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The Asian Veteran/Master Fencing Championships were recently held in Hong Kong from 22nd to 25th August, where the Australian Team delivered an outstanding performance, finishing second overall in the medal tally with 7 Gold, 6 Silver, and 8 Bronze medals. UTS members and regular visitors played a significant role in this success. Congratulations to all!

Men’s Epee
CAT A
9th place: Eric Desjardins
CAT C
Bronze: Peter Busboom
9th place: Adam Reynolds

Women’s Epee
CAT B
Gold: Abby Nutt
Bronze: Melissa Yeung
15th place: Benita Ramage

Men’s Sabre
CAT B
Gold: Radu Vintila

Women’s Sabre
CAT B
Silver: Harriet Jordon
9th place: Melissa Yeung
CAT C
Gold: Min Yi Du

Women’s Foil
CAT A
5th place: Julia Lyaschenko
CAT C
12th place: Collen Stokes

Men’s Foil
CAT B
5th place: Andrey Tyschenko
CAT C
Silver: Adam Reynolds

Men’s Epee Team
6th place: Australia 1 (Peter Busboo, Eric Desjardins, Darren Ferguson, Jay Mackley)
10th place: Australia 2 (Ben Hallett, Paul Kurtyka, Nigel Nutt, Norbert Franz)

Women’s Foil Team
6th place: Australia (Julia Lyaschenko, Jenny Bonney-Millet, Colleen Stokes, Mara Chachs)

Men’s Foil Team
5th place: Australia 1 (Andrey Tyschchenko, Adam Reynolds, David Chachs)

Women’s Sabre Team
Bronze: Australia ( Min Yi Du, Melissa Yeung, Harriet Jordon, Sopru Coraine)

Women’s Epee Team
Gold: Australia 1 (Abby Nutt, Melissa Yeung, Jane Allardice, Catherine Syme)
5th place: Australia 2 (Benita Ramage, Sandra Schwarz, Coraine Sopru, Kylie Weatherald)

Congratulations to all our members who fenced in the first national competition of the year!

AFC#1

Senior Women’s Foil
15 LYASCHENKO Julia
24 CUI Shuran

Senior Men’s Sabre
14 VINTILA Radu
27 AU-YEUNG Dominic
30 KAN Brian

Mixed Veteran Foil
1 TYSHCHENKO Andrey
2 CALIXTE Aurelien
3T AITCHISON Phillip
5 PURDIE Richard
8 LYASCHENKO Julia
10 PRINCE Michael

Senior Men’s Foil
3T MOONEY GRAND Samuel
11 TYSHCHENKO Andrey
23 MURTOUGH-COOMBES Jack
31 CALIXTE Aurelien
43 HE Ethan
49 LI Jasper

Senior Women’s Sabre
8 YEUNG Melissa

Veteran Men’s Sabre
1 VINTILA Radu

Veteran Women’s Sabre
1 DU Min Yi
3T YEUNG Melissa

Dear members – sad news we’ve heard today.

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. 

Our thoughts are with her family. 

Peter Witkop Shield (3rd March 2024)

U14 Girls’ Foil
Silver: Shuran Cui
7th place: Chen Ru Jessica Zhao  

U14 Men’s Epee
8th place: William Huang   U10 Mixed Epee
6th place: Wesley Wang   U10 Boys’ Epee
5th place: Wesley Huang

Season Opener (25th Feb 2024)

Women’s Epee
Gold: Julia Falinska
5th place: Lisa Gemell

Men’s Epee
Bronze: Lachlan Fitzgerald
7th place: Peter Busboom
12th place: Nicholas Cargo
14th place: Jack Murtough-Coombes
19th place: Christopher Nonis

Men’s Foil
Silver: Andrey Tyshchenko
Bronze: Jack Murtough-Coombes
7th place: Ethan He
8th place: Jasper Li  

Women’s Foil
Bronze: Julia Lyaschenko  

Men’s Sabre
6th place: Brian Kan  

Vet Mixed Foil
Gold: Julia Lyaschenko
Bronze: Phillip Aitchison

Vet Men’s Epee
Gold: Peter Busboom
Bronze: Timothy Emmerick
7th place: Nonis Christopher

Sydney U12 Grand Prix (18th Feb 2024)

Boys Foil
14th place: Mathew He

2024 AYC#1 (3rd Feb 2024)

Girls Foil
9th place: Athena Feng
12th place: Shuran Cui

Girls Individual results: Athena Feng (3), Shuran (Apple) Cui (8)

Athena’s bronze medal finish was an outstanding result, and Apple fenced well also, making it through to the top eight in a strong field.

Girls Team results: (silver medal)

In the team event Athena and Apple were part the silver medal-winning team, so well done to both!

Boys Individual Result: Ethan He (10)

Well done also to Ethan He for a top 16 finish in a large and competitive field.

Great news on the club and individual levels:
The club was awarded the NSW Grand Prix Club Championship titles in the Open and the Veteran categories.

Julia Lyaschenko and Elena Qixuan Sun won the Grand Prix Champion titles in Veteran Women’s Foil and U/15 Women’s Epee, respectively.  

And big congratulations to Ted Elliot, awarded with the NSWFA’s Coach of the Year award

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

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Senior Women’s Foil
Gold: Alisa Tyshchenko
14th place:  Annabelle Ballard
21st place: Benita Ramage

Senior Men’s Sabre
Bronze: Joshua Roncolato
5th place: Yoongi Shim
12th place: Brian Kan
16th place:  Radu Vintila
21st place: George Foster

Veteran Women’s Sabre
Gold: Min Yi Du

Veteran Men’s Sabre
Gold: Radu Vintila
Silver: George Foster

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)

NSW State Open Championships (21st Nov 2021)

Men’s Sabre
Gold: Yoongi Shim
5th place: Joshua Roncolato

Women’s Epee
Silver: Amelie Awong
8th place: Qixuan (Elena) Sun
9th place: Benita Ramage

Men’s Epee
9th place: Duncan Fairweather
10th place: Adam Reynolds

Men’s Foil
5th place: Andrey Tyshchenko
10th place: Adam Reynolds

Women’s Foil
5th place: Alisa Tyschenko
7th place: Annabelle Ballard
10th place: Benita Ramage