More Medals mined in Manchester!
We come to the end of a very busy fencing weekend with the British Veterans Championship Sabre events and the British Fencing Men’s u23 Epee.
At the veterans event more than a dozen Scottish fencers took to the piste.
Vivien Frith (Shakespeare Swords) claimed a hard fought bronze medal and a gold for her category in the women’s sabre.
Michele Narey (Bath Sword, 6th) and Rosalind Graham (Sancroft Blades, 8th) both made the top 8 with Rosalind also winning the gold in her category.
Yvonne Walls (Salle Ossian, 15th) made the L16 with Lorna Smith (Strathclyde University, 19th) making the L32.
In the men’s event Nick Fletcher (House of Sabre, 5th) and Mo Mansoori (Kingston, 6th) we’re the highest finishers both making the L8.
Steven Ferguson (Salle Ossian, 14th), Richard Foster (Exeter City, 15th) and Kevin Mline (West Lothian, 16th) all made the L16, while Keith Davidson (Glasgow West End, 21st), Alex Pearson (Salle Ossian, 22nd), Brent Myers (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 30th) and Alan Stewart (West Lothian, 32nd) went out in the L32. Tom Jarosz-Cromie (Salle Ossian, 33rd) and Sam McCarlie (West Fife, 43rd) made the L64.
In Hendon at the men’s u23 epee championship Isaac McKerr (Edinburgh Fencing Club 7th) narrowly missed out on a medal losing his L8 to the eventual winner 14-15 to finish 7th. On route he had put out fellow scot, and former Dunblane clubmate Fraser O’Brien (University of Bristol, 51st) in the L64. Dylan Morrison (Edinburgh Fencing Club, 21st) made the L32.
Next weekend promises to be equally as busy as a legion of Scots head to London for the Senior nation championships at the Sports Doc. Hopefully it will bring as many medals back north. “
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