Chinese double foils opponents on day one at Wheelchair Fencing world champs
By Nick Butler
August 7 - Chinese competitors took two gold medals in the foil and sabre categories on the opening day of the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing World Championships, as Hong Kong and Italy also secured titles at the Syma Event and Congress Centrein Budapest.
August 7 - Chinese competitors took two gold medals in the foil and sabre categories on the opening day of the International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing World Championships, as Hong Kong and Italy also secured titles at the Syma Event and Congress Centrein Budapest.
July 24 - Four members of the United States Paralympic squad that competed at London 2012 head the roster of athletes chosen to compete at next month's Wheelchair Fencing World Championships in Budapest.
June 14 - Following successive Grand Prix victories, 16-year-old Italian wheelchair fencer Beatrice Vio has been named as the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athlete of the Month for May, after gaining 60 per cent of the public vote.
January 23 - British wheelchair fencing champion Adrian Derbyshire has claimed that his career could be bought to a premature end after burglars stole specialised fencing equipment from his home valued at around £30,000 ($47,590/€35,760).
May 11 - The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has named six debutants in their fencing squad competing at this summer's Paralympic Games in London.
August 18 - Five members of Team USA have become the first athletes from America to qualify for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
OCTOBER 20 - Fencing has appeared in every Olympics since the rebirth of the Games in 1896 and was a major success in Beijing but, as DAVID OWEN reports, a power struggle to run the sport has developed involving a Russian billionaire with links to Premiership club Arsenal
JUNE 20 - HILARY PHILBIN has been appointed as the competition manager for fencing by London 2012, it was announced today.
