FENCERS NEWS SEPTEMBER 2001

Message to all fencers
on the new season

 

Essex Open results

Keith Smith Visits the Eastern Region Committee meeting

For points discussed 

 

 

  

FENCERS NEWS AUGUST 2001

 

 

 

 

FENCERS NEWS JULY 2001

Chairmans  Season Round up Letter    

 

 

 

 

FENCERS NEWS JUNE 2001

Read Cup report still to be done sorry    

 

 

 

 

 

FENCERS NEWS May 2001

Well done all the Essex clubs - Essex ended Up Top County with 1211 points
with Chelmsford take the top prize by winning The Anita Bales Cup

The Anita Bales Cup is awarded to the most successful club in the Eastern Region over the whole season

Chelmsford & Anglia Polytechnic University Fencing Club clinched on Sunday the Anita Bales Cup by finishing 3rd in the Eastern Team Epee and 2nd in the Team Sabre.

Chelmsford Ended the season as Champions with 497 points
beating the Cambridge Cadets ( 420 points )
Salle Rose in third. ( 364 points )
Brentwood 6th (171 points)
CAds 8th ( 147 points )
Newham 9th ( 143 points )
Southend 10th ( 133 points )

Well done all the Essex clubs - Essex ended Up top County with 1211 points

The results that counted for Chelmsford were:

Eastern Region Individual: Foil Men:  Richard Sims 3rd 
  Ladies Jackie Skelton 7th
Epee Men: Richard Sims 8th
  Ladies : Jane Harding 3rd;
Jackie Skelton 6th
Sabre Men:  Richard Sims 1st;
Chris Sullivan3rd;
Don Cook 3rd;
Nigel Newport 5th
  Ladies: Jackie Skelton 3rd
Team Epee   3rd
Adam Mclean, Richard Sims, DonCook

7th Trevor Richards, Rob Coleman, Simon Tippler

Team Sabre:   2nd Chris Sullivan, Lesley Clark,
> Dave Bird

The results The Excaliber Results

 

FENCERS NEWS APRIL 2001

 

Essex County Team Foil

Full Results

 

This Seasons
Brentwood Youth Competition
has been cancelled

 

Champion team - Cyrano A - Runners up Chelmsford A
Third - Cyrano B and Newham A

Plate winners Highams Park A

Southend Juniors Celebrate thier Grade one awards

Southend Juniors Celebrate after getting their Grade One

 

 

FENCERS NEWS March 2001

 

Intermediate Foil Full results
Winners Chris Mckenzie and Georgina Osborne
Runners up Peter Brackin and Christine Brackin
Third places the Blythe Brothers - Tracey Coates and Jane Hardy

 

FENCERS NEWS February 2001

Results from the Foil Youth Championships on 16th and 17th February at Brentwood

Essex Team Epee Results on 18/02/01

Epee Training 25/02/01 at Colchester Make sure you enter - limited numbers

Epee Training day  Report

Epee training - Pictures & Report

 

 

FENCERS NEWS January 2001

 

Results from Cambridge another good day for Southend, Cyrano and activ8

Prof Bob Bales is still running Sunday Training courses -

The Eastern Region Individual Results

FENCERS NEWS DECEMBER 2000

 

Eastern Region
Youth Championships
RESULTS
Sunday 10th December 2000
The Courage Hall, Brentwood School, Brentwood, Essex

Eastern Region Qualifiers

Eleanor Hills

It is with heartfelt sadness that we have just found out that Eleanor Hills died on 22nd December in Rayleigh
Eleanor was only 18 and an exceptionally bright girl with a wonderful future in front of her

We at Southend all have many fond memories

Eleanor loved fencing Sabre and spent many hours helping to teach the youngsters at Southend Fencing Club .She had only stopped fencing in 1999 to concentrate on getting her A levels and her University Place


May we send our thoughts to Eleanor's family and many friends at this most distressing time

From all your heartbroken friends at Southend Fencing Club
Roy, Peter, Stephen,Christine, Jan , Brian, Bob, Sheila, Jennifer and Alan.

