Haverstock Fencing Club

Alastair Gerrard won the inaugaral Elite Open Epee and James Thornton took bronze ahead of a strong field that saw lots of upsets on the way. This was Alastair's first win under Haverstock colours and meant that it was the club's fifth win in a Senior Men's Open and fourteeneth Top 3 finish this season. Top work guys.

James Thornton added another silver to the medal collection for Haverstock, taking second place at Birmingham. Well done James.

Another competition, another set of medals for Haverstock. On this day Alessandro Lazzati proved to be the Capo di Tutti Capi of our Italian contingent, bringing home the silver medal. Lorenzo Paolosini was an excellent third and Greg Allen L8. For the ladies, Lucinda Gallant added to her growing medal collection with an impressive third place and Caroline Nickerson celebrated her first fencing medal with a L8 finish.
The proud medallists are shown above with their hardware.

Nick Perry had an awesome weekend in Estonia, taking eighth place in the Senior World Cup. On his way to the quarter finals, he beat three of the World Top 50 fencers including a remarkable victory against the reigning World Champion. Congratulations Nick.

Also, Haverstock Summer Camp organiser and friend of the club Jonny Willis made the top eight, taking 5th place.

Jonny May had another great result with eighth place at a tough Junior World Cup in Basel, Switzerland. The result confirms his position as the British Junior No. 1 and qualification for the Junior World Championships. Top Work.

Haverstock kept up the club's excellent run in domestic competition, with the third consecutive all Haverstock final in a major open and the fourth win of the season. This time Gianluca Farina managed to retain the title he won last year, beating Alessandro Lazzati in the final. Alastair Gerrard completed the set with third. Well done guys.

Congratulations to Greg Allen who came out on top against Nick Perry in a reverse of the London Open Epee final.

Alessandro Lazzati completed a full set of medals for the club, taking bronze. Jonny May was 5th and in total Haverstock accounted for 12 of the top 32.

In the ladies event, Harriet Lamborn was an excellent 5th.

The club was so dominant throughout the day, we even won the raffle.

Well done Haverstock boys - a great weekend of results.  Nick Perry champion and Greg Allen runner up.  Other notable L16 results from Gianluca (5th), Alex Agrenich (11th).

Congratulations! A great result and fine victory over Tom Cadman in the final. Ben fatto!

Congratulations to Jonathan May who was placed 5th in the FIE Junior Men's Epee World Cup in Luxembourg (Sept 2009). An excellent start to the season!

Haverstock fencer, Sara Spence, 41, won the national veterans’ women’s épée championship at Gloucester’s Oxstalls Tennis Centre. The format for these championships, which are open to all fencers over the age of 40, is two rounds of poules, in which groups of six fence each other, followed by direct elimination. This stage involves scoring ten hits within six minutes with a one-minute rest after three minutes.

Only seventh seed after the poules, Spence reached the quarter-finals without much difficulty, but then had a hard-fought match against Kate Morwell-Neave, of Canterbury, before narrowly winning 5-4.

In the semi-finals, she established an early 6-0 lead over former world veteran silver medallist Clare Halsted and held on to win 10-4. A similar pattern emerged in the final against Jane Clayton, as Spence dominated from the start to win 10-4 and collect her first national title.