Veterans' Update #5

Marc Burkhalter Last Updated: 25 September 2025

Hello WF community,

September has been a busy month for our Veteran fencers with 2 key events taking place:

Welsh Veteran National Championships
Veteran Winton Cup

Please find below a short summary from each event plus some pictures of the national podiums and teams from the Winton Cup

Welsh Veteran National Championships

On the weekend of 6th/7th September we hosted the national championships at the Cardiff Academy of Fencing. We had a good turnout across all events allowing for a competitive showing for all weapons. As usual we also had the Master at Arms trophy up for grabs as well as the Spirit of Veterans prize.

The overall results are shown below

Welsh Veterans Closed Championships

Link to the podium pics are on WF Instagram - link below:

https://www.instagram.com/welshfencing?igsh=NXBwNTBmZ3ZqOXFv

Master At Arms winners were Ruth Rowland and Lyn Robinson for the women and Marc Burkhalter for the men (though Olly would have almost certainly won if he didn't have to head home last minute on the Sunday).

The Spirit of the Veterans prize was awarded to Phil Shepherd Foster

Many congratulations to all our 2025 national champions

Veteran Winton Cup

Over the last weekend (20th/21st September) we ventured to the open spaces of Lilleshall in Shropshire to once again pit ourselves against the other regions in an aim to identify the top dogs of Veterans fencing.

The pictures of the teams and event result are below/attached.

Special mention to our Men's Sabre team who narrowly missed out on winning their event to London and to our Men's Epee team who ran Southern and South East close in a very competitive men's epee category. Finally our top women's team was in foil.

Across the board the team fenced incredibly well achieving significant improvements compared to previous years and as always we fenced with our usual gusto, fun and yet again came out as everyone's favourite region!

Weapon positions are as follows:

WF	WE	WS	MF	ME	MS
4th	7th	5th	6th	3rd	2nd

Our final overall position was 4^th behind South East (who had most of the british squad in their ranks), Southern and South West - the South East are maybe out of reach but an aim of 2^nd for the years to come is a real possibility.

Well done to everyone involved!