Point in Lines

If you have anything for inclusion in our journal please let Lyndon have it soon - Anything for inclusion in The Sword under Region's Roundup should also be sent to Lyndon-
if
possible by Email

* Point in Lines is the County’s newsletter that every BFA registered club receives free.

Subject: Chelmsford Fencing Club Christmas Dinner
Hi everyone, It's getting to that time of year again...Christmas
, therefore we're having the Chelmsford Fencing Club Christmas ( a naughty word CENSORED ) up.
It's on the Saturday 16th December at the Crown in Sandon (the same place as last year)
hope you can make it, the tickets are £20.00 for Students and £22.50 for those of you
who have to work and as always it's black tie, bring your mates, preferably female and very attractive!!

Cheers - Chris Sullivan

FENCERS NEWS NOVEMBER 2000

 


Lyndon's message

Matt Sellick , Sandra Dawson and Chris Sullivan Essex Champions
report and results

Welcome back to Loughton Fencing now up and running again

Prof Bob Bales is running Sunday Training courses -

Essex's Eastern Region Page has be revamped
and includes details on the Region competitions and Newsletter

Eastern Region Newsletter
Page 1 - Changes at the Top /Fencing enters the e-world
Page 2 Junior News -
Page 3 Competition News
Page 4 Club & County News
Page 5 Region Officers and Committee Members

Region's Youth Championships 10th December 2000
Information on Youth Championships
Entry Form

Region Individual Chammpionships 6 & 7th January 2001
Information
Entry Form and Details
how to find it

Wickford Fencing Club are TV stars
If you have Telewest Cable you can see the club in action from 6th November on Channel 54
See More pictures on Club site

Essex Epee Competition is this month

Entry form for Epee & Sabre on 26/11/00

The dates for the British Youth Championships have been announced
U12 & U14 - Foil in the South West on 19/20th May 2001,
U16 & U18 Foil at Brentwood on 17/18th February 2001,
Epee & Sabre -Scotland West on February 25/26th 2001
 


News

FENCERS NEWS OCTOBER 2000

 

Essex Foil results from 29/10/00
Congratulations

Ben, Luke and Jonathon Junior Boys Champions
Rebecca. Sara and Clare Junior Girls Champions
Junior Results

Christine and Richard are Senior Champions
full Senior results

James Beevers continues his winning ways and wins the Leeds Royal Armouries Challenge See Results
Earlier this year CADS made a application to Awards For All for a Millennium Lottery Award.to help develop Epee at the CADS club and in the County

We are now pleased to announce that the application has been successful
and express our grateful thanks to Awards For All
And can advise Fencers of the planned use of the award.

Recently Heard that Loughton Evening Class has closed down

Hornchurch Fencing Club have moved

Eastern Region are arranging to take a group of Junior fencers to a Competition in Dieppe. on the weekend of 25th March 2001 The competition will be for foil only for U10, U12 and U14 age groups
For more details

New Seasons Fencing calandar Confirmed and Issued
The British Museum will be hosting an exhibition entitled Gladiators & Caesars, 21 October 2000 - 21 January 2001, which will exhibit the real armour and weapons as worn by gladiators in ancient Rome

Alison Maw, Marketing & Research Officer, The British Museum

 

 

FENCERS NEWS SEPTEMBER 2000

 

THE OLYMPIC MONTH

Kate Allenby and Stephanie Cook  Pentathlon WinnersStephanie Cook (Gold) and Kate Allenby (Bronze) medal winners in the Pentathlon In fencing Kate got 14 Victories , Stephanie 10 victories both out of 23 bouts

Both Medalist had fenced earlier in the Month at the Essex Open
Stephanie finishing 11th and Kate Finishing 3rd

