A couple of our club regulars were selected to represent GB at the Veterans Fencing World Championship 2017 was held in Maribor, Slovenia.

The Women's Foil team, including Sheila Anderson, won Bronze. She was also 12th in the Individual Women's Foil.

Stephen Rennie was 19th in Individual Men's Sabre 

This year the Scottish Open returned to its new home of Oriam Health and Fitness centre at Heriot-Watt University.

Saturday

Men's Epee

• 24th - Kris Moodley
• 36th - Andrew Munley

Men's Sabre

• 11th - Keith Davidson
• 13th - Andy Pearson

Women's Sabre

• 11th - Sarah Dolan

Sunday

Men's Foil

• 25th - George Dolan

Women's Foil

• 24th - Helen Pitt

GWEFC will be holding an introduction to fencing course on Thursday 2nd November. Give us a couple of hours of your time and we will teach you how to fence.  Bring a friend - it's better to learn together. There is no charge for this course.

As usual, it was a lovely sunny weekend for the Glasgow Open - ideal weather for staying indoors in a noisy fencing hall.

Several of our club members and irregular visitors competed in the event with the following results. Especially notable were Alex Wren taking Gold in Women's Epee and Constance Philippe taking Bronze in the Women's Foil (and winning Ladies Celtic Master-at-Arms).

Several of our club members and irregular attendees travelled to Manchester to compete in the British Veteran Fencing Championships 2017.  This was held at the splendid Manchester Fencing Centre hosted by the Marshal Fencing Club.

Veterans are classified as Cat 1 (40+), Cat 2 (50+), Cat 3 (60+) and Cat 4 (70+) - (our appologies to anyone who is shy about their age)

Men's Sabre - Cat 2

• Keith Davidson - Bronze
• Andy Pearson - 6th

Men's Sabre - Cat 3

• Stephen Rennie - Bronze

As usual, the Stirling Sword competition was held at Stirling University - as usual, it was a well-attended affair with many fencers from far and wide.  It was great to see teams and individuals from numerous clubs, including fencers from ECE based in Paris.

On Saturday, GWEFC had teams in the Foil and Sabre events - both had similar results

Team Foil

• 6th - "Charm Offensive" GWEFC: Maria Cabrelli, Constance Philippe, Helen Pitt, Ramsey Sartawi

GWEFC will be holding an introduction to fencing course on Thursday 9th February. Give us a couple of hours of your time and we will teach you how to fence.  Bring a friend - it's better to learn together. There is no charge for this course.

All specialist equipment will be supplied by the club - this will be worn over your own clothes.  Wear clothes you will be comfortable working out in - but no shorts due to safety concerns.  You need to bring some indoor sports shoes with non-marking soles.  The building has changing rooms and showers available.

We will be at The Atholl Arms on Thursday 15th Dec for our usual Xmas night out.

Training will resume at Cally Uni on Thursday 5th January 2017.

Our club president (and a founding member of the club) Helen Pitt travelled to New Zealand to represent Scotland at the Commonwealth Veterans Fencing Champiognships.  She won a Bronze Medal in the Women's Foil event.

More results are available on the Scottish Fencing website http://scottish-fencing.co.uk/results/2016/11/17/scottish-results-cvfc2016

Several club members and irregular visitors had much fun at the Highland Open 2016 - including Gold medals for Chris Anwyl in Men's Epee and for Constance Philippe in Women's Foil.

Saturday Results

Men's Epee

• Gold - Chris Anwyl
• 10th - Kris Moodley

Women's Epee

• Silver - Eleanor Akers 
• Bronze - Alex Wren

Men's Sabre

• Bronze - Keith Davidson