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Club Event: Foil workshop – rules, practice and refereeing

Date: Saturday 29th April 2017

Time: 4pm -5pm.

Facilitator: Mr Edouard Renneville

Athlete Profile for Edouard can be found at http://utsfencing.com/news/athlete-profile/athlete-profile-edouard-renneville/

Description: The workshop aims to provide participants a better understanding of the rules of foil fencing, as well as the way the rules are interpreted and implemented in competitions.     

The UTS SBH Gym is not available over the Easter break (Saturday 15th April and Monday 17th April).

NOTE: the Gym is also unavailable due to a major event on the following Saturday (Saturday 22nd April).

A full list of modifications to training times is always available on the front page of the website.

Congratulations to UTS fencers for their terrific results thus far in the 2017 DH McKenzie AFC1 in Brisbane:

• Fantastic effort from Emily Principe in winning the 2017 AFC1  DH McKenzie Women’s Epee
• Congratulations to Edouard Renneville for 3rd place in Men’s Foil.
• Well done also to Andey for 1st place in Men’s Veteran foil, and Richard Purdie for 3rd place in the same event; as to Anna Ballard as well for her silver in Women’s Veteran Foil.
• And in the u23 Australian Championships a great result for Katherine Wang winning silver, and Karen Nonis winning bronze.

• Finally – thanks to our super coach Simon Jin who travelled to Brisbane for Team UTS 🙂

Good luck to the rest of our team in the remaining events!!

Congratulations to our medal winners for the their efforts in the foil and sabre club championships on the weekend,  as well as all the competitors who took part. Both events were fenced at a high level and in great spirit.

Results below:

UTS Foil Championships 2016 

Men

Gold: Edison Cai

Silver: Feng Yeng

Bronze: Derrick Roberts

Women

Gold: Julia Lyachenko

Silver: Annabelle Ballard

Bronze: Christina Bui

UTS Vice-Chancellors Sabre Cup 2016

Men

Gold: Edison Cai

Silver: Radu Vintila

Bronze: Alex Mei

Women

Gold: Amber Chen

Silver: Melissa Yeung

Bronze: Harriet Jordan

Hi Guys,

Don’t forget that the Club Foil and the Club Sabre Championships are on this weekend – dates and times below

 UTS Fencing Club Foil championship – Saturday 26th November (2:30 pm start)

 UTS Vice- Chancellor Sabre championship – Sunday 27^th November (3pm start)