Best wishes to all our fencers going off to compete at Largs, Scotland.
UTS fencers selected for the Games are:
Andrey Tyshchenko – Men’s Foil
Attila Brungs – Men’s Sabre
Richard Purdie – Men’s Foil, Men’s Epee
UTS Fencing has a pretty good year in the 2014 state championships series, netting an overall medal count of 19 ( 5 Gold, 6 Silver and 8 Bronze medals ), well done UTS Fencing. The results from the most recent state championships events are as below:
2014 NSW State Open Championships
Open Men’s Foil (26th Oct)
Bronze: Andrey Tyshchenko
12th place: Rowan Turner
Open Women’s Foil (26th Oct)
8th place: Joyce Zhu
9th place: Julia Lyaschenko
Open Men’s Epee (26th Oct)
Bronze: Lachlan Fitzgerald
6th place: Kelly Durant
7th place: Daniel West
12th place: Reagan Clarke
14th place: Oscar Hargreaves
Open Women’s Epee (26th Oct)
Silver: Elizabeth Duff
5th place: Melissa Yeung
6th place: Emily Principe
10th place: Karen Nonis
Open Men’s Sabre (26th Oct)
16th place: Attila Brungs
2014 NSW Team Championships
Men’s Foil Teams (19th Oct)
Silver: UTS A
6th place: UTS B
Women’s Foil Teams (19th Oct)
5th place: UTS A
7th place: UTS B
Men’s Epee Teams (12th Oct)
Bronze: UTS A
5th place: UTS B
Women’s Epee Teams (12th Oct)
Silver: UTS
2014 NSW State Veteran Championships
Veteran Men’s Foil (2nd Nov)
Gold: Andrey Tyshchenko
Silver: Michael Prince
Bronze: Rowan Turner
Veteran Men’s Epee (2nd Nov)
Gold: Andrey Tyshchenko
Bronze: Rowan Turner
Veteran Men’s Sabre (2nd Nov)
Bronze: Attila Brungs
2014 Cadet (U/17) Sydney Olympic Cup
Women’s Epee (26th Oct)
Gold: Emily Principe
Silver: Elizabeth Duff
4th place: Karen Nonis
Men’s Foil (26th Oct)
Silver : Adam Chew
Women’s Foil (26th Oct)
6th place: Joyce Zhu
UTS Team did a fantastic job at AUGs this year, and the team came away with 3 Silver medals (Men’s Team Epee, Women’s Team Sabre, Women’s Novice Foil ) and 2 Bronze medals (Men’s Novice Foil, Women’s Sabre).
Anna and Julie fenced very competitively against some of the most skilled fencers in the world at the Veteran World Championships. Congratulations on your fantastic performance.
Congratulations to the Women’s Epee Team for silver, and the Men’s Foil Team for bronze, as well as Julie’s gold medal in Veteran Women’s Epee Andrey’s bronze medal in the Veteran Men’s Foil.
Congratulations to the follow UTS fencers and staff on their selection to the Australian Teams
World Veterans Championships (Debrecen, Hungary, 21-26 October)
Sarah Osvath – Epee
Julie Seggie – Epee
Annabelle Slowiaczek – Foil
Commonwealth Veterans Championships (November 16-19, Largs, Scotland)
Attila Brungs – Sabre
Richard Purdie – Foil
Andrey Tyshchenko – Foil
Brian McCowage (24th August 2014)
Men’s Open Foil
7th place: Philip Aitchison
Veteran Mixed Foil
Gold: Philip Aitchison
Men’s Open Foil
7th place: Philip Aitchison
Veteran Mixed Foil
Gold: Philip Aitchison
Gilt Series (24th August 2014)
Men’s Open Epee
7th place: Lachlan Fitzgerald
8th place: Daniel West
9th place: Reagan Clarke
Women’s Open Epee
3rd place: Elizabeth Duff
6th place: Julie Seggie
Veteran Mixed Epee
Silver: Duncan Fairweather
President’s Cup 2014 (10th August 2014)
Men’s Open Foil
Bronze: Andrey Tyshchenko
13th place: Tan Nguyen
Men’s Veteran Foil
Gold: Philip Aitchison
Silver: Andrey Tyschchenko
Under 23 State Championships
Men’s Epee(27th July 2014)
Gold: Lachlan Fitzgerald
5th place: Daniel West
Women’s Epee (27th July 2014)
Bronze: Elizabeth Duff
Bronze: Emily Principe
Well done to Emily and Lizzy for their efforts at the 2014 Cadet National Championships
UTS Fencing Scholarship
Congratulations to Lachlan Fitzgerald who was awarded the 2014 UTS Fencing Scholarship. Lachlan is enrolled in the prestigious UTS Bachelor of Accounting program – a cooperative education scholarship program – at the UTS School of Business. Lachlan has also been awarded a sporting scholarship by UTS Union Ltd (ActivateUTS)
