North West Gold Rush!
The Scottish invasion of north west England returned 3 gold medals today.
At the British Veterans Championship at the Manchester Fencing Centre Georgina Usher (Salle Paul) claimed gold in the women’s epee. Georgina dominated all day, winning all her poule fights to be 1st seed going into the DEs. A position she never gave up, winning the final 10-4.
Elsewhere in the women’s epee frequent travel companions and friends Karen Grant (West Fife, 20th) and Maggie Tait (Orkney, 22nd) both made the L32.
Down the road in Liverpool at the British Fencing foil BRC, Ann-Emma Hu (Edinburgh Fencing Club) and Nye Ulferts-Kilpatrick (Salle Holyrood) made it a Scottish gold double.
Nye emerged from two rounds of poules undefeated and proceeded to battle through his DEs to win an exciting final 15-13.
Ann-Emma was seeded 4th after the poules before winning her DEs 15-3, 15-9, 15-5 and 15-8 to reach the final which she won 15-11.
Imogen Cook (Salle Holyrood, 7th) made an excellent L8 while, Thomas Walton (Salle Holyrood 9th), Zoe Wagstaff (Salle Holyrood 9th), Lev-Jac Hu (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 12th), Abigael McVinnie (Salle Holyrood ,14th), David Kelly (Salle Holyrood, 14th) and Soohie Schofield (Firth Valley Fencing, 16th) all made the L16.
In the L32 we had Lauren Byrne (19th), Merryn Ulferts-Kilpatrick (25th), Michael Ramage (25th), Marco Scully (28th) and James Harvey (31st) and then in the L64 there was Euan Drummond Murray (35th) and Joseph Cox (37th) all of whom fence at Salle Holyrood. What an effort!!!
Joseph and Euan went home with gold and silver medals respectively from the secondary competition to take more bling north up the M6.
Before we leave the north west and head south for the sabre action there are still three events at the British Veterans Championship to report on.
First off Paul Stanbridge (Salle Holyrood)won a bronze medal in a highly competitive men’s foil event on Friday.
Shelia Anderson (Glasgow West End, 6th) and Nick Mort (Saxon, 8th) both finished in the L8, with Mike McKay (Sheffield Buccaneers, 9th) making the L16 and Kevin Mline (West Lothian, 30th) falling in the L32.
The men’s epee was very well attended with a L128 being required! Hugh Kernohan (Salle Paul) was the highest placed scot claiming a L16 place to finish 12th.
Niall Campbell finished 31st in what is a rare epee credit for Salle Ossian, fabulous to see.
Malcom Donnie (Glasgow West End, 48th), Andrew Munley (55th) and Brent Myers (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 62nd) made the L64 with Sam McCarlie (West Fife Fencing, 69th) and Alan Stewart (West Lothian Fencing, 72nd) succumbing in the L128.
Leaving the north west for the evening the next of the days results come from the Senior Hamlet Sabre event, which again was very well attended.
Kate Daykin (Salle Ossian) won bronze, narrowly missing out on the final 15-12. A great result.
Jessica Corby (5th) and Elsie Llewellyn (Sancroft Blades, 7th) finished in the top 8.
Rory McLellan (Edinburgh University Fencing Club, 15th) reached the L16, while Giulia Gasparin (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 17th), Rosalind Graham (Sancroft Blades, 21st) and Caitlin Quinn (Salle Ossian, 31st) made the L32.
Hannah Toy (Sancroft Blades, 34th), Julian Ghosh (Camden Fencing Club, 34th), Cerys Manning (University of Glasgow, 35th) and Ethan Llewellyn (Sancroft Blades, 42nd) all went out in the L64. Jack Geddes (Salle Ossian, 72nd) and Andy Pearson (Sancroft Blades, 79th) bowed out in the L128.
The final event of the day was the British Fencing U23 Women’s Epee Championship at the Leon Paul centre in Hendon.
There were only two Scottish competitors (although some more are based in Scotland) taking part.
Rachel Lever (University of Nottingham) reached the L16 to finish 10th and Dana Fielding (West Fife Fencing) went out in the L64 to finish 46th.
What a weekend - talk about #ForgingTheFuture…
