This year fencing had 3 individuals entered into BUCS individual championships, 17-19th February. Friday the 17th saw Sophie Tapp compete in the Women’s Sabre while sunday 19th saw Maarja Konrad and Yassena Markova compete in the Women's Epee.
This year fencing had 3 individuals entered into BUCS individual championships, 17-19th February. Friday the 17th saw Sophie Tapp compete in the Women’s Sabre. Sophie did very well in the poule finishing with 4 wins and 2 losses 4-5 and 2-5. Leaving her 20th after the poules. In the first round of direct eliminations (DE’s) Sophie won 8-15? Taking her through to the next round. Where she faced the number 13, unfortunately Sophie lost this match and finished the day in 20th place. This was an improvement on last year’s results where Sophie finished 30th.
Sunday 19th saw Maarja Konrad and Yassena Markova compete in the Women's Epee.
Maarja did well in the poule and had 4 victories and 2 losses, leaving her 20th after the poule. Yassena had a more difficult poule, as a result of suffering with a sprained ankle, but managed 2 victories and 3 losses of 4-5, 3-5 & 4-5. This left Yassena in 53rd place after the poule. In the first round of DE’s Yassena was to face a highly seeded fencer. This was a well fenced match by Yassena and was very close, which was eventually lost 13-15 leaving Yassena to finish in 53rd place. Maarja won her fist DE 8-15. Taking her through to fence the number 4 seed. After a close start to the match Maarja began to gain an advantage and won 15-9, taking her through to the top 16 fencers. In the next DE Maarja faced a fencer from Bristol Uni, unfortunately Maarja lost this match and she finished 12th having been knocked out by the fencer who went on to finish second to a 2016 Rio Olympian.