DCFC Members medal at Veteran Worlds in Croatia
DCFC Member Jim Adams (left) celebrates his Vet 70 Men's Bronze Foil win with fellow Team USA Members. Photo courtesy of USA Fencing.
Results – World Veteran Fencing Championships
Porec, Croatia
September 27 – October 2, 2011
Team USA dominated the 2011 World Veteran Fencing Championships, with the highest overall count of 17 medals (three gold, six silver, and eight bronze medals). While Team USA won the highest total number of medals, international ranking system placed them at #2 behind Great Britain, with four gold medals, and 13 medals overall.
DC Fencers Club member James “Jim” Adams (Rockville, MD) won two medals for Team USA. On Saturday, October 1, Adams won his third career Vet Worlds silver medal in Men’s Epee. The next day, Jim closed out the World Championships by winning the bronze in Veteran 70+ Men’s Foil.
Fellow DCFC club members took top eight results. Kazimieras “Kaz” Campe (Edgewater, MD) took sixth place in Vet 70 Men’s Epee. Campe won the first gold medal for the USA in a world championship competition at the 1998 World Veterans Fencing Championship. He returned to the medals podium in 2010 with a bronze in the 70+ epee category.
In her first time competing at the Veteran Worlds, DCFC Member Valerie Asher (Bethesda, MD) placed sixth in Vet 50 Women’s Epee.
Team USA sent 58 US fencers ages 50 and up to compete in foil, sabre, and epee in three age categories (50s, 60s, and 70s). Fencers from more than 15 countries competed in the annual contest. Among the members of Team USA are 16 former World Veteran medalists and six past World Veteran Champions.
DC Fencers Club congratulates its members and the entire Team USA on their great results at the 2011 World Veteran Fencing Championships.
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