Another busy evening for the club, as club members fought it out for the title of Club Champion.  The format was a Poule Unique, 5 hits, 3 minutes max per bout, and competition-style scoring against 'Total Victories', tied places being decided on Hits Scored minus Hits Received indicators.  

British Fencing offer a full range of training courses to support fencing community, coving the following areas:

• Team Manager Courses
• Coaching Courses
• Welfare Courses
• Refereeing Courses

All upcoming courses can be found here: https://www.britishfencing.com/upcoming-courses/

It was the 35th outing for the O'Sullivan Cup, and with 17 entrants (including 3 from Jersey), there was loads of action and an exciting fence-off for second place.

Results:

Full report - whitchurchfencing.co.uk/sullivan  

Congratulations to Sameer Sunder-Rajan for securing individual silver at the 2024 European Cadet Championships.

Ending a brilliant 2024 season ranked European No.1, Sameer has also won 2 EFC Cadet events in Novi Sad and Klagenfurt en route to the Euros.

BF event report: https://www.britishfencing.com/naples-2024-gbr-win-three-medals-at-european-championships/

Gold in Klagenfurt: https://www.britishfencing.com/efc-cadet-klagenfurt-2/

Gold in Serbia: https://www.britishfencing.com/sunder-rajan-gold-serbia-efc-cadet-epee/

Well done, Sameer!

Welsh Fencing is proud to be supporting the Hay-on-Wye Festival (https://www.hayfestival.com/hay-on-wye/home) this May, as we offer taster and information sessions to members of the public as part of Hay’s Olympic Day on Wednesday 29th May (https://www.hayfestival.com/hay-on-wye/sports-day).

25/26th May saw the Cardiff Vets Open event, held at the Cardiff Academy of Fencing.

For a review of this event by Whitchurch fencing, follow the link: https://www.whitchurchfencing.co.uk/Cardiff%20Veterans%20Open_2024.htm

The full results can be found here: https://results.cymru/results/cardiffvets2024/

Whitchurch Fencing Club held an Open Air Epee match on Sunday, 23 June, in Coity Castle.    A very closely fought and exciting event.   It was a Poule Unique of 8 fencers (so with a maximum score of 7 victories), and at the end of the match, three fencers had six victories  - so the placing was decided on ‘Indicators’, with only 1 point separating second & third places ! 

Results:

Full report on https://www.whitchurchfencing.co.uk/Summer_Shield_2024.htm

We are planning to run the Welsh Vet National Championships 2024 over the weekend of  5/6 October. The venue will be the Cardiff Academy of Fencing.

The proposed schedule is: