulations to our newest Scottish Championships

Natasha Thomson O16 Foil & O16 Sabre

Ruth Clarke U16 Foil

Callum O'Donnell U16 Foil

Ali Evans U16 Sabre

Andrew Harding U16 Epee

Scott Brown U14 Epee

Full WFFC Results

Under 14 Boys Foil

2 BROWN Scott  SILVER DUNFERMLINE HIGH
3 DAVIDSON Scott BRONZE QUEEN ANNE HIGH
5 RUSSELL Iain DUNFERMLINE HIGH
7 MONK Alex QUEEN ANNE HIGH
8 MACGREGOR Conor WOODMILL HIGH

Under 16 Boys Foil
1 O'DONNELL Callum GOLD ST COLUMBAS HIGH
2 RUSSELL Steven SILVER QUEEN ANNE HIGH
3 AVRIL Casey BRONZE HARRIS ACADEMY
3 HARDING Andrew QUEEN ANNE HIGH
9 WINTER Andrew QUEEN ANNE HIGH


Under 16 Girls Foil
1 CLARKE Ruth GOLD DOLLAR ACADEMY
6 SAYERS Zoe BO'NESS ACADEMY

Over 16 Boys Foil
3 EUSTON Matthew BRONZE BO'NESS ACADEMY
13 MANN Gavin QUEEN ANNE HIGH


Over 16 Girls Foil
1 THOMSON Natasha GOLD QUEEN ANNE HIGH

Under 14 Boys Epee
1 BROWN Scott GOLD DUNFERMLINE HIGH
2 DAVIDSON Scott SILVER   QUEEN ANNE HIGH
3 RUSSELL BRONZE Ian DUNFERMLINE HIGH
7 EUSTON Jordan BO'NESS ACADEMY
8 MONK Alex QUEEN ANNE HIGH


Under 16 Boys Epee
1 HARDING Andrew GOLD QUEEN ANNE HIGH
3 JOHNSTON Josh BRONZE PERTH HIGH SCHOOL
5 WINTER Andrew QUEEN ANNE HIGH
7 RUSSELL Steven QUEEN ANNE HIGH



Over 16 Boys Epee
2 SKICKO Ian SILVER   WOODMILL HIGH
9 MANN Gavin QUEEN ANNE HIGH


Open Girls Epee
2 DUFFUS Amy SILVER   DOLLAR ACADEMY
3 THOMSON Natasha BRONZE QUEEN ANNE HIGH
5 EVANS Ali DUNFERMLINE HIGH
8 PICKERING Nicole ERSKINE STEWARTS MELVILLE
9 COYLE Ellie QUEEN ANNE HIGH


Under 14 Boys Sabre
2 DAVIDSON ScottSILVER   QUEEN ANNE HIGH
3 RUSSELL Iain BRONZE DUNFERMLINE HIGH
6 BROWN Scott DUNFERMLINE HIGH


Under 16 Boys Sabre
3 HARDING Andrew BRONZE QUEEN ANNE HIGH
5 RUSSELL Steven QUEEN ANNE HIGH
7 WINTER Andrew QUEEN ANNE HIGH



Under 16 Girls Sabre
1 EVANS Ali GOLD DUNFERMLINE HIGH
2 PICKERING Nicole SILVER   ERSKINE STEWART MELVILLE
7 COYLE Ellie QUEEN ANNE HIGH
9 DUFFUS Amy DOLLAR ACADEMY

Over 16 Girls Sabre
1 THOMSON Natasha GOLD QUEEN ANNE HIGH

Over 16 Boys Sabre
8 MANN Gavin QUEEN ANNE HIGH

Under 16 Boys Master-at -Arms
Andrew Harding QUEEN ANNE HIGH SCHOOL


Girls Master-at-Arms
Natasha Thomson QUEEN ANNE HIGH SCHOOL


BEST BOYS SCHOOL
QUEEN ANNE HIGH SCHOOL


BEST GIRLS SCHOOL
LINLITHGOW ACADEMY

Full Results can be found HERE

International Results

Coup de Samaria Bratislava

Natasha Thomson 15th

Pont de Sor, Portugal (Junior A Grade)

Amy Duffus 32nd

Eden Cup (Junior A Grade)

Jamie Fitzgerald 59th

Central Section Championships

Women's Epee

Ali Evans GOLD

Ellie Coyle 5th

Men's Epee

Chris Harding GOLD

Andrew HardingBRONZE

Josh Johnston 6th

British Cadet & Junior Championships

U17 Girls Foil

Natasha Thomson GOLD - BRITISH CADET CHAMPION

Ruth Clarke 5th

Zoe Sayers 36th

U17 Boys Foil

Jamie Fitzgerald BRONZE

Callum O'Donnell 10th

Casey Avril 10th

Jordan Curran 56th

Steven Russell 58th

Darren Brown 63rd

U17 Girls Epee

Ali Evans 11th

Amy Duffus 13th

Ellie Coyle 19th

U17 Girls Sabre

Nicole Pickering 20th

U17 Boys Epee

Josh Johnston 18th

Andrew Harding 27th

Andrew Winter 45th

Congratulations to Natasha on her 3rd British title!

