February 2, 2015

Queen's captures back-to-back OUA Women's Fencing Championship banners

TORONTO, Ont. - The OUA Women's Fencing Championship concluded on Sunday after two days of fierce competition. Individual events took place on Saturday, while team events ran on the following day.

The Queen's Gaels went home as the overall team champions for the second year in a row, topping the competition with 276 points. RMC, with 220 points, won silver, and the Carleton Ravens finished with the bronze at 216.

Individually for the Gaels, Lily Jiang and Tiffany Chan captured individual bronze medals in sabre and foil, respectively. Queen's also took home a team gold medal in sabre and a bronze in foil.

RMC captured silver medals in foil and epee, but was held off the individual medal podiums,

Two Carleton Ravens found the top of the individual podiums when Adrienne Sukunda won gold in sabre, and Isabelle Gauthier won epee. Emese Dukai of the Ravens also took home a medal, winning bronze in epee. It was an impressive all-round tournament for the Ravens, who also won team gold in epee and a team bronze in sabre.

Rounding out the team competition, Western won the gold medal for foil.

Alexandra Lyn won the Ottawa Gee-Gees lone gold medal, winning foil.

Full results from the weekend are listed below.

Individual Results

Foil

Gold: Alexandra Lyn (Ottawa)

Silver: Vivian Poon (Western)

Bronze: Tiffany Chan (Queen's)

Epée

Gold: Isabelle Gauthier (Carleton)

Silver: Donna Vakalis (Toronto)

Bronze: Emese Dukai (Carleton)