Competition Results
On Tuesday, 21 February, DUFC made the trip out to UCD to compete in the annual colours match. Following a period of UCD dominance of the trophy, DUFC won the title back in 2008 by a margin of 4-2. This year's squad went one better than that and took a 5-1 victory winning all of the weapon events except Womens Sabre. Several of Trinity's victories were by large margins including two 5-0 white washes.
With both the men and women starting with the epee events, we got off to a strong start winnning a hard fought 5-3 victory in the mens event with a decidely more straight-forward 5-1 result in the womens event. The second round of matches saw Trinity's only loss of the evening in Women's Sabre but this was more than compensated for by the strong 5-0 triumph in Mens foil. With Trinity 3-1 up overall, in the final two matches of Men's Sabre and Women's Foil Trinity only needed one win to fully secure the trophy for a second year running. As it happened Trinity not only took Women's Foil 5-0 but also overturned last year's loss in Mens Sabre by taking a 5-1 win. Trinity's dominance of the event was underlined by taking both the foil matches without conceding a bout in either.
This victory means that in 2009 DUFC teams have won the Intervarsities, the Colours and the Trinity Cup. Our thanks go to UCD for hosting this year's match and we look forward to trying to make it three-in-a-row in Trinity next year.
Scores and Teams:
Mens Foil, WON, 5-0:
Louis Arron (c)
Ned Mitchell
Lachlan Sykes
Subs:Declan Gibbons and Donal Mulligan
Mens Epee, WON, 5-3:
Colm Flynn(c)
Alex Kelly
Alex Von Rakowski
Sub: Ned Mitchell
Mens Sabre, WON, 5-1:
Ali Mahdavirad (c)
Jack MacHugh
Lachlan Sykes
Womens Foil, WON, 5-0:
Kate Harvey (c)
Jenny Jennings
Maria Treacy
Sub: Bairbre Holmes
Womens Epee, WON, 5-1:
Kate Cunnigham
Kate Harvey (c)
Hannah Lowry-O’Reilly
Sub: Bairbre Holmes
Womens Sabre, Lost, 1-5:
Hannah Lowry-O’Reilly
Bairbre Holmes
Maria Treacy
Sub: Kate Harvey (c)
Senior Irish Nationals, IFF, 28-29 March, 2009
The annual event open only to those of Irish Nationality saw Trinity pick up two bronze medals for Maria Treacy's semi-final in Womens Foil and for Colm Flynn's in Mens Epee.
Mens Epee:
3. Colm Flynn
18. Alex Kelly
21. Gabriel Beecham
Mens Foil:
8. Donal Mulligan
10. Declan Gibbons
Mens Sabre:
11. Jack Mc Hugh
15. Chris Mills
Womens Epee:
6. Hannah Lowry O'Reilly
8. Kate Cunningham
Womens Foil:
3. Maria Treacy
7. Jennifer Jennings
10. Bairbre Holmes
Student Championships, Maynooth, 21/22 March, 2009
An outstanding result for Trinity in Womens Foil at the Student Championships saw out squad take three of the four podium places with Kate Harvey beating Jenny Jennings in the final and Maria Treacy taking third. Two more final positions were achieved by Louis Arron in Mens Foil and Hannah Lowry O'Reilly in Womens Epee. Donal Mulligan's semi-final in Mens Foil as well as a host of L8 finishes also contributed to a memorable weekend for Trinity's fencers.
Mens Epee:
5. Colm Flynn
12. Gabriel Beecham
Mens Foil:
2. Louis Arron
3. Donal Mulligan
8. Jiang Zhou 18. Gabriel Beecham
Mens Sabre:
6. Rodrigo Gonzalez
8. Jack Mc Hugh
16. Gabriel Beecham
Womens Epee:
2. Hannah Lowry O'Reilly
8. Kate Cunningham
Womens Foil:
1. Kate Harvey
2. Jenny Jennings
3. Maria Treacy
7. Bairbre Holmes
Trinity win 2009 Intervarsities!
For the second year running Dublin University Fencing Club has won the Irish Intervarsity Championships. This year's resounding victory comfortably confirmed Trinity's current position at the top of Irish University fencing. In losing only two matches all weekend the team came home having won five of the six events, up from three last year. Trinity won all of Mens Foil, Mens Epee, Womens Foil, Womens Epee, Womens Sabre and came a hugely improved second place in Mens Sabre only losing one match to the eventual winners, DKIT.
This second victory in a row brings Trinity's total number to 32 wins in the competitions 55 year history. These consecutive wins are only part of Trinity's continued drie to dominate Irish fencing, a drive that we aim to continue in April's Colours Match against UCD.
