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

Izzy had a great day at the British Under 20 championships, taking top seed after the poules with 6 wins out of 6.In an ...
13/09/2026

Izzy had a great day at the British Under 20 championships, taking top seed after the poules with 6 wins out of 6.

In an event where lots of the top fencers messed up their poules somewhat, Izzy’s draw was not as easy as a top seed should get, but she worked her way through the last 32 and last 16, which was against Reya Farlam, who fenced for GB at the Senior World championships, with ruthless efficiency 15-8 and 15-9.

The other des were not quite as clinical, but championship fencing is all about wins, and 15-14, 15-11 and 15-12 wins took her to her first British Junior Title.

13/09/2026

A long weekend in Nottingham with Cadet and Junior Championships, GB Cup and Under 14 BRC ‘A’ event.

Saturday

GB Cup Women - Ramona won one poule match, then won her first De 15-13, before losing to eventual winner Dora Ji 15-9 to come 8th.

GB Cup Men - Robbo won 2 of 5 poule fights, with Euan Irvine winning 2 of 4. Robbo lost his first DE 15-12 and Euan lost 15-13. Euan finished 10th with Robbo 11th.

Cadet Boys - Sam Rossiter made the cut with one win in the Poules, but lost out to Lucas Farlam, however as Lucas won the Under 20 Men’s event on Sunday, that was to be expected unfortunately, finishing 47th.

Cadet Girls - Layla Erses was competitive throughout her poule with all but one fight going to the final hit, she won 2 bouts to go into the DEs as 36th seed, where she met Eliana Yunusi-Parikh who was on the GBR squad all last season. Leyla led the whole math, but was not able to finish the job, losing on the last hit 15-14. Layla finished 39th.

Sunday

Junior Men’s - Josh, Robin and Caleb were fencing, with Josh being cut after the poules, with Robin and Caleb winning 4 of 6 fights. Robin lost out in the last 64, with Caleb winning that round, but losing to the No 1 seed 15-12, after leading for most of the match. Josh finished 53rd, Robin 33rd and Caleb 16th.

Junior Women’s - Anisa had a strong start to win her first match in the poules, and that was enough to make the cut. In the DE it was close, but she lost out 15-13 in her first match, finishing 38th. Izzy had a good day, post to follow.

08/09/2026

Sept 2026 Senior British Rankings

Women's
Rank Name
10 VARLEY Jessica *
25 HOWSER Izzy (C)
71 CARTER Olga (V)
130 ERSES Leyla
177 Harper Sophia
179 TALBOT Anisa (J)
189 HALL Frances
222 ASHMAN Carol (V)
246 BOTH Ramona
246 GOURLAY Grace
246 LAKE Karen

Men's
Rank Name
27 GOWEN James *
36 LAUGA Eric (V)*
38 FERGUSON William *
49 LUCKMAN Samuel *
61 MATTHEWS Caleb
77 DOMEK Stephen (V)
96 Hart Ben
106 BEWS William (J)
111 IRVINE Euan
115 MORRIS Gaz (V)*
121 JANET Jean-luc (V)
129 ROBINSON Michael (V)
130 SILK Robin (J)
162 MIDDLETON Nigel
188 LUCKMAN ANDREW (V)
192 BISSELL Tim (V)
197 ATKINSON Oliver (J)
341 Hunter Josh (J)
450 Carrick Dean
533 TICKLE Sydney
533 SZUKILOJC Albert

* Occasional visitors, or previous club fencers

Well done to those fencing this weekend at the Elite Epee at Moulton College and the BRC 'A' Junior Event in Rickmanswor...
06/09/2026

Well done to those fencing this weekend at the Elite Epee at Moulton College and the BRC 'A' Junior Event in Rickmansworth.

At Moulton on Saturday Frankie Fowler had a decent day, making the last 8 and almost completing an amazing comeback, after being about 6 hits behind to lose out 12-11 to finish 7th.

In the Cadet Boy's event, Thomas Hunt finished 5th, with Sam Rossiter 6th and Adam K 10th, with Layla fencing well in the Cadet Girls to finish 5th. In a strong Under 12 Boys event Chris Domek finished 9th, with his brother Alex winning a DE match against the 9th seed to make the last 16, which he lead into the 3rd period, but could not close out to the eventual silver medallist, to finish 16th.

On Saturday in Rickmansworth Robin Silk started well in the BRC Junior Event, taking 4th seed after the poules and won his first 2 matches to make the last 12, but lost to Sameer and Lucas (both 15-13) to finish 9th.

On Sunday at Rickmansworth, Izzy fought in the Junior Women's Event taking 8th seed into the DE, having a bye through the last 64 and 2 wins she made the top 12, but was unable to proceed further losing to the No 1 seed after the poules, and then losing out 15-14 in the repechage to finish 11th.

In The Men's Open at Moulton, well done to Eric Lauga in taking Bronze, and credit to Joseph Wells who came at the bottom of the results list, but scored hits in every match he fenced and was very close to winning one bout.
Men's places
3rd Eric Lauga
15th Steve Domek
17th George Partridge
21st Jean-Luc Janet
25th Euan Irvine
32nd Robbo
33rd Joseph Wells

The Northamptonshire county championships are taking place on Saturday 12th September at Moulton College.This would be a...
31/08/2026

The Northamptonshire county championships are taking place on Saturday 12th September at Moulton College.

This would be a great event for all our senior fencers to attend.

Clashes with the Cadet/Junior British Championships on the same weekend.

Info poster attached.

Just a reminder that we have no club tonight due to the bank holiday.Enjoy your relaxing evening.Last week we had a numb...
31/08/2026

Just a reminder that we have no club tonight due to the bank holiday.

Enjoy your relaxing evening.

Last week we had a number of the fencers from the Summer Performance camp attending, which made it an even more diverse group than usual. Great fun.

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

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