A DARLINGTON fencer has picked up a national title at the first time of asking.
Beth Davidson, 40, won the women’s sabre title at her first attempt at the British Veterans’ Fencing Championships in Gloucester.
The format for these championships, which are open to all fencers over the age of 40, is two rounds of poules, in which groups of six fence each other, followed by direct elimination.
This stage involves scoring 10 hits within six minutes with a one-minute rest after three minutes.
After winning all her bouts in the poules, Davidson emerged as the number two seed and quickly swept through the field to reach the semi-finals, where she met Caron Hale, who had knocked out the top seed and reigning world veterans’ champion, Jane Hutchison. But Davidson was too fast and accurate for her opponent, winning 10-5 to claim her first veterans’ title.
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