Team results for Pesta Sukan Fencing Championships 2011

Congratulations to the winning teams!!

Women's Foil Team Event:
YMCA - A (Ruth, Cheryl, Qi Hui) - GOLD
YMCA - B (Liane, Lynn, Denise) - SILVER
YMCA - C (Ping, Min Hui, Chloe)- BRONZE

Women's Epee Event
YMCA - A (Magdalene Huang, Aurora Villanchelino, Tasia Lee and Lim Madeline) - BRONZE

YMCA Fencers bag GOLD at Fencing Singapore International 2011

Last week, our fencers took part in the FSI 2011 and everyone achieved commendable results.

In the Women's Foil Individual event, we saw 8 of our YMCA fencers finishing in top 12! Ruth Ng and Cheryl Wong finished with GOLD and BRONZE respectively. 

3 of our fencers Joan Ang, together with Ruth and Cheryl, were part of the 4-strong Singapore Women's Foil Team that won the GOLD medal in the Women's Foil Team event.

Photo (L to R): Ruth NG, Singapore National Women's Foil Team coach Viatcheslav Bobok and Cheryl WONG.

To view the results of FSI 2011, please visit the following page: http://www.fsi.org.sg/results.asp

Congratulations once again, fencers!

Results of The Australian Fencing Championships (U/15 and U/17)

Congratulations to the winning teams and individuals!!

Women’s Foil  U/15
Individual event
Lim Qi Hui – GOLD
Lee Thalia Ping – SILVER
Chua Min Hui – BRONZE

Team event
Singapore A (Lim Qi Hui, Denise FU, Lee Thalia Ping, Chua Min Hui-all YMCA fencers) – GOLD
Singapore B (Chloe Wong, Tan Li Ing, Chong Clara-all YMCA fencers) – SILVER

Women’s Epee U/15
Individual event
Kwong Samantha – SILVER
Lee Tasia – BRONZE

Men’s Foil U/15
Team event
Singapore(Tan Jing Xiang, Rong Adam, Lam Bryan, Chua Min Chi-all YMCA fencers) – SILVER

Women’s Foil U/17
Individual event
Liane Wong – GOLD
Lim Qi Hui – SILVER
Lee Thalia Ping – BRONZE

Team event 
Singapore A (Liane Wong, Lim Qi Hui, Denise Fu, Lee Thalia Ping-all YMCA fencers) - GOLD
Singapore B (Chua Min Hui, Chloe Wong, Pamela Wang-all YMCA fencers, Lau Ysien-Blade) – BRONZE

Women’s Epee U/17
Individual event
Lee Tasia – SILVER
Fan Jin – BRONZE
Samantha Kwong – BRONZE

Team event
Singapore A (Lee Tasia, Samantha Kwong, Fan Jin-all YMCA fencers) – GOLD
Singapore B (Claudia Lesmana, Lim Madeline, Loh Jia Tyan-all YMCA fencers) – BRONZE

Men’s Foil U/17
Team event
Singapore A (Chua Min Chi, Lam Bryan, Rong Adam, Tan Jing Xiang-all YMCA fencers) – BRONZE

Singapore Junior Fencing Championships 2011

Women's Foil (individual)
Cheryl Wong - GOLD
Lynn Yeo - SILVER
Liane Wong and Denice Fu - BRONZE

Women's Foil (team)
YMCA   B (Cheryl Wong, Ping Thalia, Chua Min Hui, Chloe Wong) - GOLD
YMCA   A (Lim Qi Hui, Denise Fu, Tan Li Ing, Liane Wong) - SILVER

Men's Foil (team)
YMCA (Bryan Lam, Tan Jing Xiang, Adam Rong, Ivan) - BRONZE

Congratulations with great performance!

South East Asian Fencing Federation 2010

Women's Individual Foil

Our cadets from both Blade Club Fencing and Y*Sparks have swept the medals for the Cadet (U17) category in the Women's Individual Foil at the SEAF Championships in Brunei, doing Singapore proud! One of the competitors, Liane Wong (Blade Club Fencing), is one of Coach Slava's trial-blazing charges and was Singapore's representative in the recent Youth Olympic Games 2010.

