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Paul Lowen wins Bronze at world championships

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Paul Lowen won the bronze medal in the Men’s Foil category B age group at the Veteran World Championships.

Paul navigated his way to 2nd seed after the poules after winning all his poule fights, some by some very narrow margins. After the poules, he had a bye to the last 16 of the competition where he beat Zakirov (RUS) 10 – 6 to make the quarter finals. In the last 8, he went to time to knock out Thomiszer (USA) 2 – 1 but eventually fell to Yamizake (JPN) 10 – 6 in the semi finals.

Final Results

Bronze – Paul Lowen

Well done Paul, we’re all proud of you.

Results for Paul’s competition can be found here, for the tournament they can be found here

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William Price selected for U20 GB Team

Monday, October 20th, 2014

Congratulations to William Price on being selected for the U20 GB team for the upcoming Junior World Cup event in Bratislava.

The selections can be found here

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British Fencing October Rankings

Monday, October 20th, 2014

The Saxon rankings for October

Mens Foil

41 Christopher Mollard

44 Nick Mort

63 Raffaele Lagattolla

81 William Price

95 Paul Lowen

202 Patrick Dempsey

222 Clyde Fare

279 David Lennon

Womens Foil

23 Erika Cserny

106 Zoe Sumra

Mens Sabre

80 Ben Usher

157 Sun

173 Adrian Medhurst

222 Alastair Venn

238 Johua Li

Womens Sabre

47 Zoe Sumra

58 Patrycja Marczewska

Mens Epee

606 Alex Seale

Full British Fencing Rankings can be found here

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Two Saxons make the quarter finals at Sussex

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Six Saxon fencers went to the Sussex Open last weekend with Christopher Mollard and Nick Mort (following his recently impressive form) making the quarter finals.

Men’s Foil

Nick Mort – quarter finals (7th)

Christopher Mollard – quarter finals (8th)

Paul Lowen – last 16

Raffaele Lagattolla – last 16

Nathan Garnham – last 32

Paul Harden – last 64

Well done to Nathan on making a last 32 at his first Open in a while!

Results can be found here

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Paul Lowen finishes 11th at York Open

Monday, September 29th, 2014

Paul Lowen was the sole Saxon to travel to York for the Open this weekend just gone, the results as follows:

Men’s Foil

L16 – Paul Lowen

Results can be found here

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Nick Mort makes the last 16 at the Bristol Open

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

This year’s Bristol Open happened on the weekend of 20th/21st September, and 4 fencers from Saxon fencing club made the journey to compete in the second open of the season. Saxon have made it two weekends in a row with a really big last 16 result.

In a field of 97 fencers for the Men’s Foil, the poule results ended up as:

30th V5D1 Lagattolla

41st V4D2 Mollard

48th V4D2 Mort

This year the Men’s Foil was one of the events being held in a world cup format where the top 16 before the day were given byes to the last 64, and the further top 16 after the poules were also given byes to the last 64. Everyone else would have to fight for the remaining 32 places to make the last 64 by winning one fight. As such, Lagattolla was given a bye with virtue to his rankings and Mollard and Mort were left to fence in the pre-lim round of 64 winning 15-1 and 15-10 respectively.

In the last 64, Christopher and Nick were fencing tough opponents. Christopher lost 15-6 to Nicolas Collignon of UCl and Sussex House, whereas Nick came through his encounter with fellow vet Jonathan Weekes of Salle Boston (who was recently selected to represent Northern Ireland at the upcoming Commonwealth Fencing Championships) 15-11.

In the last 32 Nick faced a tough opponent in Daniel Feaster, after a lengthy and tough fight Nick prevailed 15-10 to make the last 16. In the last 16 Nick drew his good friend Ben Peggs (British national team member), who was merciless by beating Nick 15-3.

In the Women’s Sabre, Patrycja was the only Saxon representative and made the last 32!

Well done everyone, great job.

Final results

Men’s Foil

L16 – Nick Mort

L64 – Raffaele Logattolla

L64 – Christopher Mollard

Women’s Sabre

L32 – Patrycja Marczewska

Full results can be found here

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No fencing this Thursday (18th September)

Monday, September 15th, 2014

Twyford School have told us that they need to the sports hall on short notice, so there will be no fencing this Thursday 18th September. We are trying to find an alternative venue, however unless you hear otherwise via the Saxon Facebook (like us to stay up to date), the website or by email assume there is nothing on.

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Leon Paul Sabre Open – results

Monday, September 15th, 2014

Three Saxon fencers took part in the second Leon Paul Sabre Open, their results can be found below.

Mens Sabre

L64 – Ben Usher

Womens Sabre

L64 – Patrycja Marczewska

L64 – Constance Goulletquer

Full results, including poules and DE scores can be found here

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William Price makes the last 16 at the Essex Open

Monday, September 15th, 2014

On a chilly Saturday morning, two car fulls of Saxon fencers made their way to the Essex Open (147 fencers) for the first tournament of the senior domestic season. The day didn’t get off to the best start, but with an entry list boasting one Olympian and five other fencers ranked in the top 10 of the British Fencing rankings the poules were predictably tough and read as follows:

50th V4D2 – William Price

61st V3D3 – Nick Mort

67th V3D3 – Christopher Mollard

94th V2D4 – Patrick Dempsey

95th V2D4 – Paul Lowen

117th V1D5 – Paul Harden

In the last 128, William was the only fencer who prevailed by winning 15 – 11 against a nemesis in his age group. Nick fell 15-7 to Luke Deamer in a hard fought fight where the score did not reflect the performance. Christopher lost 15-13 to Alex Schwindlein, Patrick lost out to Paul Stanbridge, Paul Lowen lost also and Paul Harden went out to Jacques Viljoen of South Africa.

In the last 64, William drew Scott Brodie (who was recently selected to represent Scotland at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships) and overcoming him 15 – 6. In the last 32 William found himself fencing Charlie St John and narrowly coming through 15-14 after having lead 14-11. William’s last 16 opponent Alex Lim (Canadian national team member) played a tactical game and used pacivity as a way of shortening the match to his advantage. He came through 15-6.

Final results

L16 – William Price

L128 – Nick Mort

L128 – Christopher Mollard

L128 – Patrick Dempsey

L128 – Paul Lowen

L128 – Paul Harden

Intermediate Tournament

Gold – Michael Lown