2004 Australian Universities Championsips Results

Women's Epee Individual: Silver to Tracey Green, 5th to Melissa Yeung
Women's Foil Individual: Gold to Tracey Green, 4th to Melissa Yeung
Women's Foil Teams: Gold to Tracey Green, Melissa Yeung and Nicole Lutze
Women's Sabre Individual: Bronze to Tracey Green
Men's Foil Teams: 7th to Michael Howard, Alex Hoyte, Deon Poncini and Stephen Wedlock
Men's Sabre Individual: Bronze to James Fordham
Men's Sabre Teams: Bronze to James Fordham, Michael Howard, Deon Poncini and Stephen Wedlock

UTS Fencers receive Union Blues

In an awards dinner held on 6 December, UTS Fencers Tracey Green and Michael Howard were two of only six people to be awarded with a Full Blue for their achievements in sport.

The Union Blue symbolises the highest level of sporting achievement that a student can win and is consequently highly sought after.

Tracey and Michael are part of a strong team that has gone to the Australian University Championships currently being held in Melbourne at Monash University.

Pan Pacific Masters Games

A strong team of UTS Members competed in the Pan Pacific Masters on the Gold Coast November 12 - 14 and came home with a hoard of medals.

Women's 40+ Individual Sabre: Silver to Julie Seggie
Women's 40+ Team Sabre: Gold to Ann Burn and Julie Seggie
Women's 30+ Individual Sabre:Silver to Melissa Yeung
Women's 30+ Team Sabre:Gold to Melissa Yeung
Men's 30+ Individual Sabre: Gold to James Fordham, Silver to Michael Howard, Bronze to Dave Hoffman
Men's 30+ Team Sabre: Gold to Dave Hoffman, James Fordham and Michael Howard
Women's 40+ Individual Epee: Silver to Julie Seggie
Women's 30+ Individual Epee: Gold to Adele Haswell, Bronze to Julie Seggie
Women's 30+ Team Epee: Gold to Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie and Melissa Yeung
Men's 40+ Individual Epee: Bronze to Keith White
Women's 40+ Individual Foil: Silver to Julie Seggie
Men's 30+ Individual Foil: Gold to Steve Augoloupis
Men's 30+ Team Foil: Gold to Steve Augoloupis
Italian Relay Teams Gold to Adele Haswell and Melissa Yeung

State Team Championships

UTS teams have competed strongly at the State Team Championships winning 3 gold medals and 2 silver.

Men's Epee: A UTS composite team captained by club member Peter Chicco won the Men's Epee event on the 24th October.
Men's Foil: With our 2 top fencers missing from the team due to injuries, the men's foil team comprising Alex Carioti, Peter Chicco, Joe Slowiaczek and Ashley Yue lost a hard fought match by one hit to the winning team and ending up with the silver medal.
Women's Epee: Also with 2 of our top fencers missing, Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie and Melissa Yeung lost by only 3 hits to Sydney University and placed 2nd.
Women's Foil: The team of Tracey Green, Georgia Read, Anna Slowiaczek and Dione Vosper defended their title from last year to win the event.
Men's Sabre: James Fordham, David Hoffman, Michael Howard and Michael Read also defended the title for UTS to win gold.

UTS Sabreurs dominate New Zealand National Championships

Three UTS Club Members took a trip to New Zealand for their recent National Championships and dominated the competition in the individual and team events as you can see by the results below:

Men's Sabre Individual: Gold to James Fordham, Silver to Michael Howard and 5th to Michael Read.
Men's Sabre Teams: Gold to the NSW (UTS) Team comprising the above three fencers.

Photo of the UTS team at the NZ National Championships.

UTS fencers compete in Novice State Championships

UTS has added another State title to their collection with Charles Carroll winning the Novice State Championships on October 10th. This is Charles' second Novice competition victory.

Also competing from UTS where Ian Bryant, David Longfield and Long Nguyen who ended up 9th, 10th and 17th respectively.

UTS Fencing Club wins Foil and Sabre Club of the Year

Australian Fencing Federation awards UTS with Foil and Sabre Club of the Year.

