BRONZE FOR CADET MEN'S EPEE TEAM IN NAPLES

The team of Jack Beckley, Oghenegaren Esiovwa-Thompson, Solu Ngoka and Alex Nicholas took bronze at the EFC Cadet Men’s Epee event in Naples at the weekend.

On the first day of the EFC Cadet Epee competition in Naples, the GBR 1 team brought home a bronze medal. The team, featuring Jack Beckley, Oghenegaren Esiovwa-Thompson, Solu Ngoka and Alex Nicholas, were seeded 1st and earned a bye into the tableau of 8.

Their first fight of the day was against Italy 5, opened by Jack Beckley. Both teams began toe-to-toe but GBR 1 soon drew away from the Italian team. Bolstered by an impressive nine-point leg by Alex Nicholas, the score turned into 25-13 to GBR. This lead continued for the rest of the match, with GBR 1 winning 45-27.

GBR 1 then faced Italy 1 in the semi-final. The two teams stayed close for the duration of the match, with Italy maintaining their lead. Although the final score was a 45-37 defeat for GBR, they showed great teamwork.

GBR 1’s final match of the day was once again against Italy, this time their second team. GBR started off with a 0-3 lead, but was soon overtaken after an eight-point leg from Italy’s Pietro de Gaetano, bringing the score to 8-6. The two teams stayed close throughout the match, before Solu Ngoka brought the score to 25-23 in GBR’s favour. The team closed out the match with strong and confident fencing. A final score of 43-37 secured the bronze medal for GBR 1.

Following the win, Solu said via Instagram:

“Thank you to my teammates, the whole GB squad and Sam for coaching over the whole weekend.”

Indiv. Men’s Epee results:	Indiv. Women’s Epee results:
6th: Jack Beckley 7th: Alex Nicholas 19th: Solu Ngoka 39th: Oghenegaren Esiovwa-Thompson 45th: Jonathan Law 62nd: Henry De Bono 65th: Harrison Banks 72nd: Luca Hall 75th: Timur Hursever 77th: Milosz Bekerman 79th: Dylan Helme 88th: James Dunmall 97th: James Fairholme 103rd: Zalan Seno Farago 108th: Henry Bagshaw 113rd: Imad Ahmed 114th: Harry Wright 115th: Harrison Hampton 116th: Casadio Robinson 118th: Dexter Mak	12th: Eilidh Paterson 23rd: Isabella D’Abbraccio 48th: Lea Panyandee-Cappelli 51st: Eleanor Scott 55th: Isabel Pottinger 57th: Evelyn Coe 61st: Deryn Williams 64th: Leena Zikara 65th: Adel Timurkan 68th: Thea Tchalenko 72nd: Alma-Constance Denis-Smith 73rd: Isabella Howser 74th: Annabella Barahona 76th: Maria Lebedeva 79th: Lucinda Fielding 87th: Tilly Coughtrie 89th: Saskia Scholey 95th: Eliana Yunusi-Parikh 101st: Matilda Careless 103rd: Jessica Jamie Thatcher
Men’s Epee Team results:	Women’s Epee Team results:
3rd: GBR 1 6th: GBR 2 11th: GBR 3 12th: GBR 4	7th: GBR 1 8th: GBR 4 (DNF) 11th: GBR 3 12th: GBR 2 (DNF)

Referees Euan Deamer, Victoria Mentor and Rosalind Graham also represented GBR at the event.

Click here to view the full results from Naples.