Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship 2011 begins today – Fencing Preview
The Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship 2011 is scheduled to start today and last until 12 March in Thailand. The event covers all six fencing disciplines in both the male and female sections of the Junior and Cadet categories. Both the individual
and team events will also be conducted at the tournament.
According the competition schedule, on 5 March, the individual events of cadet boy’s epee, girl’s foil, boy’s sabre will be held followed by an opening ceremony and a subsequent prize distribution to the day’s winners.
The 6th of March will also feature cadet individual events namely cadet boy’s foil, girl’s epee and girl’s sabre followed by a final and a conclusive prize distribution.
On the 7th of March, the cadet team events will take place which include the boy’s epee, girl’s foil, boy’s sabre and final bouts. Similarly, on 8
March will also be the cadet team event’s day where boy’s foil, girl’s epee, girl’s sabre and final shall end up with a distribution ceremony.
From 9 March onwards, all the days will conduct the junior fencing events for individual and team, as just two individual events of men’s epee and women’s foil will get complete. The 10th of March will feature junior individual men’s
sabre and women’s epee will be commenced followed by two more individual events of junior men’s foil and women’s sabre on the 11th of March.
Team events will be conducted within the last two days of the tournament. On 12 March, the junior men’s epee team, men’s sabre team and women’s foil team will take place and championship will be finalised on the conclusive three team events namely junior
men’s foil, women’s epee and women’s sabre, as a final and the ultimate prize distribution ceremony will end the Asian Junior and Cadet Fencing Championship.
India, being the member nation of the Fencing Confederation of Asia and Oceania Fencing Confederation, has sent 24 fencers to participate in the event. Among them, seven boys and six girls will take part in the Cadet fencing and four boys and seven girls
will participate in the junior fencing.
This troop accompanies six officials, as four of them are coaches Ibomcha Singh, Surjit, W. Voleshor Singh and Sagar Suresh along with Armor Deepak Singh and physiotherapist Nitin Kansal.
Similarly, Australia has sent a fencing group of 33 players to Bangkok along with three coaches for each weapon discipline. They are Steven Lim for Sabre, David Mok for Foil and Paul Crook for Epee. Three more officials are the part of the troop as a team
manager Elli Wellings and two assistant managers Michelle McCauslan and Mayson Sung. The players include Australia’s Junior sports stars Lishan Sung and Rachael Soutar who will compete in the international level for the first time.
Following the AJCFC 2011, the next stop for the Junior fencers is Jordan, where the World Junior Fencing Championships will be conducted from 29 March to 6 April in all the weapon disciplines.
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