The Epée Club

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/obituaries-1/clive-bentley-purchase-1939-2026

Clive Bentley Purchase 1939 - 2026 — The Epée Club It is with great sadness that we report the death of long time club member Clive Purchase who passed away on the 13th May 2026.

Epée Club members turned out in force for the recent British Veterans Fencing 2026 Age Group Championships held at the Harvey Haddon Sports Complex in Nottingham on the 21st and 22nd March.
Leading the pack was Georgina Usher and Hugh Kernohan who secured gold medals in the women’s cat 2 (50+) epée and men’s cat 3 (60+) epée, respectively.
Close on their heels with a silver medal in the men’s cat 2 (50+) epée was Greg Allen.
Completing the medal table with a collection of bronze medals were: Anton Pollard, men’s epée cat 4 (70+); Neal Mallett, men’s epée cat 3 (60+); John Prime, men’s epée cat 2 (50+): Susan Uff with bronze medals in the women’s cat 4 (70+) epée and foil.
Also competing were: Sue Brooks, women’s cat 4 (70+) epée and foil; Steve Bateman, men’s epée cat 1 (40+); Phil Barbasiewic, men’s epée cat 1 (40+); Tim Buzwell, men’s epée cat 2 (50+); Neale Thomas, men’s epée cat 3 (60+).
Also in attendance giving vital support was Rob Brooks, and doing the armoury was Peter Huggins.
Congratulation to all of our medal winners.

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/stand-out-performances-in-budapest

Stand out performances in Budapest. — The Epée Club Congratulations go to Dimitri Coutya and Epée Club member Piers Gilliver for winning gold in the Men’s Epée Cat B and Men’s Epee Cat A respectively in the Budapest Para World Cup on the 19th - 22nd March. Dimitri swept the board with gold medals in the individual Men’s Epée, Foil and Sabre ...

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/guildford-european-veterans-fencing-competition-2026

Guildford European Veterans Fencing Competition 2026 — The Epée Club Despite the snow storms, wind and rain that battered the country over the weekend, eleven members of the Epee Club battled their way to Guildford for the first veterans fencing competition of 2026.

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/ec-members-take-medals-at-veteran-world-championships

EC Members take medals at Veteran World Championships — The Epée Club Members of the Epee Club took part in this years Veteran’s World Fencing Championships in Bahrain, held between 12th and 21st November. Leading the way for the ladies with a gold and bronze medal……….

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/hurlingham-club-journal

Duelling at the Hurlingham — The Epée Club Fencing continued to be a regular Hurlingham event and even billed alongside polo and musical entertainments. Minutes show, for instance, a fencing competition in June 1925 “by the No 7 Croquet Lawn with music by the Hurlingham Orchestra” and the following year with fencing by the “South end o...

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/2025-marmalade

2025 Marmalade — The Epée Club Saturday 30th August saw a robust group of members, family and guests descend upon the small village of Iffley, Oxford, at the invitation of club member Edmund Gray for the 2025 Marmalade Trophy.

More photos from Sunday's Lavradio

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/2025-lavradio-completes-our-summer-of-celebration

2025 Lavradio completes our summer of celebration. — The Epée Club Sunday 27th July saw our final outing of the summer, this year, at Hurlingham for the 2025 Lavradio Cup.

https://www.epeeclub.org.uk/news/ranelagh-cup-2025-continues-our-summer-of-celebration

Ranelagh Cup 2025 Continues Our Summer Of Celebration — The Epée Club In this our 125th celebration year, Saturday 5th July saw a goodly number of fencers take to the piste, at Hurlingham, to compete for this year’s Ranelagh Cup. Despite the leaden skies, and constant threat of rain, seven fencers fought a close and thrilling poule.