Olympic Update 20/09/00

After defeating Marco Martins 15-7 in the first round James is beaten 15-1 in the second round (Last 32)
( at one stage James was 14-0 down ) by
Sergei Golubitsky
from the Ukraine the Fourth Seed and the pre - tournament favourite

It was obvious that James would have needed to perform way way
beyond his world ranking to get anywhere near him The olympic site said about Segei -
Although seeded only No.4, based on recent World Cup rankings, Sergiy GOLUBYTSKY (UKR) is the most favoured. He won the last three World Championship titles
See the results http://www.fencing.net/news/2000OlympicsMF.html

The Olympics Schedule

ESSEX OPEN RESULTS

See Last Season In pictures


Tuesday, 28 September 1999

To: Members of the Youth Committee, Organisers of Registered Events, Acting
Chairman of the Board, Chairman International Committee, Gillian Kenneally,
British Youth Championships circulation list, Chairs of Regions and Sections,
Chairs of Home Countries, Editor of the Sword, Ruth Crawford (Scottish
Fencing)

Dear Colleague,..................Accordingly with effect from January 1st 2000 it will be forbidden for youngsters under the age of 13 to compete in any event open to fencers over 18. The datum line will be 1st January in the season concerned. This applies to all County, Regional and National Events run by British Fencing, or under their auspicious, and all registered events. It should be noted that this applies to all events run at Regional or County Level.
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It is accepted within the UK that the Season runs from 1st September to 31st August.  Hence for youngsters to fence in the forthcoming season they will have to be 13 years of age on January 2001.   I would like to thank all of you who have pointed out to me that it could be possible to interpret the ruling differently, but as far as I can see the only real question is what is the season?  I think it is generally accepted within the UK, and this is a UK ruling, that the season runs from September to September.  This was a Board decision and cannot be changed, except by the Board or an EGM.  The next Board Meeting is Sept. 30th, so even if there was a general wish to change the rule it could not come into effect till September 2001. Accordingly no British Fencing event, or Registered Event, may permit children born later than 1987 (if my maths is right!) to fence in any event involving fencers O18 in the forthcoming season, starting Sept. 1st 2000.At the moment British Fencing can insist that events follow our safety rules, the U13 rule is regarded as a safety rule, and the general rules for competitions; but if an individual organiser of a registered event wishes to impose a higher age limit then they are within their rights.

As you can see the letter was sent to a large circulation list, including the Editor of the Sword.  Someone has searched an old edition of the Sword and found that the statement in the Sword misses the crucial phrase "the datum line will be 1st January in the season concerned", but the above ruling is the one in force.

I hope the above clears up any misconceptions, any further questions — please
contact me directly, thanks.

John Ramsay

FENCERS NEWS AUGUST 2000

 

CADS 25th ANNIVERSARY BARBEQUE  
AT HIGHWOODS SPORTS AND LEISURE CENTRE COLCHESTER

19th AUGUST
STARTS 8.00 PM TICKETS £5.00 (TO COVER FOOD)
ON SITE BAR
BOUNCY CASTLE FOR THE CHILDREN      

  It is CADS 25th anniversary this year. The club is holding a barbeque on Saturday 19th August at Highwoods Sports and Leisure Centre (well most people know where this is!)

Anyone interested please give Lyndon a ring or email - the club are using an outside caterer and they will need to have a rough idea of numbers.  


Chairman's Remarks

We have held many successful events in Essex this season , with the Essex County Competitions going from strength to strength with high attendances, lots of very favourable feedback and many new faces at the events

The season has given Essex a number of honours
- UK Foil Champion, Intermediate Foil Champion, Champions in all three Eastern Region Men's weapons, six regional Junior Champions and lots of potential coming through in Medal places.

My congratulations to the County fencers for their fine performances at the Millenium Championships and to everyone that fences in Essex and have competed in the many competitions held over the season. You have all been a credit to Essex and its with your support at these events that make the efforts of the Essex County Fencing Union committee worthwhile.

