2004 Australian Universities Championsips Results

Women’s Epee Individual: Silver to Tracey Green, 5th to Melissa Yeung
Women’s Foil Individual: Gold to Tracey Green, 4th to Melissa Yeung
Women’s Foil Teams: Gold to Tracey Green, Melissa Yeung and Nicole Lutze
Women’s Sabre Individual: Bronze to Tracey Green
Men’s Foil Teams: 7th to Michael Howard, Alex Hoyte, Deon Poncini and Stephen Wedlock
Men’s Sabre Individual: Bronze to James Fordham
Men’s Sabre Teams: Bronze to James Fordham, Michael Howard, Deon Poncini and Stephen Wedlock

UTS Fencers receive Union Blues

In an awards dinner held on 6 December, UTS Fencers Tracey Green and Michael Howard were two of only six people to be awarded with a Full Blue for their achievements in sport.

The Union Blue symbolises the highest level of sporting achievement that a student can win and is consequently highly sought after.

Tracey and Michael are part of a strong team that has gone to the Australian University Championships currently being held in Melbourne at Monash University.

Pan Pacific Masters Games 2004

A strong team of UTS Members competed in the Pan Pacific Masters on the Gold Coast November 12 – 14 and came home with a hoard of medals.

    Women’s 40+ Individual Sabre: Silver to Julie Seggie
    Women’s 40+ Team Sabre: Gold to Ann Burn and Julie Seggie
    Women’s 30+ Individual Sabre:Silver to Melissa Yeung
    Women’s 30+ Team Sabre:Gold to Melissa Yeung
    Men’s 30+ Individual Sabre: Gold to James Fordham, Silver to Michael Howard, Bronze to Dave Hoffman
    Men’s 30+ Team Sabre: Gold to Dave Hoffman, James Fordham and Michael Howard
    Women’s 40+ Individual Epee: Silver to Julie Seggie
    Women’s 30+ Individual Epee: Gold to Adele Haswell, Bronze to Julie Seggie
    Women’s 30+ Team Epee: Gold to Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie and Melissa Yeung
    Men’s 40+ Individual Epee: Bronze to Keith White
    Women’s 40+ Individual Foil: Silver to Julie Seggie
    Men’s 30+ Individual Foil: Gold to Steve Augoloupis
    Men’s 30+ Team Foil: Gold to Steve Augoloupis
    Italian Relay Teams Gold to Adele Haswell and Melissa Yeung

State Team Championships 2004

UTS teams have competed strongly at the State Team Championships winning 3 gold medals and 2 silver.

Men’s Epee: A UTS composite team captained by club member Peter Chicco won the Men’s Epee event on the 24th October.
Men’s Foil: With our 2 top fencers missing from the team due to injuries, the men’s foil team comprising Alex Carioti, Peter Chicco, Joe Slowiaczek and Ashley Yue lost a hard fought match by one hit to the winning team and ending up with the silver medal.
Women’s Epee: Also with 2 of our top fencers missing, Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie and Melissa Yeung lost by only 3 hits to Sydney University and placed 2nd.
Women’s Foil: The team of Tracey Green, Georgia Read, Anna Slowiaczek and Dione Vosper defended their title from last year to win the event.
Men’s Sabre: James Fordham, David Hoffman, Michael Howard and Michael Read also defended the title for UTS to win gold.

UTS Sabreurs dominate New Zealand National Championships

Three UTS Club Members took a trip to New Zealand for their recent National Championships and dominated the competition in the individual and team events as you can see by the results below:

Men’s Sabre Individual: Gold to James Fordham, Silver to Michael Howard and 5th to Michael Read.
Men’s Sabre Teams: Gold to the NSW (UTS) Team comprising the above three fencers.

UTS Fencers at NZ Championships 2004

UTS Fencers at NZ Championships 2004

UTS fencers compete in Novice State Championships

UTS has added another State title to their collection with Charles Carroll winning the Novice State Championships on October 10th. This is Charles’ second Novice competition victory.

Also competing from UTS where Ian Bryant, David Longfield and Long Nguyen who ended up 9th, 10th and 17th respectively.

UTS Fencing Club wins Foil and Sabre Club of the Year

Australian Fencing Federation awards UTS with Foil and Sabre Club of the Year.

The awards topped off a very successful National Championships for the club as can be seen by the results below:

    Men’s Foil Individual: Gold to Frank Bartolillo and 6th to Steve Augoloupis
    Women’s Sabre Individual: 6th to Melissa Yeung
    Women’s Sabre Teams: Silver to Melissa Yeung
    Men’s Foil Teams: Gold to Frank Bartolillo and Steve Augoloupis
    Women’s Epee Individual: Bronze to Adele Haswell
    Women’s Epee Teams: Silver to Adele Haswell
    Men’s Sabre Individual: Silver to James Fordham, Bronze to Michael Howard, 6th to Keiran Thompson, 7th to Dave Hoffman, 8th to Michael Read
    Women’s Foil Individual: Bronze to Tracey Green
    Women’s Foil Teams: Gold to Tracey Green and Georgia Read
    Men’s Sabre Teams: Silver to James Fordham, Michael Howard and Keiran Thompson
    Women’s Veteran Foil Individual: Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
    Men’s Veteran Foil Individual: 5th to Volker Hrovat and 6th to Peter Witkop
    Women’s Veteran Epee Individual: Gold to Julie Seggie and Silver to Anna Slowiaczek
    Men’s Veteran Epee Individual: Bronze to Volker Hrovat and 8th to Duncan Fairweather
    Women’s Veteran Sabre Individual: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek

National Championships 2004

UTS fencers have excelled so far at the Australian National Championships winning 2 golds, 2 silver and 1 bronze so far.

Frank Bartolillo won the Individual Men’s Foil for a record equalling 6th time, with Steve Augoloupis finishing in 6th position. They then were both selected in the NSW team that went on to win the Men’s Foil Team Event.

Melissa Yeung also made the final of the Women’s Sabre event ending up 6th and was included on the team that came away with the silver medal.

In Women’s Epee, Adele Haswell won the bronze medal in the individual event and the silver in the team event.

We have 4 strong hopes for the Men’s Sabre event as well as a couple in the Women’s Foil which are both being held tomorrow.

For full results information please visit the Australian Fencing Events website.

World Veteran Championships 2004

Volker Hrovat represented Australia at the World Veteran Championships in Krems, Austria, in September. The number of competitors was buoyed by the European location with a 100% increase from last year?s event. With a high standard of fencers competing, Volker excelled in both foil and epee. In Men’s Epee he was placed 11th and in Foil 14th.

NSW State Sabre Championships 2004

UTS has finished with 5 out of 6 State Titles after the State Sabre Championships on September 5th.

Mens State Open Sabre Championships – 1st James Fordham, 2nd Keiran Thompson, 3rd David Hoffman and Michael Howard
Women’s State Open Sabre Championships – 1st Melissa Yeung