Overall results for the club:
Our congratulations to the these fencers who have been selected to represent Australia at the Cadet and Junior World Championships to be held in Korea in April.
Congratulations also the UTS club coaches of these fencers, Jeff Gray and Alwyn Wardle.
Alwyn Wardle is the coach of both the current Senior and Junior Commonwealth Champions. Well done Al !
They started in Luxembourg where they both made the top 32 in the Foil event, with Joe placed 28th and Alex 31st. Joe also competed in the Epee event where he placed 16th. They then moved on to Spain where Alex made the top 32, placing 29th and Joe came an awesome 3rd!
With the World Cup points that they picked up on the tour, Joe is now ranked 36th and Alex 152nd in the World for Junior Foil and in the Epee Joe is ranked 153rd.
Both of these young fencers will be representing Australia at the Commonwealth Junior Championships to be held in India in January next year.
Of special note is that UTSFC members made up 4 out of 8 of the Men’s Foilist finalists and 3 out of the top 4 with a UTSFC member involved in taking out every gold medal available in Men’s Open Foil.
In total the medal haul was 6 National gold, 5 Oceania gold, 6 Silver, 7 Bronze
Women’s Open Sabre – 1st Min Yi Du (Australian and Oceania Champion), 7th Melissa Yeung, 8th Alex Andre
Women’s Open Sabre Teams – 2nd NSW A Team with Min Yi Du, 3rd NSW B Team with Melissa Yeung and Alex Andre
Women’s Veteran Sabre – 1st Anna Slowiaczek, 3rd Julie Seggie
Men’s Open Sabre Teams – 2nd NSW A Team with Frederic Jaccard and Michael Howard, 3rd NSW B Team with Keiran Thompson
Men’s Oceania Sabre Teams – 1st Australia with Michael Howard
Men’s Open Foil – 1st Frank Bartolillo, 2nd Steve Augoloupis, 3rd Joe Slowiaczek, 8th Alex Carioti
Men’s Open Foil Teams – 1st NSW A Team with Frank Bartolillo, Joe Slowiaczek and Steve Augoloupis
Men’s Oceania Foil Teams – 1st Australia with Frank Bartolillo and Joe Slowiaczek
Men’s Veteran Foil – 5th Rowan Turner, 8th Peter Witkop
Women’s Open Foil – 5th Dione Vosper (Oceania Champion)
Women’s Open Foil Teams – 1st NSW A Team with Dione Vosper and Karin Wang
Women’s Veteran Foil – 2nd Anna Slowiaczek, 3rd Julie Seggie
Men’s Open Epee – 5th Joe Slowiaczek
Men’s Open Epee Teams – 2nd NSW A Team with Joe Slowiaczek
Men’s Veteran Epee – 5th Duncan Fairweather, 7th Myles Wilmott, 8th Peter Witkop
Women’s Open Epee – 3rd Adele Haswell
Women’s Open Epee Teams – 3rd NSW A Team with Adele Haswell and Julie Seggie
Women’s Veteran Epee – 1st Julie Seggie, 2nd Anna Slowiaczek
David Donato followed on from winning the trophy for Best Boy Senior Division A at the Schools League Grand Final, with a 3rd place in the Men’s Foil and 9th in the Men’s Epee. Teneille Murray placed 8th in the Women’s Sabre and 13th in the Women’s Foil.
In total the medal haul was 5 gold, 4 Silver, 6 Bronze with sisters Dione Vosper and Adele Haswell regaining the titles they won last year with Dione almost making it a double when she met Adele in the Women’s Epee Gold Medal bout.
Allyson Schofield Men’s Sabre
Allyson Schofield Women’s Sabre
