OPS Epee Club

OPS Epee Club 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

Commonwealth team bronze for James!!
12/08/2026

Commonwealth team bronze for James!!

09/08/2026

Just a note to watch out for OPS old boy Will Ferguson fencing for Wales (U23 and Men's) and James Gowen (Men's) at the Commonwealths in Lagos,

Will fencing in U23s today and is 3rd after the poules

Fencing Time does not seem to be working very well.

A really good day for OPS Men at the Norfolk Open with three club linked fencers into the last 8 and Eric going on to ta...
27/07/2026

A really good day for OPS Men at the Norfolk Open with three club linked fencers into the last 8 and Eric going on to take Silver.

After 2 rounds of poules Eric lead the way for club linked fencers in 4th, with Robin, Caleb, George P, Andy L and Tim B close behind in 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th. With Ben in 16th, Jean-Luc 18th and Oliver 19th all in the top half of the seedings for the DE. Others were Steve D 27th, Gaz 30th, Nigel 34th, Robbo 45th.

With the top 15 getting byes into the last 32, Ben won by an impressive 15-1 score-line, with Robbo beating the seeding to take out the 20th seed 15-12, with Oli winning 15-6, Jean-Luc 15-7 and Stephen D 15-5. Nigel was our only last 64 victim, losing to Gaz.

It was a great showing with 12 into the DEs, Ben lost of 15-14 in the closest of matches, Andy from 9th seed had a nasty draw with the dangerous Leon Kill and after a cagey match lost out 8-6, George won 15-12 and Robin 15-4, with Robbo after his great last 64 fight, losing out to Megan Upton who was in the men's/mixed event. Eric and Olli had 15-10 victories, but Steve lost out 15-9. Caleb and Tim went through 15-12 and 15-7, but Jean-Luc lost 15-13, with Gaz being knocked out by 2nd seed and eventual winner Antoine Belot.

In the 16 George P was taken out by Leon Kill, and Oli went out to Darren Milne. Robin, Eric went through and Caleb beat Tim B. With 3 club fencers still into the last 8, Eric defeated Robin 15-13, but Caleb was another victim of Antoine's Epee to go out.

Eric won his Semi final 15-13, before losing to Antoine in the Final to go home with silver.

Well done to everyone

Final placings

2nd Erc L
6th Robin
7th Caleb
9th George P
10th Tim B
15th Oli A
17th Andy L
20th Ben H
21st Jean-Luc
23rd Steve D
26th Gaz M
32nd Robbo
39th Nigel

Some amazing performances in the Women's event at the Norfolk Open with Olga leaving with a medal.In the Women's event O...
27/07/2026

Some amazing performances in the Women's event at the Norfolk Open with Olga leaving with a medal.

In the Women's event Olga led the way for OPS fencers in the poules with 8 wins from 10 fights to go into the DEs seeded 3rd, with Fiona 5th, Carol 7th, Grace 10th and Karen 12th. Karen did amazingly well at her first competition and had a 5-4 loss in one match in the 2nd round of poules.

In the Last 16 DEs Karen lost to Fiona, Carol beat Grace in a tight match. In the last 8 Olga was very strong winning 15-1, but Fiona and Carol were unable to progress. In the semi-final Olga was again strong but was unable to overcome the strong and experienced Marge Oniye, who is 34 places higher than Olga on the senior GBR rankings..

Final placings -
3rd - Olga C
5th - Fiona T
7th - Carol A
10th - Grace G
12th Karen L

21/07/2026

We have a fair number of fencers competing at the weekend at the Norfolk Open.

Good Luck to Carol A, Olga, Grace, Fiona T and Karen in the Women’s Open and Tim B, Stephen D, Eric L, Jean-Luc, Andrew L, Gaz, George P & Robbo…

No Fencing Time link up as yet. If anyone finds it please add to comments..

21/07/2026

Good luck to Jess Rogerson (Varley) at the World Fencing Championships in Hong Kong tomorrow. Starting 4.15 BST

Jess went to Oundle School, lived locally and attended OPS for some time before going off to join the Olympic Pentathlon Training Group at Bath University.

Having competed at European and World Championships in Pentathlon, and winning the World Laser Run championships, this will be her Worlds for Fencing.

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Bronze for Robbo at the Wenlock Olympian Fencing Tournament 2026 Plate event.5 wins out of 10 in the poules, then they o...
12/07/2026

Bronze for Robbo at the Wenlock Olympian Fencing Tournament 2026 Plate event.

5 wins out of 10 in the poules, then they only used 2nd round of DE seeding and the first round poules do not seem to have gone on Fencing Time. Losing 12-9 in a close fight to Jeff Conover in the main DE.

Had bye through the 16 in the plate, won 15-13 against Darren Duell, before losing to No 1 seed Peter James 15-12 to take the bronze.

Sounds like a very long day (7 hours), but good to get some 'bling'..

Well Done Robbo

Results at - https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/DB245C05B38D46E4A7D99E6550D794F5

10/07/2026

We have a lone fencer competing at the Cardiff Cadet BRC 'B' event at the weekend, with Layla competing in the Girls' event on Sunday.

Good Luck

Results at -

So it does not get lost in the results from last weekend.Well done again to Olga for her stunning 2nd place at the Cambr...
08/07/2026

So it does not get lost in the results from last weekend.

Well done again to Olga for her stunning 2nd place at the Cambridge Open Air Open on Sunday.

Winning 6 of 8 fights in the poule, she went into the DE as 3rd seed.

The DEs went well with a bye through the last 16, a 15-5 in the last 8 and a close 15-14 win against the 2nd seed in the semis.

The final against Julie Henson, who in 2018 was representing GBR at the senior European championship , was equally close with the match getting to 14-14, but eventually the experience of Julie took her to a 15-14 win.

An amazing performance by Olga against a fencer who has fenced internationally for years and has British Senior and Commonwealth individual medals to her name.

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PE84AG

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