Pascal Tesch

Antony is getting ready to host the European Championships and preparing to deliver a fantastic showcase for fencing.

A perfect occasion to visit the training session, meet the athletes, and motivate young fencers to come support their champions—and even join the event as volunteers!

Back in Luxembourg for EuroFenceLeague: great fencing, great audience, and an amazing team behind the scenes – and in the end, rivals at the bar, toasting sportsmanship and the spirit of our sport.

Youth Championships are intense, emotionally and technically. But there is only one person who will leave as champion, and every round has 50% losers.
In a nutshell, losing is part of the process or rephrasing it: always come back winning one more time than you are losing.

Constructive meeting of the Executive Committee in Tbilisi. proud to see that all the commissions are working hard to make fencing better .
at the Fringe meeting with Prof Tine de Moor and Pat Aienuro from E&D commission to support the femfence project stay tuned for more

Leaving Africa with one smiling eye and one crying eye.Bravo to the Senegalese Fencing Federation and President Cécile Faye for an excellently organised Junior Sabre World Cup in Dakar, already clearly on track for the YOG at the end of the year.Proud to see my friends from , a federation I had the honour to support in its early stages and which is now a very active member of our African fencing family.Next stop: Tbilisi for the European zonals.

I’ve said this many times: fencing is so much more than just the sport itself.
When I was in Nairobi, Kenya, helping to found the federation, I met a young woman who was fascinated by fencing: Esther Wanjiku, aka “Pekena”.
Fencing gave Esther energy and inspiration. She fell in love with the sport, stayed around competitions, and kept giving a helping hand – even when she was no longer actively training.
Today, she sees fencing through her artist’s eyes and brings it back to life in oil on canvas. A sport that once kept her dreaming has helped her become the artist she is now .

Meeting at the Hellenic Olympic Committee with Prof. Charis Tsolakis, President of the International Olympic Academy, and Ippokratis Manoudakis, President of the Hellenic Fencing Federation.
Inspiring discussions, great ideas — and one of the key projects from my election program is moving closer to becoming reality: Formal Education in Fencing.My sincere thanks to for his continuous support and to the President of for his leadership and initiative.Stay tuned for more news soon!

RIP Colette Flesch, a Grande Dame of Fencing from Luxembourg – Olympic fencer at Rome, Tokyo and Mexico City, bronze medal at 1958 Junior Worlds.
From piste to parliament as Luxembourg City's first female mayor and Foreign Minister; she never lost touch: FLE President twice for a total of 9 years, always at our tournaments awarding medals with that warm smile.
Visionary for women's rights.
Leading by example. Farewell, Colette.

Inspection visit in Tbilisi with FIE Event Manager , EFC DT President Filip Vukovic and EFC Secretary General Jacek Slupski.
President , Secreatry General and Technical Director of the Georgian Fencing Federation are ready to bring the FIE playbook to life.​
Closing the day by awarding medals to the Junior Women’s Foil World Cup winners – always a pleasure when official and administrative work is directly linked to real fencing on the piste.
Congrats to the winners and to the respective federations for the work done upfront.
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Honored to hold a short laudation at the official launch of the 120th anniversary celebrations of the French Fencing Federation during this special CIP week in Paris. A privilege to witness the nail‑biting foil finals at Stade Pierre de Coubertin, in the presence of Île‑de‑France Vice‑President Patrick Karam, and to discover a new fencing‑inspired watch, imagined, designed and engineered by two passionate fencers themselves.
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