The Blade Club fencers hit a major performance record in the Singapore Minimes held May 2024 by winning 8 out of the 11 events contested over two days, sweeping all the Gold medals in the Epee and Foil competitions. For the Sabre competitions, we achieved a Silver and multiple Bronzes as well. Overall, it was…
Tokyo Olympian Kiria, the first Singaporean Women’s Epeeist to qualify for the Olympic Games for Singapore, has once again qualified for her second Games and will be traveling to compete in Paris come July 2024! It had been a grueling and intense qualifying season for her, but also a rewarding one with plenty of achievements….
Our Blade Club fencers flew to Manama, Bahrain for the Asian Juniors and Cadets 2024, as part of Team Singapore contingent. The Cadets and Junior fencers included Angellena Wong (Cadet Women’s Foil), Mika Wong (Cadet Men’s Epee), Azanius Nua (Cadet Men’s Epee), Ian Ho (Junior Men’s Epee), Lemuel Huang (Cadet Men’s Foil), and Elle Koh (Cadet…
Our club athletes went to Europe for a series of competitions and training camps over the holidays, fencing and training with some of the best fencers in the world. This was an invaluable and enjoyable experience in their fencing development; for many, it was a chance to train harder and push themselves beyond their limits…
About our people and their results:Total medals won by Blade Club athletes in 2023 = 100+Athletes qualified for Team Singapore each season (average) = 8-12Youngest active fencer at the club = 3+ years oldOldest active fencer at the club = 58+ years oldYoungest SEA Games champion = 14 years oldOldest SEA Games champion = 34…
The Club held a competition just for our young fencers over the Deepavali holiday on 13 November. Although not everyone was able to participate, we still had an excellent turnout for the U8, U10, and U12 events! We had ~50 participants across the categories; everyone went home with a goodie bag and many went home…
Our 2nd Cadet competition of the season again saw some excellent results from our fencers, including some of our athletes who won their first ever cadet medals! 15 year old Joshua Chew won his first ever Cadet bronze medal in the Men’s Foil event, while 14 year old Angellena Wong prevailed in a nail-biting quarterfinal…
Our young fencers competed in the Singapore Minime (September 2023), the 2nd Minime competition festival of the year. It was a intense competition with many fencers at the OCBC Arena Hall 1; while some of the Blade fencers were unfortunately unable to repeat their medal results in their events, there were a number of repeat…
A small band of Blade fencers went up north to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to compete in the 2nd SEAFF Minime hosted by the Malaysian Fencing Federation. Our fencers competed in 6 out of 8 events for Foil and Epee for U12 / U14, and came back with 1 Gold, 2 Silvers, and 3 Bronzes, and…
At the Thai Minime (pronounced mee-neem), Blade Club fencers had a great time competing in their age-group competitions. For many fencers, it was the first international competition experience; many overcame their nerves to perform well and some returned with medals. Representing Blade Club Singapore were fencers aged 9 to 14. Our fencers won 3 Golds,…