Reading Fencing clubs is always active with competitions against ourseleves and other clubs in the region.
The December club competition results are in with Rob Maclennon winning the adults competition. Full results here.
Well done to our teams who competed in the national champ's. The ladies team (Verity Hillier, Becky Mayle, Jax Bowers) came 4th, with our men's team (Dave Hillier, Calum Maynard, Philippe and Alain Barbasiewicz) winning bronze.
Well done Nick Dobie who came second at the 3rd Leon Paul mens epee competition on Saturday.
Well done to our fencers who took part in the BB&O County Championships earlier - Hannah Hornby (U14), James Radford (U14), Matthew Boyer (U16), Charlotte Williams (U16) and Alain Barbasiewicz (Men's). Hannah, James, Charlotte and Alain all won gold medals!
Well done to our U14 Epée Team who won silver yesterday at the Southern Region competition. Gregor MacLeod, Hannah Hornby and James Radford fenced very well together, winning two of their three matches.
Well done Phil Barbasiewicz and Gregor MacLeod who won the prizes in the Adult and Junior competitions. The full results can be found here.
A good showing of Reading fencers at this year's Welsh Open. In the ladies: Becky Mayle came 8th, Sam Hughes 18th, Jax Bowers 32nd. In the Mens: Calum Maynard 6th, Nick Dobie 16th, Rob Maclellan 22nd. Full results here.
The Department of Education has announced that fencing, among other Olympic sports, are to be removed from the GCSE curriculum. It is felt that this could be damaging to the sport, so Paul Sibert has started an online petition to attempt to get this reviewed. You can sign the petition here.
Another win at the weekend for Reading. Rob Maclennan won the Leon Paul BRC cadet mens epee beating George Morris in the final. Full results can be found here .
Becky Mayle won the Sussex open and Verity Hillier won the Bedford open this weekend! Also Calum came third at Bedford.