Monthly archive for October 2004

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 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.

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

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.