CASEY JONES WINS YOUTH SERIES
WORLD VETERANS FENCING CHAMPIONSHIPS, CAIRO
Salle Paul and Leon Paul Epee had five fencers in four categories competing in the Veteran World Championships last week. Hugh Kernohan ranked 1st seed after poules and made an amazing result to finish 5th in Cat B Men's Epee! Other great results by:
Cat A Men's Foil: Gerry Brosnan (48th)
Cat C Mens' Foil: Graham Paul, who finished 10th (Cat C Men's Foil) despite spending most of the year recovering from an injury.
Cat A Men's Epee: Jeremy Baker (27th) and Simon Pink (32nd) both made the top 32 in the largest competition at the Vets World Champs.
In the epee team, led by Graham Paul and including Hugh Kernohan and Simon Pink, Great Britain beat Japan and narrowly lost to Germany in the poule. This set them on track to face the top seed, Italy, in the last 8. It was a tough match where GBR were chasing to catch up points, finishing the competition in 7th place.
BRITISH U23 CHAMPIONSHIPS
The men's competition was on Saturday, which saw three Salle Paul fencers compete. Oliver Strange fenced excellently, smashing his opponent Jamie Cook 15-6 on his route to a top 8 finish. Alex Culkin finished 29th and Ali Al-Mohsin finished 72nd after facing a poule of death with multiple podium contenders. On Sunday Ruby Roberts came 31st, winning her last 64 15-13 in a hard fought match. (results here)
YOUTH SERIES
Sameer Sunder-rajan won gold and Casey Jones took bronze! This makes Casey this season's winner with Sameer in second place! In the girl's event, Lauren Ryder-Garcia who won gold in the girl's epee event and was also the season winner!
KOLA AYANWALE BECOMES FIE REFEREE
Congratulations to Kola who travelled to Germany and passed the exam to become an FIE epee referee! He is now qualified to referee at Satellites and World Cups.