Look forward to starting of another successful season at the Essex Open in September

The Season Ends on a high note with everyone looking forward to an Essex Fencer fencing for GB in the Olympic Games - Fence Your Best - James  

.Lyndon N Taylor Chairman ECFU

 

FENCERS NEWS JULY 2000

 

Peter from Southend finishes second in the Cambridge Open Air Epee

See Results

 

 

FENCERS NEWS JUNE 2000

 

James Does it Again and wins the Millenium Foil Championships
see all the individual results

Essex end up second in Read Cup

Southend Fencing Club moves home
New location Deanes School Thundersley

Simon Laight named Male Sportsman of the Year by the Colchester Sports Council

 

 

 

 

 

FENCERS NEWS May 2000

 

Essex Team Complete in Excaliber and Finish 7th
Best performance was Anna Crofts in Foil 26 victories out of 33
Essex scores

Essex Teams do well at Eastern region Team competition

Essex are going Down under

Info from the BFA site -
James Beevers who came 2nd in the European zone Qualifying competition in Budapest 1st May has now met the qualification criteria for the 2000 Sydney Olympic games in September

The Beevers family are no strangers to top international competition: James' father Martin was a GB international and took part in the Montreal Olympics at men's epee.

Final Olympic selection is subject to BOA ratification following BFA recommendation

Looking at the Schedule he will start on Wednesday 20th September - Tickets $45

James Qualifies for the Sydney Olympics

The Olympics Schedule

 

 

APRIL 2000

The Intermediate Foil National Championship held in Maidstone on Saturday 29 th April again shows up the strength of fencing in Essex

Richard Simms wins the competition , Andrew Docherty comes 5th and Martin Cotts comes 10th. In the ladies Joanne Reynolds is 5th and Christine Brackin is 8th

George Cullen.

It is with deep regret that we have been advised by Pamela of the untimely death of George at the age of 64 in Bombay on 11th April

George was an active member of Essex County Fencing Union Committee and was a guiding light in the way he was always striving to promote fencing.

He will be missed by his many friends in Essex and the fencing community as a whole.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to Pamela and the family

The funeral was held on Thursday 20th April 2.15pm at All Saints Church, Dovercourt Harwich Chas Read and Lyndon Taylor represented Essex Fencing  

Essex Team Epee

Favourites Team Extreme do it again as Chelmsford just miss out on gold
But the South of the county battle back with a joint Estuary/Southend team and a Wickford taking Bronze Medals
And Brentwood Old boys narrowly knocked out of the main Competition win the plate in a closely fought Final

See all the results See the Results of the Team Epee

See Katie's and Joanne's Results from the Ispwich Women's Epee

Happy 18th Birthday Jackie

Surrey Challenge
Mariette, Mike Staines and John Hayes ask
Anyone seen the rest of the team ?
But still manage to come 7th (out of seven)

 

March 2000

See the latest Press Release on Simon at Glasgow

Eastern Region Intermediate qualifier

Three Essex fencers qualify to the Intermediate Nationals at Maidstone
15 Essex Fencers enter this year ( we lead the way with over half the entries from Essex)
Richard Wins Again - this time it's the Intermediate qualifier
Christine Brackin and Martin Cott add to the Essex medal tally and qualify to the nationals at Maidstone next month
See the results

Essex Inter club Held at Chelmsford on Saturday 04/03/00
Friendly Foil Match between Chelmsford/ Cambridge and Essex Uni
Best News - Hazel competes again and leads the Chelmsford team to victory
SEE Results

 

FEBRUARY 2000

Essex County Team Foil
Held on Sunday 20/02/00 at Chelmsford
42 Essex Fencers compete
with CADS "A" winning with Chris, Francis and Mark beating the CAPU "A" Team

SEE RESULTS

 

 

JANUARY 2000

Eastern Region Championships
Well Done to all the Essex Fencers
Highlights - Richard, Simon and Oliver make it a clean sweep for the
Men of Essex
All make it to Champions
Sandra ( 2nd) and Jackie (3rd ) just miss out for the ladies
Chelmsford get both Mens and Ladies Champion of Arms
Well Done Jackie and Richard

See DE sheets and the Results

There is a new FIE ruling regarding Electric boxes and the lights
- From now on the box lights are to be switched over so that the lights/hits are shown on the same side as the fencer scoring the hit.