Results:

1st - Liane Wong
2nd - Lynn Yeo
3rd - Denise Fu / Lim Qi Hui

Womens' Foil

In the Womens' Foil, Lynn Yeo and Qi Hui has done both YMCA and Singapore proud in winning the Gold!

Congratulations Lynn, Qi Hui and Coach Slava for the astounding win!

Lynn Yeo (1st from left) and Qi Hui (2nd from left) with Coach Slava (Bottom centre)

YMCA International Fencing Cup 2010

The YMCA international Fencing Cup 2010 presented by Standard Chartered Bank was held on the 11 and 12 of December 2010 at the Raffles Institution Indoor Sports Hall. Featuring 140 fencers from seven countries, the event was organised by YMCA of Singapore and the Y*Sparks Fencing Interest Group.
The event was well received, with both local and international participants. Local clubs included our very own YMCA Fencing Club, Blade Club Fencing, Fencing Masters and Z Fencing. Overseas clubs included Excalibur Australia, Hong Kong Fencing School, Life-wide Fencing Studio (Hong Kong), Swashbucklers Fencing Club (Malaysia), Touche Fencing Club (Malaysia), HIS Club Jakarta, 5 Junior School Club (Indonesia) and IBSH Hsinchu (Taiwan).

We were honoured to have Mr. Seah Kian Peng, MP Marine Parade GRC to grace our event as our Guest of Honour. Mr. Seah gave an encouraging speech, saying that “while fencing has been featured in the modern Olympic games since the late 1800s, fencing in Singapore had only started picking up over the last two or three decades. Despite being a relatively young fencing nation, fencing has been identified by the Singapore Sports Council as a sport that Singaporeans can excel in internationally”.

VIPs representing our various sponsors and supporting organisations include Mr. Sean Wallace (Group Head, Origination and Client Coverage, Wholesale Banking, Standard Chartered Bank), Mr. Jay House (Head of WB Corporate Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank), Ms. Maria Segergren (Regional Marketing Head, Southern Asia, Standard Chartered Bank), Mr. Chua Puay Hian (Director, Business Development, Singapore Health Services), Mrs. Peggy Kwong (LiveWell), Mr. Bob Gambardella (Chief, Singapore Sports Institute & Sports Development Group, Singapore Sports Council), Mr. Nicholas Fang (President, Fencing Singapore) and Mr. Adrian Cordeiro (Ex-Principal, Teck Whye Secondary School).

Mr. Leslie Wong (Board of Directors, YMCA) also graced the 2nd day of the competition to give out prizes to the event winners of the day.

Standard Chartered Bank was our Presenting Sponsor, with Venue Sponsor Raffles Institution and Main Sponsors Hyflux, LiveWell, SingHealth and StikFas. Our Supporters include Fencing Singapore and Singapore Sports Council. We are thankful for their kind and generous support towards this event.

Results are available here.



About Fencing

Fencing is one of the four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games. Currently, three types of weapon are used in Olympic fencing:

• Foil — a light thrusting weapon with a valid target area that is restricted to the torso, including the back, but not the arms. Hits are scored only with the tip; hits with the side of the blade of the weapon are disregarded. Only a single hit can be scored by either fencer at one time. If both fencers hit at the same time, the referee must use the rules of "right of way" to determine which fencer gets the touch.
• Sabre — a light cutting and thrusting weapon that uses a valid target area of everything above the waist, except for the hands. The sabre is primarily used to slash, so hits with the side of the blade as well as the tip are scored as valid. Like the foil, this weapon follows the rules of "right of way", and only one fencer can score a hit at a time.
• Épée — a heavy thrusting weapon, with a valid target area of the entire body, head to toe. Like the foil, all hits must be scored with the tip, and not the sides of the blade. Unlike either sabre or foil, epee allows simultaneous hits to be scored by both fencers at the same time. There is no "right of way" in épée.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing