Success for the Yang sisters at the English Youth Championships

22/6/2016

Congratluations to Lumeng and Linxuan Yang who were 1st and 2nd in their respective events at the English Youth Championships, Hertfordshire Sports Village on Sunday.

In the U15 girls' sabre Lumeng trailed 8-14 in her quarter final match against Aneesah Khan but fought back brilliantly to win 15-14. In the semi final she beat Ellen Robbins Wilkinson 15-10 and then Hannah O'Reilly 15-6 in the final to win gold.

In the U11 girls' sabre event Linxuan beat Melissa Jane in the quarter final a comfortable 10-3, then overcame the number one seed Carolina Stutchbury with an excellent 10-7 victory. Unfortunately she was unable to repeat this form in the final losing 10-4 to Bethany Briele, nethertheless an excellent 2nd place !!

A special mention also to Lucie Lindsay who was 7th in the U11 girls' Sabre and Sophia Yang 5th in the U15 girls' Sabre

The club's results were as follows:

U11 Boys Foil
59th Lucas Mohaupt

U13 Boys Foil
10th Philip Lappas-Neumann
84th Jacob Trijbits

U15 Boys Foil
17th Jean-Baptiste Baigneres

U11 Girls Sabre
2nd Linxuan Yang
7th Lucie Lindsay

U15 Girls Sabre
1st Lumeng Yang
5th Sophia Yang

U11 Boys Sabre
8th Frankie Lambe-Thompson
13th Magnus Pearce
16th Jasper Hyams
17th Sid Sykes

U13 Boys Sabre
28th Daniel Linsday
30th Luc Barrier

U15 Boys Sabre
9th Lochie Springett
10th Jack Preston-Cowell
17th Kajetan McDonnell
33rd Theo Deroide

Well done everybody !!