The Trinity teams were as follows:
Mens Foil, WINNERS:
Louis Arron (c)
Declan Gibbons
Ned Mitchell
Donal Mulligan
Alex Von Rakowski
Mens Epee, WINNERS:
Colm Flynn(c)
Alex Kelly
Ned Mitchell
Alex Von Rakowski
Mens Sabre, Second Place:
Rodrigo Gonzalez
Ali Mahdavirad (c)
Chris Mills
Womens Foil, WINNERS:
Kate Harvey (c)
Bairbre Holmes
Jenny Jennings
Maria Treacy
Womens Epee, WINNERS:
Kate Cunnigham
Kate Harvey (c)
Bairbre Holmes
Hannah Lowry-O’Reilly
Womens Sabre, WINNERS:
Clancy Flynn
Hannah Lowry-O’Reilly
Bairbre Holmes
Maria Treacy (c)
East of Ireland Open, UCD, 14/15 February, 2009
With a significant contingent making the trip to deepest darkest UCD Dublin for the East of Ireland Open, DUFC had a number of top results with very solid finishes all round. The Easts also provided a good opportunity for our novice fencers to take a step up and gains some experience, an opportunity wich was taken up en masse. Trinity's most notable results were semi-finals for Alex Von Rakowski (ME), Ali Mahdavirad (MS), Hannah Lowry O'Reilly (WE) and Maria Treacy (WF). The complete DUFC resutls were as follows:
Mens Epee:
3. Alex Von Rakowski
11. Colm Flynn
15. Lochlainn Coyne
17. Rory Greenan
24. William Quill
30. Tomas Sullivan
Mens Foil:
5. Lachlann Sykes
9. Donal Mulligan
14. Declan Gibbons
25. Alex Von Rakowski
38. Sam Bouma
42. Tomas Sullivan
Withdrawn: Louis Arron
Mens Sabre:
3. Ali Mahdavirad
6. Tomas Arnfelt
9. Chris Mills
17. Rodrigo Gonzalez
22. Jack Mc Hugh
28. Samuel Bouma
Womens Epee:
3. Hannah Lowry O'Reilly
Womens Foil:
3. Maria Treacy
5. Kate Harvey
14. Bairbre Holmes
24. Jennifer Jennings
25. Helen Naddy
Trinity Cup, Trinity, 31 January, 2009
A hugely successful day for Trinity saw our First and Third teams meet in the final. With both teams having to overcome tough French opposition in the semi-finals, this was a rewarding win for the club with the DUFC first team of Louis Arron (c) MF, Colm Flynn ME, Ali Mahdavirad S, Kate Harvey WF and Hannah Lowry O'Reilly WE coming out on top. The DUFC second team finished in the round of the last 8.
Prof. Duffy Memorial Team Epee, Trinity, 24/25 January, 2009
Trinity's annual epee team event was as well attended as usual with teams from several countries attending. The mens winners were Tiromachino from Italy who dominated all their matches and were too strong for Edinburgh in the final. The women's event saw Leipzig retain the trophy coming ahead of Team International. DUFC's first epee team suffered the ignominy of losing out in the L16 to our foilists masquerading as epeeists for the day.
Northern Irish Open, Belfast, 17/18 January, 2009
A large group of Trinity fencers made the short trip north to compete in the Northern Irish Open in Belfast. The most noteworthy results were the final appearances of Louis Arron in Mens Foil and Colm FLynn in Mens Epee and Kate Harvey in WOmens Foil. They were beaten by David Alexander, Andrew Fenwick and Katie Gillespie respectively. The complete DUFC resutls were as follows:
Mens Epee:
2. Colm Flynn
Mens Foil:
2. Louis Arron
11. Donal Mulligan
12. Declan Gibbons
14. Ned Mitchell
Mens Sabre:
12. Rodrigo Gonzalez
13. Ali Mahdavirad
Womens Epee:
13. Hannah Lowry O'Reilly
Womens Foil:
3. Kate Harvey
7. Maria Treacy
12. Jennifer Jennings
14. Bairbre Holmes
Irish Open, 29-30 November, 2008
Elsewhere in the Irish Open, Trinity had a strong entry with several good results. Apart from Louis' Triumph there was a third place medal for Maira Treacy in Women's Foil and last 8 finishes for Declan Gibbons (MF) and CLancy Flynn (WS).
Mens Epee (FIE Satellite):
39. Colm Flynn
41. Rory Greenan
Mens Foil:
1. Louis Arron
5. Declan Gibbons
11. Edward Mitchell
13. Donal Mulligan
18. Alex Von Rakowski
22. Chris Mills
23. Jiang Zhou
36. Lochlainn Coyne
Mens Sabre:
14. Ali Mahdavirad
17. Rodrigo Gonzalez
23. Chris Mills
Womens Epee:
17. Kate Harvey
Womens Foil:
3. Maria Treacy
9. Jenny Jennings
12. Kate Harvey
21. Bairbre Holmes
Womens Sabre:
5. Clancy Flynn
Trinity Team Foil, 22-23 November, 2008
The first competition to be hosted this season by Trinity finished with second place finishes for both our men's and women's teams. Though doing excellently to reach the finals both teams lost out to strong Pembroke teams.
Congratulations to Pembroke on thier brilliant weekend in which they won both the men's and women's events.