Well done to everyone else - there are some great results here especially as all bar two fencers get to compete in the same competition next season.

U20 Girls Epee

Ali Evans 6th

Kirsty Thomson 22nd

Amy Duffus 28th

Ellie Coyle 42nd

U20 Boys Foil

Callum O'Donnell 7th

Jamie Fitzgerald 8th

Steven Russell 49th

Casey Avril 59th

U20 Girls Foil

Natasha Thomson 12th

Ruth Clarke 29th

Zoe Sayers 46th

U20 Boys Sabre

Neil McGibbon 13th

David McGhie 19th

U20 Boys Epee

Chris Harding 16th

Chris McCall 34th

Andrew Winter 40th

Josh Johnston 43rd

Ian Skicko 69th

Andrew Harding 75th

U20 Girls Sabre

Nicole Pickering 27th

Manchester Cadet Tournament

Boys Foil

Jamie Fitzgerald GOLD

Jordan Curran 21st

Casey Avril 23rd

Callum O'Donnell 28th

Steven Russell 47th

Darren Brown 29th

Girls Foil

Natasha Thomson 5th

Ruth Clarke 11th

Zoe Sayers 32nd

Boys Epee

Josh Johnston 18th

Andrew Harding 40th

Andrew Winter 42nd

Girls Epee

Ellie Coyle 22nd

Ali Evans 24th

Amy Duffus 33rd

Girls Sabre

Nicole Pickering 23rd

Durham Leon Paul Foil

U9 Boys Foil

Kyle Sadeghpoor BRONZE

U11 Boys Foil

Iain Russell BRONZE

Etienne Sadehpoor 6th

U13 Boys Foil

Scott Brown

U15 Boys Foil

Darren Brown 5th

Steven Russell 8th

UK SCHOOLS GAMES FULL WFFC RESULTS

Women's Foil

Natasha Thomson - SILVER

Ruth Clarke 9th

Men's Foil

Jamie Fitzgerald - BRONZE

Callum O'Donnell - 7th

Jordan Curran - 12th

Casey Avril - 14th

Women's Epee

Ali Evans - 5th

Amy Duffus - 11th

Men's Sabre

Neil McGibbon - 5th

Men's Epee

Ian Skicko - 8th

Josh Johnston - 12th

Scotland Team

Women's Foil - SILVER

Women's Epee - SILVER

Men's Sabre - SILVER

Men's Foil - BRONZE

Men's Epee - BRONZE

Full Results can be found on the UK Schools Games Website HERE

CORNWALL LEON PAUL FOIL

Zoe Sayers took time out from her summer holiday to compete in the Cornwall Leon Paul foil.

Zoe is coming home with Cornish bronze after losing to eventual silver medallist Jzuee Pradhan of Salle Eton.

GB SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007

The GB Senior Championships were held at the England Institue of Sport in Sheffield on Saturday 21st July.

The field in all weapons was strong with top fencers such as Jo Maynard, John Willis, Anna Bentley, Alex O'Connell, Louise Bond Williams & Richard Kruse in attendance.

Men's Foil

Jamie Fitzgerald produced the best result of the day. Jamie won all his fights in the poule and secured a bye into the last 64. This then saw Jamie up against youngster Pascal Delaney a small yet tricky opponent. Jamie won comfortably 15/8 to set up a meeting against Jamie Kenber. In a match that was exciting to watch Kenber gave Jamie a run for his money with Jamie playing catch up in the third period from 12/14 down. Jamie pulled back to emerge victorious with a score of 15/14 - Whew! This put Jamie into the medal positions of the last 8 where he went out to eventual silver medallist Lawrence Halstead 15/5 to finish 7th. Halstead went on to lose in the final to Scottish Olympian Richard Kruse.

Callum O'Donnell started well finishing the poule 3 up 3 down.  This set him up for a 128 match with Mark Evans where the greater experience of his opponent proved too much and Callum went out 15/11 to finish 39th.

Casey Avril attended his first GB Senior Championships and although he fenced well in the poules he only had one victory and did not make the cut. Casey finished 88th.

Men's Epee

Chris Harding had a fantastic day in the biggest competition in terms of entries.

Chris started well in the poules winning??. He met fellow Scottish junior Joe Craig in the last 64 and in a clsoe match (15/13)he secured a match with verteran Robin Davenport. A comfortable victory here then gave Chris a draw against recent Heidenheim A Grade winner John Willis. Chris gave Willis his toughest match of the day taking more hits from him than the semi finalist. The eventual score was 15/11 but Willis was impressed by Chris's technique and piste presence and has marked him as someone to watch out for in the future.

