It has been a busy weekend of fencing spanning the continent as Scottish fencers put on their Great Britain patches to compete in FIE junior World Cups.
In Luxembourg, at the Epee World Cup, Isaac McKerr (Edinburgh Fencing Club) came through his poule with 3v 3d to be seeded 87th for the DEs.
He then won his L128 15-11 against the 44th seeded fencer to set up a L64 against Urban from Poland. In a close affair Isaac lost out 10-7 to finish the highest placed GB fencer in 60th. A very good result.
Rachael Lever also went 3v3d in her poules to be seeded 98th going into the DEs where she faced the 31st seeded Russian, Rustamova. Unfortunately Rachel lost out by the narrowest of margins 15-14 to finish 101st.
At the junior foil World Cup in Poland Jaimie Cook (Salle Holyrood), making his junior GB debut, and Joe Donaghue (Fencers Club London) took to the piste. Both eased through the poules, Jaime v5d1 and Joe v4d2.
Joe then narrowly lost out in the L128 15-12 to finish 90th.
Jaimie also lost out in the L128 to finish 68th.
In the team event Jaimie anchored GB to a L16 victory over the Ukraine 45-34, winning the final leg 11-2. In the L8 they came up just a little short against a strong Russia team losing 45-32 with Jaimie again anchoring. Next they faced Denmark where they lost by a
Single hit 45-44 before finishing their day with a match against Hungry which they narrowly lost 45-43 to finish 8th.
A Sabre Junior World Cup was taking place in Poland with Rory McLellan (Salle Ossian) fencing for GB. Rory was 1v5d in the poules and unfortunately missed the cut to finish 127th.
In the women’s event Charlotte Wilson-Smith went 2v4d in her poule this put her 106th which meant she just missed the cut for the DEs.
A legion of cadets made the trip south for foil BRC.
David Kelly (33), James Havard (38), Michael Ramage (39), Marco Scully (40) and Euan Drummond-Murray (41) all made the L64, while Merryn Ulferts-Kilpatrick (32), Lauren Byrne (20) reached the L32. All of these were part of the large Salle Holyrood team participating.
Imogen Cook (Salle Holyrood, 10th), Abigail McVinnie (Salle Holyrood 11th), Sophie Schofield (Forth Valley Fencing, 15th) and Lev-Jac Hu (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 16th) progressed as far as the L16.
Ann-Emma Hu (Edinburgh Fencing Club) just missed out on a bronze losing in the L8 to finish a very good 5th.
Nye Ulferts-Kilpatrick (Salle Holyrood) continued his impressive season by winning bronze. 4th seed out of the poules he stormed through his DEs before losing to eventual winner David Sosnov in the L4.
More Scottish epeeists headed south for the Elite Epee and u17 BRC events in Manchester.
In the u17 event Nathan Brown (Forth Valley Fencing) went out in the L64 to finish 38th. Haldane Falby (Forth Valley Fencing, 25th) and Lucas McKerr (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 26th) both reached the L32 before bowing out. Murdo Glen (Forth Valley Fencing, 12th) had a good day making the L16, while Adam Howie (Edinburgh Fencing Club) and Angus Scott (Forth Valley Fencing, 11th) met in an all Scottish L16 with Adam claiming a L8 place 15-11. In the L8 Adam lost out 15-7 to finish an excellent 7th.
In the women’s event Rachel Chalmers (Forth Valley Fencing, 39th) lost by a single hit 15-14 in the L64.
In the senior men’s event Calum Sutherland (Elgin Duelists, 9th) and Jonathan Woollard (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 11th) both reached the L16 in a strong field. Both fencers put out Scottish team mates on route Calum beating Jamie Firth (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 22ndT) and Jonathon beating Dylan Morrison (Edinburgh Fencing Club 20th). Also reaching the L32 ,were Alex Papadopoulos (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 17th) and Campbell Thomson (Brixton, 22ndT). Mark Lauchlan (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 36th), Hugh Kernohan (Salle Paul, 37th) and Jack Wilkie (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 57th) all bowed out in the L64.
Apologies if I have missed anyone and for missing a couple of weeks through illness. It was brilliant to see Calum and Georgina’s great form continue at the Welsh Open.
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