Competitions 15 and 16 November 2008 The weekend of the 15 and 16 November saw two competitions with Trinity fencers take place; our novices made the trek to Cork for the annual Schull Novice competition where our stand-out result was Eleanor Friel's third place in the woman's event. Overall we had sixteen fencers involved in teh novice competition, a very respectable turnout from the club. The full Trinity results are as follows:
Women:
3. Eleanor Friel
6. Bairbre Holmes
12. Helena Fikerova
15. Diane Kostroch
20. Holly Acton
24. Kelsey Shields
26. Brenda Doherty
27. Helen Naddy
28. Elaine Kavanagh
31. Geraldine Master
Men:
16. Tyrone Croome-Carroll
17. Chris Mills
24. Sam Bouma
32. Lochlainn Coyne
40. Henry Elder
41. Thomas Sullivan
Congrats to all those who competed. The experience they gained should be a boon to Trinity in coming competitions.
The Other event in which Trinity fencers were involved in this busy weekend was the Welsh Open in Cardiff, an Irish ranking event for the first time. Three of our fencers made crossed to Wales for the hugley competitive event with Colm Flynn coming 69th in the mens epee and Maria Treacy and Kate Harvey achieving 45th and 57th places respectively in the womens foil.
Vinnie Duffy Sabre, DKIT, August 2008 Following a training day on Saturday September 13th Dundalk IT hosted the Vinnie Duffy Sabre competition on Sunday 14th. Two of Trinity's sabreurs made the trek north along the coast to record finishes of 8th (Ali Mahdavirad) and 10th (Rodrigo Gonzalez).
South of Ireland Open, UCC, August 2008
The South of Ireland Open took place on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th August in UCC's Mardyke Arena. A mixture of novice and experienced Trinity fencers made the trip for a hugely enjoyable weekend in Cork.Trinity's outstanding result of the weekend was Women's Foil National Champion Maria Treacy's 2nd place finish in the Women's Foil. She had met fellow Trinity fencer Kate Harvey in the semi finals; a nail biting match resulted in the closest possible result, a 15-14 finish. Maria went on to be defeated by Sonja Waloszek in the final while Kate went on to record another third place finish on the second day of competition, this time in the epee.
There was another intra-club clash in the last 16 of the Men's Foil where Donal Mulligan overcame Declan Gibbons in a highly competitive match and went on to record a 7th place finish.
The full list of DUFC results from the competition are as follows:
Mens Epee:
11. Colm Flynn
15. James Stratford
Mens Foil:
7. Donal Mulligan
10. Declan Gibbons
22. Gabriel Beecham
Mens Sabre:
6. Rodrigo Gonzalez
Womens Foil:
2. Maria Treacy
3. Kate Harvey
Womens Epee:
3. Kate Harvey
Well done to all our fencers involved in the weekend's action.
UCD Novice Championship, 2008
UCD's inaugural 6 weapon novice competition saw only one Trinity entrant; Gabriel Beecham however entered all three men's events recording his best result in the epee where he finished 7th. Alongside that result he came 12th and 16th in the foil and sabre events respectively.Dublin Epee, UCD, 2008
In the height of what passes for an Irish the summer, two Trinity epeeists travelled to deepest darkest UCD to for the Dublin Open Epee. After fighting through two sets of poules both competitors finished in the medal positions; Hannah Lowry O'Reilly impressed with her best result to date by finishing second it the women's event, unluckily being beaten in the final by Lorraine McGill by only one point in a 14-15 final score. Hannah's result is all the more notable given that she has been fencing less than a year having only begun fencing at the start of the 2007/08 season. Elsewhere, Colm Flynn reached the semi-finals in the men's event before losing to UCC's Michalis Kirimilidis.Champions - Intervarsities
Champions - Colours vs. UCD
Champions - Colours vs. DkIT
International call ups - Lachlan Sykes, Louis Arron, Declan Gibbons, Colm Flynn, Maria Treacy, Kate Harvey, Hannah Lowry O'Reilly
National Student Champions - Louis Arron and Kate Harvey (Men's and Women's Foil respectively)
Trinity College Pinks - Lachlan Sykes, Kate Harvey, Colm Flynn, David Cahill
Intervarsities 2008
Here are the results for the intervarsities 2008 which was held by UCC. Take a look at the shiny club at the top. :)Final Standings :
NUMBER 1 DUBLIN UNIVERSITY!!!
2 UCD
3 DCU
4 UCC
5 NUIM
6 UUC
7 QUB
8 DKIT
9 RCSI
10 NUIG
Men's Foil: TCD
Men's Epee: TCD
Men's Sabre: UCD
Women's Foil: TCD
Women's Epee: DCU
Women's Sabre: UCD
Congratulations to all who attended, especially our teams who have trained tirelessly throughout the year.
And of course congratulations are due for our Captain Lachlan Syke's and our women's captain Maria Treacy for leading their teams to victory in Cork.
Thanks also to UCC for hosting the competition.
-Jonathan 3/3/08