Fencing

2015 SEA Games Raguin Delivers a Silver

Fencing proudly delivered a silver medal care of Harlene Raguin in the Women’s Individual

Epee. She lost 11-7 against Vietnam’s Thi Len Tran of Vietnam in the Finals. Tran, 27 the

SEA Games Champion from 2011 defended her title, as Fencing was not included in the

2013 SEA Games. It was the second medal for Fencing after Justine Tinio took silver in the

Women’s Individual Foil yesterday. The 31-year-old Raguin, who stands 5’8 is the 2014 PNG

Champion. But the much smaller Tran at 5’41/2 was too skilled to overcome. Eric Brando II,

Jose Noelito Jr., and Gian Rodriguez all failed to make it to the semi-finals of the Fencing.

Tinio Captures first medal for the Philippines at 2015 SEA Games

‘The Philippines’ took a silver medal in the Fencing; which has not been played at the SEA

Games since 2011. Back then the Philippines won 1 gold and 3 bronzes. 2014 PNG

Champion 19-year-old Justine Gail TINIO took the silver medal behind Wang Wenying of Singapore 15-7 in the Women’s Individual Foil; the Philippines had no medal in this event 4

years ago. In the Semi-Finals, Tinio defeated 2011 SEA Games Champion in this event,

Nguyen Thi Tuoi 15-6.

 

Eric Brando II a SEA Games bronze medalist in 2011 in the Team Sabre made it to the

Quarter Finals, he lost to 2011 SEA Games bronze medalist in this event Yu Peng Kean of

Malaysia 15-11.

 

Gian Franco Rodriguez and Jose Noelito Jr. both made it to the round of 16 in the individual

epee but failed to progress.

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2014 Fencing SEA Championships (Full Results included)

 

Some very positive results for Philippine Fencing from the January meeting.

SEA Fencing 2014

 

As Fencing was not featured in the 2013 SEA Games, the 2014 SEA Fencing Federation

Championships held in January in Putrajaya, Malaysia was used as a gauge for evaluating

these athletes.

 

Seven Countries participated in two age categories (Junior) and (Senior)

 

Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand sent athletes to this

meet. There was also a very small contingent from Cambodia.

 

Note each country fielded around three to four athletes in each event and there were 20-30

participants in each individual event and a high-quality South East Asian level field in these

events.

JUNIORS

 

Nathaniel Perez (silver) Men’s Foil Individual and Justine Gail Tinio (silver) Women’s foil

individual were participating in the Junior division.

 

The Junior Women’s Foil Team which landed a bronze was composed of Gail Tinio, Keren

Pangilinan, Wilhemina Lozada, and Maxine Esteban.

OPEN

Jamie Nicanor and Clichelleyn del Rosario both won individual bronze medals in the

women’s open.

 

The Women’s Foil Team of Jamie Nicanor, Justin Gail Tinio, Keren Pangilinan and

Wilhelmina Lozada took bronze. As did the women’s Epee Team of Anna Gabriella

Estimada, Hanniel Abella, Nicanor, and Pangilinan.

 

The Women’s Saber Team of del Rosario, Nicanor, and Gesiha De Leon took bronze also.

The Men’s saber team of Walbert Mendoza, Gian Carlo Nocom, and Eric Brando II took

silver.

2011 Comparison

 

As there was no fencing played in SEA Games in 2013 will draw data from the 2011 SEA

Games. Walbert Mendoza who was the individual saber champion from 2011 was able to

land silver in the team event but landed 12^th in the individual.

 

Nocom and Brando were part of the bronze medal team in the Men’s Team Saber in the 2011

SEA Games. However, Edmon Velez had been replaced with Mendoza for this meet

 

Jylyn Nicanor was the only remaining member of the 2011 SEA Games team that took the

bronze as Lenny Otadoy and Michelle Brozula had been replaced with Nicanor and De Leon.

 

While in Team Epee the three members of the 2011 Bronze medal team at SEA Games

Madel Galvez, Harlene Orendain and Michelle Brozula had been replaced.

 

In the women’s Sabre, Clichelleyn Del Rosario finished with the bronze. This was behind

THI Thanh Loan Nguyen who was the bronze medalist in Palembang in 2011. The silver

ANN Lee Huimin of Singapore was a new athlete. Nicanor shared the bronze with 2011 SEA

Games Champion Thi Le Dung Nguyen. Diah Permatasari the SEA Games silver medalist in

2011 did not participate.

 

In the women’s Foil, Jamie Nicanor finished with bronze. THI Tuoi Nguyen the 2011 SEA

Games champion won the event. While newcomers Wenying Wang and Cheryl Wong Ye Han

who finished silver and shared bronze were newcomers. Le Thi Bich of Vietnam the 2011

Silver Medalist did not participate. Natasha Abu Bakar who was bronze in Palembang was

15^th and Nunta Chantasuvannasin the shared bronze in Palembang was 5^th.

 

All in all a very positive set of results as this meet was highly competitive with a lot of the

best South East Asian athletes in action. There are a lot of promising talents coming up who

should perform well at the 2015 SEA Games.

 

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