Ending the Year on a High: Bronze for Collis at the World Ability Sport Games
World Ability Sport Games
Gemma Collis competed in the World Ability Sport Games in Thailand, which doubled as an IWAS World Cup. She reached the semi finals in both cat A women's epee and cat A women's sabre, and took home two bronze medals.
Final Placements:
Category A Women's Sabre
🥉 Gemma Collis
Category A Women's Epee
🥉 Gemma Collis
Elite Epee Finals
Three Salle Paul epeeists were invited to the Elite Epee grand finals in Oundle.
Kaeto Ngoka won four in her poule unique of eight. She defeated Marli Thompson in the last 8, then lost her semi final against Frankie Fowler. Xanthe Trim went won three and lost four in her poule. She won over Verena Chan in the round of 8, then was eliminated in the semi finals by Eliana Yunusi-Parikh. Solu Ngoka won six of seven poule bouts. He won against Ming Lok So and Lucas Farlam to reach the finals; his opponent Bintong Wang withdrew for medical reasons.
Congratulations to Kaeto and Xanthe for their bronze medals, and Solu for his gold medal.
Final placings:
U10 Girls Epee (8)
🥉Kaeto Ngoka
U12 Girls Epee (8)
🥉Xanthe Trim
U14 Boys Epee (8)
🥇Solu Ngoka
Cambridge Series
Three foilists competed in U14 boys. Tudor Prutica won five of six poule fights. He beat Stephen Wang, James Hernon, and Ron Law to make the semi finals where he was defeated, by Dominik Juras.
Congratulations to Tudor for his bronze medal. Thank you to Olga for her coaching at the event.
Final placings:
Cadet Men's Foil (24)
5. Oskar Picton-Tully
U14 Boys Foil (30)
🥉 Tudor Prutica
7. Arthur O'Donnell
8. Felix Berndorfer
LPJS Academy Sabre
Three fencers from the Leon Paul academy competed in the LPJS hosted by Paul Davis Fencing Academy.
Arthur Chen won eight matches out of ten across two rounds of poules. Two DE wins placed him in the semi finals, where he was eliminated by Bennett Joseph.
Matthew Yeremeyev won all nine of his poule matches. he received a bye through the 32, then won two DEs to reach the semi finals, where he was defeated by Edgar Aceves Bech.
Congratulations to Arthur and Matthew for their bronze medals. Thank you to Can for coaching at the competition.
Final placings:
U11 Boys Sabre (22)
🥉 Matthew Yeremeyev
🥉 Arthur Chen
9. Aaron Zhang
Leon Paul Junior Womens Epee
Three junior epeeists competed in the women's epee BRC at the Leon Paul centre on Sunday.
Zoya Suresh won eleven of twelve poule matches. Ranked first after poules, she received a bye through the first round of DEs. She then defeated Antonia Haynes, Maisie Everett, and Lauren Ryder Garcia to reach the final against Kseniya.
Kseniya Kushtan went eight and two in pools. She won her tableau matches against Annabelle Lavin, Grace O'Neill, Ellie Jackson, and Kate Haswell to make the finals against Zoya.
Kseniya emerged victorious in the finals, winning the match 15-9.
Congratulations to Zoya for her silver medal, and Kseniya for winning the competition. Thanks to Oana and Sam for coaching at the competition,
Final Placings:
Junior Women's Epee (27)
🥇 Kseniya Kushtan
🥈 Zoya Suresh
6. Juliet Lumineau
