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2025-26 GBR RESULTS ROUND-UP

This article forms part of a series of reports accompanying the 2025-26 BF Annual Report.      

Note: This report covers competitions from August 2025 to July 2026. While some fall outside the Financial year, from a fencing perspective, this is considered the period of Major Championships across all the age groups: Cadets, Juniors, U23s, and Seniors.

In this report:

  • Major Championships Medal Summary
  • Para Fencing World Championships
  • Junior & Cadet European & World Championships
  • U23 European Championships
  • Senior European & World Championships
  • Other Medals
  • World Rankings

Major Championships Medal Summary

At the 2025 Para Fencing World Championships, Iksan, Dimitri Coutya won gold in  Men’s Foil B and bronze in Men’s Epee B, with the Men’s foil team winning silver.

At the 2026 Junior European Championships. Tbilisi: David Sosnov and Mohammed Belbouab won gold and silver, respectively in the Junior Men’s Foil, whilst Amelie Tsang (Junior Women’s Foil), and Tristan Lumineau (Junior Men’s Epee), both brought home bronze in the individual events. The Junior Men’s Foil Team also won bronze.

Para Fencing World Championships, Iksan, Korea

At the 2025 Para Fencing World Championships, Iksan, Dimitri Coutya won gold in  Men’s Foil B and Bronze in Men’s Epee B.

The Men’s Foil team (Piers Gilliver, Oliver Lam-Watson, Josh Waddell, Dimitri Coutya) came away with silver, narrowly missed gold in a hard-fought final against China. The same team finished 4th in the Men’s Epee team, losing by 44-45 to Iraq in the semi-final, and 40-45 to China in the Bronze medal match.

GBR’s new Women’s Sabre team. Gemma Collis, Emily Holder, Justine Moore and Susan Seddon-Cowell put up an excellent fight throughout the day by claiming victories against Brazil and France, losing to Hungary by only one point, eventually coming 10th overall. This represented a great first result for this team.

Full Report Here

Cadet (U17) and Junior (U20) European Championships, Tbilisi, Georgia:

Full squads were selected across the six weapons, with several athletes fencing, both cadets and juniors.

  • David Sosnov: Gold – Ind Junior Men’s Foil.
  • Mohammed Belbouab: Silver – Ind Junior Men’s Foil.
  • Tristan Lumineau: Bronze – Junior Men’s Epee.
  • Amelie Tsang: Bronze – Junior Women’s Foil.
  • Team: Bronze – Junior Men’s Foil – David Sosnov, David Kelly, Callum Penman & Mohammed Belbouab

Other notable performances:

  • Callum Penman: 6th – Junior Men’s Foil
  • Mohammed Belbouab: 6th – Cadet Men’s Foil

Full Report Here

Cadet (U17) and Junior (U20) World  Championships Rio, Brazil:

Junior and Cadet squads across the six weapons were selected. There is no cadet team event, and only cadets meeting qualification standards were selected. With positive performances this year, a full cadet squad was selected.

Notable Performances – Individual:

  • Tristan Lumineau: 7th – Ind Junior Men’s Epee.
  • David Sosnov: 9th – Ind Junior Men’s Foil
  • William Buxton: 8th – Ind Cadet Men’s Sabre
  • Mary Maguire: 11th – Ind Cadet Women’s Foil
  • Eilidh Paterson: 18th Ind Cadet Women’s Epee
  • David Kelly: 7th – Ind Cadet Men’s Foil.

Notable Performances – Team:

  • Junior Men’s Foil: 4th – David Sosnov, David Kelly, Callum Penman, Mohammed Belbouab
  • Junior Women’s Foil: 5th – Rachael Adams. Megan Elliott, Isabella Johnson, Amelie Tsang

Full Report Here 

Senior European Championships, Antony, France

A reduced squad competed at the Senior Europeans, reflecting the drive to increase standards across the weapons. A number of younger athletes gained their first Senior Major Champions experience.

Our athletes recorded a number of notable individual results, with Jaimie Cook and David Sosnov securing strong finishes in Senior Men’s Foil, placing 10th and 12th respectively, while Harry Bird added to the results with an 18th place finish. These individual performances resulted in all three climbing the international ranking list to 29th, 34th & 88th, respectively. Susan Sica reached the last 32 of the Women’s Epee competition.