The awards topped off a very successful National Championships for the club as can be seen by the results below:

Men's Foil Individual: Gold to Frank Bartolillo and 6th to Steve Augoloupis
Women's Sabre Individual: 6th to Melissa Yeung
Women's Sabre Teams: Silver to Melissa Yeung
Men's Foil Teams: Gold to Frank Bartolillo and Steve Augoloupis
Women's Epee Individual: Bronze to Adele Haswell
Women's Epee Teams: Silver to Adele Haswell
Men's Sabre Individual: Silver to James Fordham, Bronze to Michael Howard, 6th to Keiran Thompson, 7th to Dave Hoffman, 8th to Michael Read
Women's Foil Individual: Bronze to Tracey Green
Women's Foil Teams: Gold to Tracey Green and Georgia Read
Men's Sabre Teams: Silver to James Fordham, Michael Howard and Keiran Thompson
Women's Veteran Foil Individual: Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Men's Veteran Foil Individual: 5th to Volker Hrovat and 6th to Peter Witkop
Women's Veteran Epee Individual: Gold to Julie Seggie and Silver to Anna Slowiaczek
Men's Veteran Epee Individual: Bronze to Volker Hrovat and 8th to Duncan Fairweather
Women's Veteran Sabre Individual: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek

National Championships

UTS fencers have excelled so far at the Australian National Championships winning 2 golds, 2 silver and 1 bronze so far.

Frank Bartolillo won the Individual Men's Foil for a record equalling 6th time, with Steve Augoloupis finishing in 6th position. They then were both selected in the NSW team that went on to win the Men's Foil Team Event.

Melissa Yeung also made the final of the Women's Sabre event ending up 6th and was included on the team that came away with the silver medal.

In Women's Epee, Adele Haswell won the bronze medal in the individual event and the silver in the team event.

We have 4 strong hopes for the Men's Sabre event as well as a couple in the Women's Foil which are both being held tomorrow.

For full results information please visit the Australian Fencing Events website.

World Veteran Championships

Volker Hrovat represented Australia at the World Veteran Championships in Krems, Austria, in September. The number of competitors was buoyed by the European location with a 100% increase from last year’s event. With a high standard of fencers competing, Volker excelled in both foil and epee. In Men's Epee he was placed 11th and in Foil 14th.

NSW State Sabre Championships

UTS has finished with 5 out of 6 State Titles after the State Sabre Championships on September 5th.

Mens State Open Sabre Championships - 1st James Fordham, 2nd Keiran Thompson, 3rd David Hoffman and Michael Howard
Women's State Open Sabre Championships - 1st Melissa Yeung

NSW State Foil Championships

UTS has won 3 out of 4 State titles contested so far and has kept it all in the family.

Adele Haswell won the State Women's Epee title last weekend with her husband and sister winning the Men's and Women's Foil titles respectively on Sunday 29th August. UTS also came away with a Silver and a Bronze.

Mens State Open Foil Championships - 1st Steve Augoloupis, 3rd Joe Slowiaczek
Women's State Open Foil Championships - 1st Dione Vosper, 2nd Melissa Yeung

The State Open Sabre Championships will be held on 5 September.

Eszter Hortobagyi competes in Athens

On Friday 27th August, Eszter competed in 35 degree heat in the Athens Olympics Modern Pentathlon Event. This is the 2nd time that Women's Pentathlon has been included in the Olympics. Pentathlon involves 5 sports, Fencing, Shooting, Swimming, Riding and Running. Of the 5 sports, Ezster's best result was 5th in the Riding Event with an overall final result of 20th.

NSW State Epee Championships

Mens and Womens State Open and Veteran Epee Championships were held on Sunday 22nd August.

UTS ended up with 2 gold and 4 bronze medals across all 3 events contested - the Women's Veteran event wasn't held due to only 2 competitors being present.

Mens State Open Epee Championships - 3rd Joe Slowiaczek
Mens State Veteran Epee Championships - 1st Volker Hrovat, 3rd Dave Andrews
Women's State Open Epee Championships - 1st Adele Haswell, 3rd Sian Munro and Julie Seggie

On Sunday 28th, the State Foil Championships are being held with several medal favourites in both the Mens and Womens events competing for UTS.

Frank Bartolillo has a tough match in Athens.

Frank who was seeded number 25 going into the competition drew number 7 seed Hanxiong Wu from China. Frank started well getting the first hit and being down only 2 hits 9-7 at the first break. Some missed opportunities with off target and non-landing hits by Frank led the final bout score to be 15-8 in Wu's favour.

Frank's final standing was 27th at his first Olympics Games.