Welsh Veteran National Championships 2026 Report

Please find the report from the Vet Nationals that took place over the weekend of 5th/6th September at CAF.

We had the full portfolio of events taking place through the weekend and as such were able to award the master’s at arms trophy for both women and men as well as award the ‘Spirit of the Veterans’ prize voted for by the Veterans community.

Please find below the medal winners and a link to the full results, here: results

	Women	Men
Foil	GOLD: Maggie Myers SILVER: Cath Fisher BRONZE: Dawn Townsend, Lyn Robinson	GOLD: Velota Sung SILVER: Marc Burkhalter BRONZE: Alex White, Oliver Massey
Epee	GOLD: Cath Bowd SILVER: Lyn Robinson BRONZE: Pam Fairweather, Pat Shepherd-Foster	GOLD: Marc Burkhalter SILVER: Steven Bateman BRONZE: Rob Brooks, Rupert Nute
Sabre	GOLD: Lyn Robinson SILVER: Saskia Russell BRONZE: Pat Shepherd-Foster, Maggie Myers	GOLD: Ceri Thomas SILVER: Tom Martin BRONZE: Martin Baldwin, Marc Burkhalter

The Master at Arms trophy was awarded as follows

Women – Lyn Robinson
Men – Marc Burkhalter

The winner of the ‘Spirit of the Veterans’ award was Oliver ‘Medals’ Massey acknowledging his amazing performance at the Vet Commonwealths in Lagos as well as his incredible support and representation for Wales across all the weapons throughout the years. A very worthy winner!

Please also find some pictures from the event as well as the updated Vet Rankings for review, here: Vet Rankings

This weekend is the Vet Winton team competition, and I wish all who are fencing for us the very best!