Epee Weekend Roundup
As the year draws to an end, weekends are getting quieter in terms of results. Salle Paul’s results from the past weekend are detailed below.
Elite Epee Grand Finals
Salle Paul qualified four fencers for the finals of the Elite Epee Series, which took place in Peterbourough: Beatrice Marra, Solu Ngoka, Hal Jones, and Rachael Lever. We're pleased to say that each fencer came away winning a medal.
Congratulations to Beatrice and Hal for their bronze medals, Rachael for her silver medal, and Solu for being the 2022 Elite Epee champion.
Senior Women's Epee (8): Rachael 2nd
U12 Boys' Epee (8): Solu 1st
Senior Men's Epee (8): Hal 3rd
U12 Girls' Epee (7): Beatrice: 3rd
Le Havre Veterans Epee
This weekend Simon Pink, Pete Eames and Etienne de Burgh travelled to Le Havre to fence in a French Veterans National Circuit epee competition.
Simon and Etienne needed to fence in the qualifying event on Saturday, where they both performed well in their pools, Simon 5v1d and Etienne 3v3d, automatically qualifying for the following day, Simon being ranked 4th out of 61. Tougher pools on Sunday saw Etienne with 3v3d again, but Simon 1v5d. Simon won his first fight easily, then in the L64 narrowly lost 10/8 to Le Treut of France who went on to win the event. Etienne had a bye to the L64 where he was defeated 10/6 by Walle of France.
In age group V3 Pete was 5v1d in his pool, ranking him 12th, but then lost a see-saw fight in the L64 which placed him 33rd.
Vets-2 Men's Epee (84): Etienne 42nd, Simon 57th
Vets-3 Men's Epee (76): Pete 33rd
Leon Paul Junior Women’s Epee BRC
Emma Mitzova was the only Salle Paul fencer to enter the junior BRC at the Leon Paul centre on Sunday. She was unfortunately defeated by Poppy Chennells of Newcastle in her first elimination match.
Senior Women's Epee (34): Emma 24th
Vancouver World Cup
Associate Salle Paul member Elliott Grover qualified for the epee World Cup in Vancouver. Three victories and two losses saw him through to the tableau. He then won his L128, before being defeated by Ma of Korea in the L96.
Final placement:
Senior Men's Epee (188): Elliott 82nd
