Our newest coach at Redditch, Anita Mason, turned 18 last week and was given a wonderful birthday present by the England Fencing Association.

She has been selected to represent England at the Junior Commonwealth Championships in Jersey in February 2012.

Congratulations and Happy Birthday Anita

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U18 Boys

1st Murray Leitch

2nd Richard Vernon

=3rd Connor Mitchell

=3rd Dan Hatton

U16 Boys

1st Will Walters

2nd Reece Cater

=3rd Michael Booth

=3rd Ainsley Coffin

U14 Boys

1st Mirron Webb

2nd Stas Rudzki

=3rd Ellis Lawrie

=3rd Luke Hamilton

U12s

1st Alex Powell

2nd Dan T'hart

=3rd Marshall Glarvey

=3rd Anthony Bull

5th Joe Larner

6th Jan Rudzki

7th Ben Webb

8th Jacob Mayall

9th Morgan

10th Rhys

U10 Boys

1st Adrian Kmiotek

2nd Joe Hickman

=3rd Marek Webb

=3rd Harry James

5th Cameron Head

Redditch Youth was represented by Alex, Mirron, Richard, Ben W, Jan & coach Anita at the recent British Youth Championship Finals in Sheffiled.

We had some great results with Mirron Webb at his first finals finishing 9th/70 in the U14 Boys Foil and coach Anita making the top 8 in the U18 Girls Foil. Richard Vernon finished 37th in the U18 Boys Foil & alex 23rd in the U12 Girls Foil. Ben W & Jan in their first competition of this level or size came 42nd & 58th respectively in the U12 Boys.

Well done to all the RYF Fencers who competed at the H&W County Champs on the weekend of the 9th/10th

JUBILEE FOIL RESULTS

GOLD MEDALS

Mirron Webb (U14B) & Alex Powell (U12G)

SILVER MEDALS

Dan T'hart (U12 B) & Richard Vernon (U18B)

BRONZE MEDALS

Ben Webb (U12 B), Jacob Mayall (U12 B), Luke Hamilton (U14B), Ellis Lawrie (U14B), Michael Booth (U16B), Murray Leitch (U18B)

5th Tim Watson (U18B), 6th Marshall Glarvey (U12B) & 7th Anthony Bull (U12B).

Three fencers also competed in their first senior competitions, all winning fights.

Well done to Dan Hatton (13th Senior Epee), Mirron Webb (13th Senior Foil) & Richard Vernon (9th Senior Foil).

Well done to Mirron Webb, who won the bronze medal at the Southampton Premier Series Foil Grand Prix last weekend. In a large field of under 14 boys, Mirron eventually went out to Stuart Jacob from Sussex House in the semi-final, the only fencer he lost to all day.

U12 Boys

5th Jan Rudzki (Q)

6th Ben Webb (Q)

9th Anthony Bull

11th Jacob Mayall

13th Marshall Glarvey

U14 Boys

=3rd BRONZE MEDAL Mirron Webb (Q)

15th Ellis Lawrie

U16 Boys

8th Will Walters

U18 Boys

= 3rd BRONZE MEDAL Richard Vernon (Q)

5th Murray Leitch

U12 Girls

Alex Powell (Q) (Claiming her Q through her bronze medal at the 2010 U10 British Youth Championships)

Alex, Jan, Ben, Mirron & Richard have qualified to represent the West Midlands at the British Youth Championships in Sheffield to be held May 2011

U11 Girls

GOLD MEDAL 1st Alex Powell

U11 Boys

8th Marshall Glarvey

10th Ben Webb

U13 Boys

19th Dan T'Hart

23rd Jan Rudzki

24th Ellis Lawrie

25th Stanislaw Rudzki

31st Jacob Mayall

32nd Anthony Bull

U15 Boys

14th Michael Booth

At the recent Redditch Sports Award evening Redditch Youth Fencing Club was awarded Redditch Sports Club of the Year!

Please click on the news page to see the results from the Kenilworth Leon Paul Junior Series & West Midlands BYC Qualifiers!

Congratulations to all RYF fencers today at the Worcester Gala Day.

Mirron Webb & Michael Booth were undefeated in the U14 Boys foil taking 1st place.

Alex Powell, Marshall Glarvey and Stas Rudski were also undefeated in the U10/12 catagory and won 1st place, 2nd place went to a Daniel T'Hart & Ellis Lawrie who only lost to the A-team and 3rd place went to Jacob Mayall, Anthony Bull & Yan Rudski who only lost to the A & B teams. All other teams fell to our swords, it was an excellent day and a lot of fun for everyone.

Thank you to Nick Chapman & Raf for organising an excellent competition and also to all the parents who brought their children. Particular thanks should go to Guy Powell who made a superb impromptu armourer for the day.

Bring on the Kenilworth Leon Paul and the BYC qualifiers in January.

Alex Powell (10) fenced in the under 11 Campden Leon Paul Junior Series competition last weekend. In a field of 17, Alex showed some fantastic skills in her first year at this age group to win a bronze medal.