In the team competitions, Great Britain’s standout performance came in Men’s Foil, where the British quartet of Jaimie Cook, David Sosnov, Harry Bird, and Joe Donaghue recorded an impressive run to finish 8th overall, which saw them closing the gap in the FIE Team Rankings.

Notable Performances:

  • Jaimie Cook 10th SMF
  • David Sosnov 12th SMF
  • Harry Bird 18th SMF
  • Susan Sica 29th SWE
  • Men’s Foil Team 8th – Joe Donaghue, Harry Bird, David Sosnov & Jaimie Cook

Full Report Here

Senior World Championships, Hong Kong

Our athletes recorded a number of notable individual results, with Jaimie Cook, David Sosnov, and Amelie Tsang securing slots in the second day of their respective competitions. Both Jaimie Cook and David Sosnov progressed to the last 32, leaving them with placings of 27th and 29th, respectively, for the competition. Jaimie’s final FIE ranking for the season was 29th, and David’s 31st.

Meanwhile in the Senior Women’s Foil competition, Amelie Tsang fought valiantly through poules and a close final direct elimination fight against Zhang from Canada to earn a place in the round of 64 on day two. There, she met Italian and world number one Martina Favaretto; whilst she was defeated 15-5, Amelie can hold her head up high as she fought with both alacrity and tenacity through the competition to finish 64th overall, and ended the season with a FIE ranking of 119th.

In the team competition, Great Britain’s standout tournament performance came in Men’s Epee, where the British quartet of James Jeal, Cador Beautyman, Will East, and Benjamin Andrews, led by GBR Coach Oana Puiu, recorded an impressive run. This included a nail-biting 45-44 defeat of world number one-ranked team, Japan, to finish 14th overall, and saw them close the gap in the FIE team rankings.

Full Results Here

Total Medals

FIE/EFC Medals

WPF Medals

Senior World Cups

Weapon/category Gold Silver Bronze Total
Men’s Foil B 4 0 0 4
Men’s Epee A 1 1 1 3
Men’s Epee B 2 0 2 4
Women’s Epee A 0 2 2 4
Women’s Sabre A 0 0 2 2
Men’s Sabre B 1 0 0 1
Men’s Sabre A 0 0 1 1
TOTAL 8 3 8 19

Notable World Rankings

FIE Rankings

Seniors (top 100)

  • Jaimie Cook 29th SMF
  • David Sosnov 31st SMF
  • Harry Bird 79th SMF
  • Caitlin Maxwell 98th SWS

Juniors (top 100)

  • Keira D-Sallows 69th JWS
  • Hui Xin Sezille 70th JWS
  • Maya Sutton 76th JWS
  • Mohammed Belbouab 19th JMF
  • David Kelly 60th JMF
  • Tristan Lumineau 6th JME
  • Sameer Sunder-Rajan 36th JME

World Para Fencing Rankings

(Note: WPF only provide live rankings with no defined season start and finish, data below as at September 2026)

Teams

  • Mixed Foil Team – 3
  • Mixed Epee Team -6
  • Women’s Sabre Team – 8
  • Men’s Sabre Team – 5

Individuals (top 20)

  • Piers Gilliver (Cat A, Men’s): Epee 8 –
  • Gemma Collis (Cat A, Men’s): Sabre 6, Epee 2
  • Dimitri Coutya (Cat B, Men’s): Foil 2, Sabre 17, Epee 6
  • Oliver Lam Watson (Cat A, Men’s): Sabre 18, Foil 11, Epee 6
  • Emily Holder (Cat B, Women’s): Epee 17, Sabre 19, Foil 14

BF would like to thank:

  • Our funding partners (Sport England and UK Sport) and all the organisations that we work with to create and deliver the services of the ADP.  Including the Home Nation Fencing bodies, The True Athlete Project and the EIS.
  • Those organisations that have supported weapons, the BF Charity, The Epee Club and personal sponsors
  • All the coaches and athlete support personnel who have engaged in the programme and support the athletes in their pathway journeys.
  • Our small but hard-working team of volunteers, including team managers and welfare officers, who support activities both domestically and internationally.
  • The parents and families of athletes who give so much to support the athletes.

And finally, we would like to thank all the athletes who continue to dedicate themselves to developing and achieving excellence in and through fencing.

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