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FENCING
Queen's Fencers take Silver and Bronze medals.

Rookie Lily Jiang took the silver medal in Senior Women's Sabre. Bronze medals were won by Will Tran (Men's Sabre) and Janelle Yu (Senior Women's Épeé).

Queen's Fencers hosted 391 athletes at the 28th Queen's Open Fencing tournament in the Bartlett and Ross gyms of the PEC this weekend. As in previous years, the competition attracted top-ranked competitors from Ontario and Quebec, so it provided excellent competitive experience for the more than 50 returning and beginning members of the Queen's Varsity Fencing Club who participated.

The top Queen's performances were:

Rookie Lily Jiang (Women's Sabre), silver medal
Will Tran (Men's Sabre), bronze medal
Janelle Yu (Women's Épeé), bronze medal

Other top ten finishes were

Women's Foil Anna Rogers 6/47
Women's Épeé Sarah Kim 8/37
Women's Sabre Helen Percival 6/37
Julia Meerakker 8/37
Ivana Baboolal 9/37
Men's Épeé Al Quinsey 5/50
Men's Sabre Jimmy Wintle 9/47

Each of the following Queen's athletes deserves credit for winning the first round of the direct eliminations in his first open competition having begun fencing this fall:

Men's Foil Felix Wong 63/66, Jack Qiao 54/66, , Jonathan Yeung 51/66
Men's Épeé Adam Meyer 30/50
Men's Sabre Sloan Sainas 29/47, Michael Danese 31/47

In addition to the senior events, the Fencing Open offered competitions in Cadet (under 17) and Veterans (over 40) categories.

The next competition for Queen's Fencers is the RMC tournament, November 2-3.