Well done Alex.

At RYF we are continually looking at how we can develop the club. One main development we can make is by increasing the number of girls we have attending regularly and so we are looking at starting a new group aimed solely at girls from the local area. This new group should be starting on 6th November, if you know of any girls who might be interested in attending this group please let Hannah know and she will give/ send you a flier.

Well done to all the RYF fencers who took part

U10 Boys

GOLD Medal Marshall Glarvey

U12 Boys

SILVER Medal Stanislaw Rudzki

BRONZE Medal Anthony Bull

5th Jacob Mayall

7th Joe Larner

8th Oliver Crompton

10th Ellis Lawrie

U14 Boys

SILVER Medal Luke Hamilton

5th Michael Booth

U16 Boys

BRONZE Medal Daniel Hatton

BRONZE Medal Murray Leitch

U18 Boys

GOLD Medal Mark Hamilton

BRONZE

Well done to Alex for her bronze medal at the recent U10 Girls British Youth Championships

This is a fantastic result and we are all very proud of her

Also very well done to Benn Webb for his top 32 placing in the U10 Boys BYC's, the best result for a West Midlands fencer and at his first ever fencing competition!

Well done to Richard Vernon & Murray Leitch who both qualified in the Under 16 catagory of the British Youth Championships finals in Stoke on Trent later this year.

U16 Results

3rd=Richard Vernon

3rd= Murray Leitch

Under 14 Results

9th Michael Booth

14th Mirron Webb

16th Edward Roden-Smith

LPJS Kenilworth Results (17/01/2010)

U11 Girls

1st Alex Powell (Pictured)

U11 Boys

13th Jan Rudzki

U13 Boys

8th Mirron Webb

22nd Stanislaw Rudzki

29th Benedict James-Pemberton

U15 Boys

15th Michael Booth

RYF coach Hannah Chenneour came 14th at the recent Senior British National Fencing Championships. A few years go Hannah was ranked in the UK top 10 in Women’s Epee, but a chronic shoulder injury has forced her to miss most of the last 2 seasons. Hannah has lacked in confidence since returning, but her performance at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield showed why she was a member of the Senior British Squad before her injury. Beating the current GB number 3 (Megan Lomas) in the early rounds settled Hannah after a slightly shaky start. She went on to convincingly beat last year’s quarter finalist Hannah Shackleton in the last 32, 15 points to 9.

Her next fight against Ali Evans should have been straight forward, and it started well with Hannah taking an early 6 - 1 lead in the 1st to 15 fight. Evans, who had earlier beaten GB number 13 (Jade Clark), then began a startling recovery scoring hit after hit, running out the eventual winner by 15 - 12.

This result sees Hannah's GB senior ranking rise to 29, moving back towards her rightful place in the top 10.

Redditch Youth Fencing Club is very sad to lose one of their coaches this week.

Neil Seager joined the club as a fencer aged 9, was Club Captain at 17 and then joined the coaching staff at 18. He has taught the basics of fencing to every new pupil who has joined us for the past 2 years.

He is training to become an accountant and now must concentrate on his rapidly approaching exams.

RYFC would like to thank Neil for his hard work and wish him well for the future, you shall be missed.

In the Men’s Foil event, Andy Chung (17) and Head Coach, Sam Stockley represented Redditch Youth FC. Sam was undefeated in the early round and was ranked 1st going into the knock-out stages. Andy had a more difficult start but managed to enter the business end of the tournament as 5th seed. Andy met local coach Matt Haynes, from Malvern, in the quarter final. Chung took an early lead putting Haynes in a bad temper for the remainder of the fight. This could have disrupted Andy mentally but he held his nerve to take the fight 15 points to 12 which meant he next faced Stockley in the semi-final. Sam led from start to finish but Chung never let go or gave up and always kept the fight close with Sam running out the winner 15 - 12. Sam then met Dan Robinson (19) from Ross on Wye in the final, despite Dan being ranked 13th in the UK senior foil rankings, he had not once beaten Stockley. This time Robinson’s superior fitness told and he ran out a worthy winner as he beat Stockley for the first time 15 - 11.

Hannah Chenneour won the Women’s Epee event with only a few worrying moments. Local prodigy Elizabeth Powell (14) from Bromsgrove gave Hannah her closest moment leading her 14 – 13 in the first to 15 semi final. Hannah’s experience told as she patiently waited for the right opportunities and took the last 2 hits to knock-out Powell who took the bronze medal for a very creditable 3rd place. In the final Hannah met her county team mate Emma Potter from Stourbridge. After the close semi-final Hannah started like an express train and won the fight 15 – 5 in less than 3 minutes, taking the H&W title for the 1st time.

James Harris (19) from Bromsgrove has recently qualified for the British Epee Team at the U20 European Championships. The selection is made using the national under-20 ranking at the end of the season, which finished in July. Harris finished the season ranked 3rd in the UK and therefore qualifies for the 3-man team at the European Championships which take place in Odense, Denmark in October. This follows from his selection at the U20 World Championships which took place in Belfast in April.