Congratulations to Lumeng Yang who won a bronze medal as part of the GB A team at the Camden International cadet event yesterday.  
The team had a bye through the L16 round and then beat the Netherlands 45-38 in the L8 .  In the L4 they faced a strong Singapore team and narrowly lost 45-40 in an exciting bout.  The GB team then faced Romania in another close fight in the bronze medal play off; GB eventually closing out their opponents 45-39 for a well deserved 3rd place finish.

In the boys team event Gabriel Van Hoffelen was a member of the GB B team which finished 5th (losing eventually to GB A team,) whilst Camden A and Camden B teams finished 17th and 20th respectively, both losing their first D.E. matches.

In the individual event Zach Klein again showed the progress that he has made of recent months with another top 32 placing.

In the senior satelite event on the Sunday JJ Webb was 5th losing 15-13 to Will Deary, whilst Soji Aiyenuro and Curtis Miller finished in the L16.

A full set of Camden placings are shown below:

Cadet Boys Individual:
30th Zachary Klein
48th Gabriel Van Hoffelen
88th Phinn Ramsay
100th Kajetan McDonnell
103rd Tully Hyams
104th Harry Paffett
116th Jack Preston-Cowell
130th Mark Omoboriowo

Cadet Girls Individual:
50th Lumeng Yang
78th Sophia Yang

Cadet Boys Team:
5th GB B team 
17th Camden A
20th Camden B 

Cadet Girls Team:
3rd GB A team 

Senior Mens FIE Satelite:
5th JJ Webb
9th Curtis Miller
11th Soji Aiyenuro
23rd Nathan Potter
37th James Potter

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Christmas Dinner
Thursday 15 December 2016
It's time to get the annual Camden Fencing Club Christmas dinner in your diaries.

It'll be held on Thursday 15th December 2016.

We are planning a three course sit down dinner, approx cost £27 per head excluding drinks at the Old White Lion, East Finchley.

Please email Shannon on sva_murphy@yahoo.com asap to confirm whether you can attend.

Please note we will need a £10 deposit by 31 October and final payment by 15 November. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please email Shannon for the bank details. 

For those of you who have not attended our previous Christmas parties it's a great night to end the year with the annual CFC awards and Christmas raffle. 

RSVP as soon as possible as it's a great night not to be missed!

Congratulations to Grace and Barry Coulter who were selected to fence for Great Britain at the veterans World Championships in Stralsund, Germany last week.  Unfortunately despite promising starts in the poules from both our fencers (Grace 3v 2d and Barry 4v 1d), neither were able to progress beyond their first direct elimination bout (Grace losing to Zoppke-Donaldson (GER) in the L32 and Barry losingto Foster (AUS) in the L64).

Click here for full set of results

Please note that the club will be closed for Chrsitmas from 20th Dec to 2nd Jan inclusive.  This information can also be seen in the calendar section of this website.

​Dear all

The Club AGM will take place at 7pm on Monday 14 November, at Acland Burghley School.


We encourage everyone to attend. This is an important opportunity to keep abreast of club developments in the past year and also to obtain update on future plans.

An Agenda will be available before the meeting and in the meantime we are seeking nominations for the election of officers and committee members.
 

1. Chair                           (currently Patricia Aiyenero )
2. Vice Chair                    (currently Joanna Braine)
3. Secretary                    (currently Shannon Williams)
4. Treasurer                     (currently Sarah Ellis)
5. Coach Co-ordinator      (currently Ian Williams)
6. Foil parents representatives x 2     (currently Emma Hudson, Maria  Garcia)
7. Sabre parents representatives x 2  (currently Florence Tilkens)          

Nominations are further sought for the following positions:

1. Armourer:                     (currently Anthony Preston–Cowell, Bronagh Miskelly) 
2. Social Secretary             (currently Nathalie Dehaye) 
3. Publicity Officer/Media & Marketing      (currently Bronagh Miskelly) 
4. Fundraising and Volunteer committee x 2    

 
Please email all nominations to sva_murphy@yahoo.com and feel free to contact Shannon should you wish to discuss the various office roles


If you have any items you would like to be added to the agenda please email Shannon by Monday 31 October.

We look forward to seeing you then

The committee

Three of Camden's cadets were on international duty last weekend in Godollo, Hungary.  It was the first time that any of them had represented Great Britain on foreign soil.

Unfortunately Lumeng Yang was rather off form on this occasion and did not progress beyond the first round poule.  Gabriel Van Hoffelen won 3 lost 3 in the first round but was then unfortuately eliminated in the second round with 2 victories 4 defeats.

The star of the show was however Zach Klein who in a strong field of 225 fencers (all of Europe's top nations were present) finished 32nd. Zach won 3 lost 3 in the first round, won 2 lost 4 in the second round and was seeded 117 going in to the direct elimination. At this stage Zach faced the number 12 seed Mokhov (RUS) whom he disposed of 15/14 in a thrilling encouter.  Zach's next opponent was Ottaviani (ITA) whom he beat 15-13.  At the last 32 stage he came up against Sugimoto (JPN), and despite taking the correct parry at
14-14 he rushed his riposte leaving just one light for the Japanese fencer.  After this defeat Zach fenced the rather awkward Glasner (POL) in the repecharge but was unfortunately defeated 15-9 to finish in 32 place.  
This was an excellent result for the Camden fencer, one which moves him to number 6 in the British rankings.

In the team event Lumeng was part of the GBR A team which finished a very creditable 7th place from 38 teams. In the mens event there were 41 teams. Gabriel was a part of the GBR D team which lost to the GBR B team 45-43 in the last 32.  Zach in the GBR B team lost 45-41 to the GBR A team in the last 8. GBR A team went on to finish an excellent 2nd place; losing to hosts Hungary in the final.

Well done guys !!

A full set of results for Godollo can be viewed at the link below:
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http://www.eurofencing.info/tournaments/details/hungary-godollo-2016

 Congratulations to JJ Webb who won the Camden Trophy on Tuesday night 4th October, beating James Fotherby in the final.

22 fencers competed on Tuesday and 46 people  are now on the Camden Trophy rankings which shows that this competition is going from strength to strength !!
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