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Lead Coach - Chris Howser, Level 4 BF coach
Coach - Kate Howser

Intermediate to elite fencers welcome any evening, children and adults

OPS Club meet on
Monday- Peterborough School, Thorpe Road, Peterborough, PE3 6AP
Tuesday - Stamford School
Thursday - Oundle School Sports Centre, Milton Road, Oundle, PE8 4AG

07/11/2026

Senior Rankings November 26

Women's Rankings
Rank Name
12 VARLEY Jessica *
23 HOWSER Izzy (J)
70 CARTER Olga (V)
127 ERSES Leyla (C)
223 ASHMAN Carol (V)
238 BOTH Ramona (V)
254 GOURLAY Grace
254 LAKE Karen (V)

Men's
Rank Name
23 GOWEN James *
28 LAUGA Eric (V)*
36 FERGUSON William *
55 MATTHEWS Caleb*
69 DOMEK Stephen (V)
86 LUCKMAN Samuel *
102 Hart Ben
116 BEWS William (J)
119 IRVINE Euan
122 ROBINSON Michael (V)
126 SILK Robin (J)
131 JANET Jean-luc (V)
148 MORRIS Gaz (V)*
191 LUCKMAN ANDREW (V)
195 BISSELL Tim (V)
198 MIDDLETON Nigel
251 PARTRIDGE George
262 ATKINSON Oliver (J)
340 Hunter Josh (J)
354 TICKLE Sydney
455 Carrick Dean
526 WELLS Joseph (J)

* Occasional visitors, or previous club fencers

07/11/2026

Good Luck to club fencers at the Welsh Open this weekend.

Olga and Izzy today and Will tomorrow, as well as past club fencers James, Eric and any others attending.

Results on Fencing Time -

02/11/2026

Well done to Madeline (U12), Frankie (U14) who and Layla (Women’s Open) on medalling at the Elite Epee ‘Big Weekend’ at Oundle School.

Full club results -

U12 Girls Bronze Madeline P
U12 Girls 5 Anna E-S
U12 Girls 6 Sophia B

U14 Girls Bronze Frankie F

Cadet Girls 16 Leyla E
Cadet Girls 35 Frankie F

Women's Open Bronze Leyla E
Women's Open 5 Olga C

U12 Boys 5 Noah W
U12 Biys 6 Chris D

U14 Boys 15 James B
U14 Boys 20 Alex D

Cadet Boys 14 Thomas H
Cadet Boys 25 Sam R

Men's Open 14 Stephen D
Men's Open 21 Robbo
Men's Open 23 Marty C
Men's Open 25 Joseph W

20/10/2026

Next weekend we have Frankie fencing at the U14 BRC 'B' event in York, with the London Open (Miller Hallet/Milner Barry) taking place at Leon Paul for our seniors, with Jess, Izzy, Olga in the women's, with Steve D, Euan I, Eric L and Will B in the Men's event.

Results
BRC U14 York - https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/01D51973652C45C58310BE52A0F11BF6

London Open -
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/7375815C7BF847BC81896F910E2C6978

20/10/2026

We had a fair few fencers at events last weekend.

Layla learnt a huge amount and though did not win a fight at the Cadet EFC event in Budapest, with 355 entrants and had 3 matches go to 5-4, so got cut after the first round. With one of those 5-4s being against the event 11th placed Pole.

Robbo attended the Leon Paul GBR Cup Open, winning 3 of 6 fights in the poules to go straight through to the last 16 as 8th seed, but was beaten 15-13 to finish 11th.

At the Elite Epee in London, Frankie had one of those poules that with a bit of luck, could have been really good, winning 3 and losing 3, but 2 of those on priority minutes. With a bye to the last 16 as 9th seed, she again took the match to priority minute, but lost out again, this time 11-10 to finish 11th.

In the Elite Epee Open events, Steve D won 3 of 6 in the poules, to go 27th into the poules, but lost out to fellow veteran Will Miller in the last 64 to finish 33rd, in the Women's Olga won 2 of 5 in the poules, but lost out 15-14 in the last 16 against the 6th seed Alexandra Moor to finish 11th.

19/10/2026

Congratulations to Izzy for her first Junior (Under 20) World Cup team selection for the Novi Sad (Serbia) event.

Though she was selected for a Junior World Cup earlier in the year, this will be the first she can actually attend and the first she has been selected for the team, as there is only 1 team per country in Junior World Cup events.

12/10/2026

There is a great opportunity to learn about Epee Refereeing ln the local area and if you want, gain a Level 2 Refereeing qualification.

There is the Theory Course, online taking place on Tuesday 20th October, followed by Level 2 Practical assessments at the Elite Epee 'Big Weekend' at Oundle School on the weekend of 31st October/1st November, where there are 8 practical assessment spots available each day.

There is no lower age limit for the online theory course, so it is great for younger fencers and even their parents to get to know a bit more about refereeing.

Those attending the practical assessments much be 14 or over on the day of the assessment.

Apply at

11/10/2026

Eric in team action today at the Veteran World Championship.

As 3rd seeds they had a bye through the l32, then a solid win against Austria, USA next.

10/10/2026

There are a couple of events on this weekend, as well as Eric at the Worlds.

At the RAF Open, after winning a combined 5 of 8 fights in the Women’s poules, Olga was 5th of 15, but unfortunately could not win in the last 16 to finish 9th.

In the Mens, Paul G had a couple of far from friendly poules, winning 1 of 10 bouts, before losing out to Zac Wheeler in the last 64 to finish 34th.
Gaz won 7 of 10 fights in the poules to go into the de as an impressive 9th seed, but lost out in the last 32 to finish 17th.
Steve D won 5 of 10 poule fights to go into the DEs mid-field, but 15-13, 15-11, 15-10 and 15-13 wins took him to the final, where he lost out to take silver against Arthur Bennet who was the event’s 2nd seed at the start of the day.

At the Cadet BRC ‘A’ event in LondonFrankie had a great poule, considering she has so many years left in the age-group, winning 3 of 6 fights, with Layla winning 2 in a tricky poule. Sod’s Law had them meeting in the last 64, which Layla won to make the last 32.

Layla drew 5th seed, Eliana Y-P, in the last 32, who she narrowly lost to at the British Cadet champs, and again lost in a tight 15-13 match to drop into the repacharge where she lost 15-11 to Leon Paul’s Carman C-R.

Frankie finished 38th, with Layla 31st.

09/10/2026

Good Luck to Eric L at the World Veteran Championships tomorrow in the 50+ age-group.

Results at -

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