A busy weekend! Saturday saw our AGM and Dinner which saw us return to the Oriental Club after a number of years. We were 18 in number and were joined by Hilary Philbin, President of British Fencing.
Pat Casey, Brian Hill and Steve Lennox were elected to the committee, with Lawrence Burr providing an update on the CIO
A small but perfectly formed group of fencers met at the Hurlingham Club to contest the Lefroy Cup; we were ably assisted by Andrew Brannon in his capacity as President.
The pool comprised of Philippe Barbasiewicz, Rob & Sue Brooks, guest Dave Hillier and myself. We had a number of Hurlingham members spectating at various points as well as Alex Brooks, Lizzie Stack and Verity Hillier.
I bring you an update on yesterday’s Epée Club Cup.
The Epée Club Cup was held yesterday at the Leon Paul Fencing Centre. Despite a large number of last-minute withdrawals we had a total of 34 of 36 fencers on the day.
This was the first year we have had prize money for the competition, thanks to the CIO, and after all 5 rounds of the initial pools were completed – 272 fights in all – and about a 5th of these (21%) were decided either by 1 hit or on time.
The top 4 fencers from each group were promoted through to Direct Elimination. Three of the promoted fencers were Club members – Greg Allen, Phil Barbasiewicz and Neal Mallett – with Greg losing a closely contested final to the winner, Will East.
e Epée Club Cup - Cash prizes
The Epée Club Cup – which is being held at the Leon Paul Fencing Centre on Saturday 9th June – has just announced that there will be cash prizes totalling £1000.00 for the winners in each of the following categories:
Overall Winner (£400), Runner-up (£200), Third Place (£100), Top Female (£100), Top Under-20 (£100) and Top Veteran (£100).There will also be non monetary prizes for the eight finalists with the winner holding The Epée Club Cup for the year.
