{"id":2068,"date":"2018-01-23T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T17:15:14","slug":"press-release-nb-fencers-win-medals-in-three-events-at-canada-cup-in-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: NB Fencers win medals in three events at Canada Cup in Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Canada Cup tournament held in Quebec City this past weekend (Jan 19-21), New Brunswick fencers brought home one individual<\/b> and two team<\/b> event<\/b> <\/b>medals.<\/p>\n

Raphael Bradley<\/b> of the UNB Fencing Club<\/b> in Fredericton<\/b> won a bronze<\/b> medal in Under-23 Men’s Sabre<\/b>. Bradley had an okay start in his poule of eight, winning 3 matches and losing the other 4. From this result he was seeded 7th in the direct elimination round, where he fenced the #10 ranked fencer, Daniel Potter. Bradley was clearly in top form for this round, as he defeated Potter 15-0, and then went on to fence the #2 ranked fencer, Philip Pitura. Bradley eliminated Pitura 15-11, and then faced Ryan Xu in the semi-finals. The scores started off close in that match but Xu ultimately to pulled ahead and won with a final score of 15-8.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An all-New Brunswick team took the bronze<\/b> medal in the Junior Men’s Epee team<\/b> event<\/b>. The team, consisting of Calum MacDonald, Calum Skidmore, and Nigel Sood<\/b>, all fencers from the Damocles Fencing Club<\/b> in Fredericton<\/b>, won bronze after defeating a team of fencers from the “Pirates” fencing club in Rimouski. The deciding match saw the teams trade the lead back-and-forth several times before Team New Brunswick won with a tight score of 45-44.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The other medal from this tournament came from Saint John<\/b> fencer Yiming Xu<\/b>, of the Fundy Fencing Club<\/b>, for his team’s silver<\/b> medal win in the Junior Men’s Foil team event<\/b>. This team, consisting of Xu and Ontario fencers David Chen-Li, Stuart Robinson and Alexander Zhou, was only defeated in the finals by Ontario’s “Team Ligang” with a score 45-34.<\/p>\n

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These fencers were supported by coach Jim Stevens <\/b>of the UNB Fencing Club, and were accompanied by eight other New Brunswick fencers who competed in men and women’s foil and epee events ranging from Under-15 to Senior.<\/p>\n

Go here<\/a> for more information on the results from this tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Canada Cup tournament held in Quebec City this past weekend (Jan 19-21), New Brunswick fencers brought home one individual and two team event medals. Raphael Bradley of the UNB Fencing Club in Fredericton won a bronze medal in Under-23 Men’s Sabre. Bradley had an okay start in his poule of eight, winning 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fencingnb.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}