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2006-01-29 16:20 - 2006 Commonwealth Junior Champs

Posted by Brillmart

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The final "Halt!" was called on Sunday 29th January 2006, followed by the closing ceremony. To each and everyone our warmest congratulations and best wishes.

... Kia Kaha ... " Stay Strong / Stand Tall " .

Special congratulations to our bronze medal winners:

* Men's Epee Team - Andreas Sesun, Calum Cuncannon, Landon Watt

* Women's Foil Team - Monique Coleman, Emily Hilton, Sara Qi and Amy Silk

* Individual Women's Foil - Monique Coleman

Bravo! Well done

So we say our good-byes and a final massive THANK YOU to our hosts the Fencing Association of India. To the organisers in Chennai the Tamil Nadu Fencing Association thank you for a job well done. To the referees, thank you, and all the other teams we really appreciated your participation and best wishes.

To all the team members thank you and especially to the Coaches, Manager, Supporters, (Sue Grant-Taylor, Barry More, Steve Clarke Francis and Tony Cuncannon) and all the parent helpers and clubs back in New Zealand - well done.

Results of our fencers below ---- > click for more

Updated 29/01/06 22:20

Summary only - For full results go to http://www.cjfc2006.tn.nic.in/default.htm

Sunday 29 Jan Last day of competition
Men's Foil Team ( M Hoskins, C Cuncannon, L Watt, H Clarke), Seeded 6th against 3rd Seed Scotland defeated in the quarter final 21-45

Saturday 28th Jan
Men's Epee Team
A very last minute inclusion of a NZ Junior Men's Epee Team, allowed because of the request of the Organsiers and the agreemant of Landon Watt to participate in the epee teams event with borrowed equipment had NZ seeded 7th for the event.

The first round match against second seeded India A was delayed to alllow for televised coverage.

The New Zealand Juior Men's Epee Team of Andreas Sesun, Calum Cuncannon and Landon Watt rose to the occaision and won the match 45-41 to reach the semi-final and were assured of a medal.

Australia (6th seed) had beaten 3rd seeded Wales in another upset. The match off against Australia saw our Tasman rivals take the 45-26 victory

Friday 27 Jan
Women's Foil Team - 8 teams:
NZ Beats Wales 44-43
NZ lost to top seed England in semi-final 45-19
NZ places 3rd=

Individual Men's Epee (30 fencers)
1st James THORNTON (England)
2rd Martin CAMILLERI (Australia)
3rd= Tom BENNETT (England)
3rd= Sume SAINATHA (India)

NZ fencers final placing:
19th A Sesun
22nd C Cuncannon

Incomplete DE Tableau of 32
A Sesun Seeded 13th lost 11-15 to Dharmend SINGH (India)
C Cuncannon seeded 19th lost 8-15 to Rhys MELIA (Wales).

Men's Epee poule results
Round 1
Sesun 3V, 2D
C Cuncannon 2V, 3D

Thursday 26th Jan
Women's Foil 33 fencers - Medalists:
1st Celia SHILES (England)
2nd TAY Yu Ling (Singapore)
3rd= Monique COLEMAN (New Zealand)
3rd= Ciel MEPSTEAD (England)
Monique Coleman wins bronze loosing to TAY Yu Ling 15-12

Final Placing of other NZ fencers
15th Amy SILK
16th Sara QI
24th Emily HILTON

Also a major upset - Sara Qi takes out 3rd seed Loidam Devi MOIRANGTEHM (India) in the first round of the DE - Qi joins Silk and Coleman through to the last 16. E Hilton out in first round of DE.

Qi and Silk bow out in last 16. Coleman beats 10th seed Lydia JOHNSON (Wales) 15-4 to reach last 8 and fences 2nd seed NG Ruth Yi Lin (Singapore) for a place in the semi final.

Monique Coleman reached semi-final - medal assured, beating 2nd seed NG Ruth Yi Lin (Singapore) 13-12 for a place in the semi final for a chance at gold.

Round one results
Sara Qi; 0v, 5D - 30th seed for DE
A Silk; 3V, 3D - 18th seed for DE
M Coleman; 5V, 1D - 7th seed for DE
E Hilton; 2V, 4D - 23rd seed for DE

Wednesday 26th Final placings
Men’s Foil Total 33 fencers
1st Jo SLOWIACZEK (AUSTRALIA)
2nd Charles HEMERY (AUSTRALIA)
3rd= KENT Christopher (ENGLAND)
3rd= Dean WILLIAMS (AUSTRALIA)

NZ Fencers
14th Michael HOSKINS
16th Landon WATT
23rd Calum CUNCANNON
26th Hamish Clarke

Men's Foil Pools results
H Clarke Round 1: 1V, 4D
C Cuncannon Round 1: 2V, 4D
M Hoskins Round 1: 2V, 3D
L Watt Round 1: 2V, 4D

Women’s Epee 27 fencers
1st Corrina LAWRENCE (ENGLAND)
2nd Abbi MATTHEWS (ENGLAND)
3rd= Ayse Nur HIKMET (MALAYSIA)
3rd= Ruchi TRIKHA (INDIA)

NZ fencer final place
24th Sara Qi

Sara Qi Round 1: 2V, 4D

Tuesday 25th jan
Women’s Sabre
Gold Christie WADDINGTON – (SCOTLAND)
Silver Sarah ELLIS (NORTHERN IRELAND)
Bronze Jessica DAVIES Jessica (WALES)
Bronze NEWMAN Holly (WALES)
No NZ fencers competed in this event

SCHEDULE:
The last Day of Competition Sunday 29th January 2006.

Comments

2006-01-26 21:38 - Kerryn

Go Monique!