Beverly Chan has passed away. She was a great friend of Australian fencing and a force within the administration of the sport, both at the national level and here at UTS Fencing Club. She inspired and helped many fencers and will be very much missed.
More gold, silver and bronze medals for our UTS fencers this afternoon in both individual and team categories. (Six gold, two silver, one bronze). Photo gallery below the results.
Congratulations to :
Veteran Men’s Sabre Gold: Radu Vintila Silver: George Foster
Veteran Women’s Sabre Gold: Min Yi Du
Senior Men’s Sabre Bronze: Joshua Roncolato
Senior Women’s Foil Team Gold: NSW (UTS Fencer: Alisa Tyshchenko)
Senior Men’s Sabre Team Gold: NSW A (UTS Fencer: Yoongi Shim) Silver: NSW B (UTS Fencer: Roncolato
Veteran Women’s Sabre Team Gold: NSW (UTS Fencers: Min Yi Du, Annabelle Ballard)
Veteran Men’s Sabre Team Gold: NSW (A team composed of all UTS Fencers: Radu Vintila, George Foster, Andrey Tyshchenko)
Congratulations to Alisa on winning the Gold medal and becoming national open foil champion at the Australian Championships in Melbourne this afternoon! A few images below courtesy of the live feed from the event organised through Kayo and Fencing Victoria
Training – operational process and adherence to safety practices The Club’s COVID-19 Safety Requirements are to be carried out in the strict adherence to practices and conditions that would help safeguard the health and safety of participants as well as the general community.
As required by UTS Sport, UTS Fencing will ask all our members and visitors adhere to all rules whilst training at at any UTS Fencing training session to ensure a safe environment with minimal risk of COVID-19 transmission. Please carefully read through the main principles below which will apply for all participants.
Before you attend training
Ensureyour 2021 UTS Fencing Club membership/visitor fee has been paid
Complete the online registrations system with the club for each training session by the specified time.
It is Strongly Recommended that before coming to the Club you GET DRESSED FOR TRAINING AT HOME and be ready to train on arrival
Bringing and use of hand sanitizers is recommended and you should always have your own with you to use
Anyone with flu-like symptoms should NOT come to training
Don’t attend training if: – you have been close to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 – you have arrived from overseas in the past two weeks – you have visit any locations visited by a confirmed COVID-19 case for 14 days since you were last at the venue or location
At the Training Venue
Fencers are not to enter the venue before their allocated training time.
All fencers will need to sign in on their mobile phones by scanning the QR code in the venue and showing the UTS Sport staff member. This must be done EVERY session.
Filling out the club’s attendance register when you arrive and then when you leave the venue is mandatory.
On arrival, wash your hands and use hand sanitiser between bouts /lessons regularly.
Following the ‘Get in, train, get out’ principle for all sessions.
Strictly follow training times and leave the venue before the end of the training session
time so the venue can be cleaned for the next club booking. This
includes members getting changed (if needed) and all packing up.
Where possible, maintain social distance of 1.5m from one another.
If you must use the changeroom, please note it is limited to 10 people at SBHG. You are encouraged to change quickly and move out of the changerooms. Showers are NOT to be used at this stage.
Wipe common equipment (remotes, reel cable clips, box controls) between bouts with the sanitary wipes.
No sharing of equipment
There WILL BE NO BORROWING/USING OF CLUB’S EQUIPMENT (including fencing mask, jacket, breeches foil/epee/sabre, glove etc).
You must sanitise FENCING EQUIPMENT you are using
with sanitiser spray or wipes before and after you use it (wash your
uniform with sanitary wash, spray masks and gloves with antiseptic,
clean weapons and wires with antiseptic wipes)
It is your responsibility to have an effective sanitiser with you to clean your equipment
ONLY ATHLETES and Coaches are permitted in the Gym. All others, including parents and visitors must stay outside.
On Leaving the Training Venue
As soon as you have finished training/competing please leave SBHG.
Note on the Club Register of your departure time.
Wash your hands again.
At home please wash your clothing and sanitise equipment.
Online Pre-Registration for training session
Each week, the club will send out the registration information to our members and visitors. Please note all fencers participating in UTS Fencing’s training session will need to be registered for each session with the club beforehand, and to formally sign in and out at the training venue every session. All fencers will need to have current (2021) club membership and visitors’ status. Payment for 2021 UTS Club membership/visitor fee is paid via https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=713773&
Unfortunately, the club will have to turn away participants who do
not meet their club memberships/visitors’ obligations (they will not be
accepted in the training session registration process and will not be
able to sign in to train at the venue).