Chris finished 13th overall.

Chris McCall despite two victories in his poule was unlucky to not make the cut and finished 90th.

Men's Sabre

Neil McGibbon did not have the best of days and with only on victory in his poule did not make the cut and finished 91st

Women's Foil

Natasha fenced well in the poule wining all her matches bar the one against Scottish Senior team mate Hannah Bryars.

Seeded 14th this secured her a bye into the last 32 and a match with fellow cadet Genevive Mullins who she dipatched 15/10.

This then gave her a much harder draw against one of the medal favourites3rd seeded left hander Claire Bennet. Claire's experience told and in a long match that went to the final period she beat Natasha 15/8 placing Natasha 14th.

This top 16 place at the Nationals has shot Natasha up the British cadet rankings where she is now lying in 2nd place.

Ruth Clarke fenced well in the poules finishing 3 up 3 down to have a seed of 33. She then met fellow Scottish junior Julia Blair in the last 64 and won comfortably 15/4. This then set her up to meet top 10 GB senior Martina Emmanuel in the last 32. Emmanuels greater experience won her through 15/6 and Ruth finished 27th overall. Emmanuel finished in second position behind current GB number 1 Scot Anna Bentley.

Women's Epee

Kirsty had a good poule losing only one match to Jo Beadsworth. This gave her a bye into last 32 where she met 26th seed Mary Cohen . In a very close match where the lead changed several times Kirsty was in the lead by 1 point with about a minute to go. Unfortunately Cohen equalized then went into the lead, Kirsty had no other choice but to go forward and try and score and lost the match 15-13. Mary Cohen went on to win the British Championships.

Kirsty finished in 18th place.

Ali also only lost one fight in her poule to GB top 10 senior Jo Maynard.

A bye to the last 64 saw her meet old adversary Katherine Gracey. Gracey in a reversal of their last four meetings beat Ali 15/14. Ali finished 35th overall.

Amy was not quite so succesful in the poule losing two matches. This then gave ger a last 64 match which she won. This then put her into the last 32 against junior Elizabeth Highton. Highton's greater experience and reach saw her win comfortably leaving Amy with a finishing position of 31st.

On Sunday Kirsty, Amy and Ali entered the team event and finished in 11th position.

Click HERE for some video of the finals - courtesy of Leon Paul sponsors of the GB Championships.

Click HERE for photgraphs of some of the WFFC fencers in action.

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 FOUR

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE HAS CHANGED FROM THE ORGINAL PUBLISHED DATE TO THE 2nd AND 3rd OF JUNE 2007.

Entry form can be found HERE

The positions table for the Youth Series has been posted HERE after the third round of the series.

Congratulations to our “table toppers”

U12 Boys Foil Scott Brown, Iain Russell & Etienne Sadeghpoor 1, 2 & 3

Scott has won all three competitions so far so he will be the series winner no matter if Iain or Etienne or one of the Connors can stop his winning streak in round four.

U14 Boys Foil Andrew Harding, Casey Avril, Darren Brown & Scott Davidson 1,2 and joint 3 and following closely behind in 5th place Steven Russell. With only 4 points between the first and third place the series winner can’t be predicted so this should make for an exciting final round!

U14 Girls Foil Ruth Clarke and Ellie Coyle 1 & 2 and Zoe Sayers in 5th.

Ruth has won all three comps so far so she cannot be toppled from the number one spot but can she maintain the winning streak or can one of the others win round 4?

U14 Boys Epee – the whole competitions has only consisted of WFFC fencers so far so we occupy positions 1 to 7. However it is close at the top of the table and the eventual winner will be decided at round 4.

Andrew Harding, Scott Davidson, Jordan Euston and Iain Russell hold spots 1 to 4.

U14 Girls Epee Ellie Coyle 1 and Zoe Sayers 3. With only 5 points between 1st and 3rd place the competition is wide open and again will be decided at round 4.

U14 Girls Sabre Ruth Clarke 1.

Ruth is collecting titles this season she has a 27 point lead on her nearest rival and will collect the overall trophy – but can she win round 4 to make it a clean sweep?

U14 Boys Sabre Ruairi Mair, Darren Brown, Steven Russell 1, 2 & 3. Ruairi has a 26 point lead so will win the series title but Casey Avril won round three so can he Steven or Darren take the round 4 gold medal?

Looks like round four will be a very exciting competition although several of our fencers have sewn up overall titles some are still up for grabs - and will knowing they have won overall cause some of the competitors to relax and allow their rivals to win gold at round four???  Top spot is hard to get to but even harder to keep………….. watch this space for the final and exciting conclusion to the 2007 Youth Series.

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 McC