CNA did a program on Team Singapore athletes preparing for a packed 2022 sporting calendar. Watch our own Maxine Wong as one of two fencers featured in this segment! https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/team-singapore-athletes-prepare-packed-sporting-calendar-2022-video-2396671
The young Blade Fencers aged 12-14 made their mark on this past weekend with strong results in their respective weapon categories. For a long while now, Covid restrictions have put a damper on competitions; this edition of the minime (pronounced “mee-neem”) is the first one in 2 years and therefore was a welcome competition for…
As we near the end of the year, our fencers once again do battle in Cadet Challenge and Junior Nationals. Over two weekends, our athletes won a total of 5 Golds, 1 Silver, and 2 Bronzes. Of particular note was the performance of the Cadet Men Epeeists, Ian Ho, Chiang Yeem, and Azanius Nua who…
Blade Club opens the 2021-2022 campaign towards the major competitions of 2022 with an emphatic result, winning 3 golds out of 6 events at the very first local Senior competition of the season. This is an important competition for our fencers as they will be required to perform consistently in the next few competitions, local…
In the first official national competition of the 2021-2022, Blade Club’s Elle Koh won the Cadets Women’s Epee event and also came in second in the Cadets Women’s Foil event. In the Women’s Foil event held on Saturday, she topped the poule tables by with winning all of her 6 bouts, dropping only 8 touches….
With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics finally come and gone, we look back at the journey and the credible performance of Blade fencer Kiria Tikanah, with some perspectives from Coach Henry Koh: Dare to Dream a Dream After a scintillating performance at the 2019 SEA Games where Kiria won the first Women’s Epee Individual Gold in…
For the first time ever in the modern era of Fencing sport, Singapore has qualified not one, but TWO athletes to the Olympic Games! Despite the Covid19 pandemic, Singaporean fencers (and Blade Club’s very own) Kiria Tikanah Abdul Rahman (Women’s Epee), and her teammate Amita Berthier (Women’s Foil) have qualified by winning their respective events…
Blade Club Singapore is proud to see two of its athletes, Kevin and Kiria, fly the Singapore flag as they head to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to compete for a spot in the Tokyo Olympic Games, due to be held in less than 100 days. Kevin and Kiria are two of the six total athletes that will…
Our Fencers, Kiria Tikanah (Women’s Epee) and Kevin Chan (Men’s Foil) will be heading to the Asian Qualifiers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in a bid to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic games. See what they are “up” to as they film a promotional video outside OCBC arena… https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4077656968922237
Kiria Tikanah, Singapore’s first ever Epee Olympian, was recently interviewed by CityOfGood.sg enroute to her first Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, after winning the Asian Qualifiers 2021 in Uzbekistan in scintillating fashion. We love the article and particularly want to highlight some of the more important points the writer and Kiria put forward: “In Singapore,…