Wheelchair fencing was developed by Sir Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital and was introduced to the world at the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games. Men and women with amputations, spinal-cord ...

BERNARDSVILLE - Vince Paragano didn’t touch a fencing weapon until he was middle-aged. Now he has so many competition medals, he stores them on necktie racks.

Inkosi, grandson of late NAFDAC Director-General Dora Akinyuli, expressed excitement and inspiration from his achievement.

Those who have dreamed of training in sabre will now have their chance once an all-new fencing academy opens in Westchester.

In singles competition, matches last three minutes or until one fencer scores 15 hits. In team events, three fencers from the ...

Wheelchair fencing was pioneered about half a century later by Ludwig Guttmann at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England ...

Saysunee Jana of Thailand has made Paralympics history at the 2024 Paralympics in France as the first female wheelchair ...

Piers Gilliver won the full set of gold, silver and bronze medals in wheelchair fencing at Tokyo 2020 Piers Gilliver claimed wheelchair fencing silver for Great Britain in the men's sabre A event ...

There are three disciplines in wheelchair fencing based on the type of sword used - the foil, the epee and the sabre. The epee is the heaviest weapon at 770g and is more rigid than the other ...

Piers Gilliver claimed wheelchair fencing silver for Great Britain in the men's sabre A event at the Paralympics in Paris. Gilliver was beaten 15-8 by Germany's Maurice Schmidt in the gold medal ...

Maggie Shealy M’25 was named a Division III Second Team Academic All American by the Col- lege Sports Communicators for the ...

The 24-year-old public policy graduate student competed as a fencer in the 2024 Paralympic Games. Hanssen was the youngest ...