 

DECEMBER 1999

The Epee and Sabre Essex County Competition was held at Chelmsford on Sunday the 12th-

There were 22 fencing Epee and 11 fencing Sabre
Champions were Chris Sullivan for Sabre and Simon Laight and Sandra Dawson for Epee
See the results

Well Done to all those that took part in their first competition
Peter, David and Lief - all from Wickford

Eastern Region National Junior Qualifier

Results of Eastern Region Youth Championship

Essex managed to enter 40 Fencers in this competition

With 11 fencers taking part from Newham.for the first time and managing to collect
Silvers Medals for Hollie and Jason and Bronze Medals for Aimee and Duncan

 

 

NOVEMBER 1999

Results from the Estuary Novice Competition
Estuary Fencing Page

See the results for all Essex fencers in the County Foil Competition
Well Done Richard and Joanne

and all the Juniors Especially Sara, James, Harold, and Joe

The Essex County result page

 

There is now a new BFA ruling relating to Juniors competing in the Adult Competitions . In future any youngster under the age of 13, at the 1st of January of the year of the competition, will not be allowed to compete in an event open to fencers over 18.

 

 

 

FENCERS NEWS September '99

Essex Open

See the results for all of the 370 fencers

from over a hundred different Clubs that came to Essex

Results

 

FENCERS NEWS JULY 99

Norfolk Open

Sandra Comes Third in Epee

For Results of the 17 Essex Fencers taking part

More Congratulations as James wins

James wins the British Men's Foil Championships at Milton Keynes.

See Full Results

British Women's Foil Championships

See Full results

Well done to all the Cyrano Fencers

Congratulations

Simon- who gets married this month- wins the Cambridge Epee

See the Results ( of the fencing that is)

Cambridge

Mariette and Jane Fence at Cambridge Foil See Results

Southend Promote Fencing

For the second year running , Southend Fencing Club were able to put on a display of fencing at Thorpe Hall School Summer Fayre. On a very hot and Sunny Sunday afternoon many youngsters were able to try their hand at Fencing for the first time. Thanks to all the Fencers that gave up their Sunday afternoon to fence alfresco.

 

 

FENCERS NEWS JUNE 99

Essex win the Read Cup
In total 49 Fencers took part this year with the 17 strong Essex Fencing Team winning the Cup by beating Cambridgeshire (2nd) and Norfolk (3rd)

Read Cup Full Result UPDATE

The Final results from the Brentwood Youth are here on this website

See where every one of the 128 fencers finished Full Brentwood Youth Results

For Essex's 23 Junior fencers
- Well done to Robert, Edwin, Jacquelyn and Jonathon
and to the five semi-finalist -Katie, Abigail, Jennifer, Sarah and Janine

Wickford Fencing Club put on a Display at Basildon Sports Council Award Ceremony and four Wickford Fencers are re-presented with their Medals - Mariette, Jennifer, Cecily and Francis   Essex Open entries continue to arrive

 

FENCERS NEWS MAY 99

 

DOUBLE BRONZE FOR ESSEX GIRLS

Essex County Junior Fencers end May with sucess at the Brentwood Youth competition on 30/05/99

Well Done to Janine and Jennifer for adding to the season's medal tally for Essex County by both winning Bronze Medals in the U15 Girls Foil competition, both being beaten in the Semi Finals.

Full Report and Results to come.

Mariette Wins the INTERMEDIATE foil at Manchester   Essex Open entries continue to arrive
Excaliber Essex Team comes in 5th

5 New Fencers Capped to Fence for Essex

  Cecily,Janine and Jennifer represent the Eastern Region at the British Youth Championships at Chester
     

 

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