Throughout Saturday and Sunday, fencers from main golf equipment in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, in addition to the native Claymore Swords Membership, battled it out in males’s and ladies’s foil and epee.
Whereas the medals largely headed north, the Presidents Cup delivered a nationwide commonplace competitors to Dunedin, giving southern officers and volunteers the prospect to stage one of many last senior tournaments on the New Zealand fencing calendar.
In males’s epee, The Fencing Institute, of Christchurch, dominated the rostrum.
Joel Wilson claimed gold, heading off clubmate Jacob Takuira-Mita within the last of the 20-strong discipline.
Tom Eyre-Walker, of The Fencing Institute, and James Value, of Auckland’s Swords Fencing Membership, shared third.
Takuira-Mita secured a second silver medal in males’s foil, this time behind Samuel Li, of the Wellington Fencing Membership, who took the title. Bronze medals had been shared by The Fencing Institute’s Mutian Wang and Pierre Bechet, of Auckland’s Pulse Fencing.
Girls’s foil was gained by rising faculty fencer Bowie Wang, of the Diocesan College for Women, who headed a compact however aggressive 10-fencer draw. Grace Thomson, of Dunedin’s Claymore Swords Membership, completed second, whereas bronze was shared by Aucklanders Emily Shiyi Luo, of Pulse Fencing, and Isabel Wong, of Invictus Fencing Membership.
The most important girls’s discipline got here in epee, the place 14 fencers took to the piste.
Representing Auckland Swords Fencing Membership and Mount Albert Grammar College, Emilia Mason secured gold, Claymore Swords Membership’s Lisa Pichler incomes silver.
Bronze medals went to Claymore fencer Sera Cox and Auckland Swords Fencing Membership’s Xiya Wang.
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