Anna Bentley
Anna Bentley was one of two British females confirmed for London 2012 after the second wave of fencing selections in June. One of two Scots on the ten-strong team, the other Richard Kruse, Bentley learnt to fence at Norwich High School for Girls and suppor...
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Corinna Lawrence
Corinna Lawrence enjoyed a fine year in 2009 winning Commonwealth junior gold, Australian Youth Olympic Festival silver and European junior bronze – the latter the best ever result by a British woman at that event. She won Commonwealth junior gold fo...
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Husayn Rosowsky
The only male fencer chosen during the second wave of Olympic selections, Husayn Rosowsky joins Richard Kruse and James Davis in competing in the foil for London 2012. He won bronze at the World Cadet Championships in Italy in 2008 and in December 2011 too...
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James Davis
James Davis is the youngest member of the British team. Davis, who fights left-handed, began fencing aged just four and is studying for a degree in psychology at Middlesex University. An avid Manchester United FC fan, Davis is the only Briton ever to win a...
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James Honeybone
James Honeybone is Britain’s sole male sabre fencer at London 2012 and made his senior international debut in 2008. He goes through a meticulous routine the night before a competition, laying out all the clothes he is going to wear the next day in the...
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Louise Bond-Williams
Louise Bond-Williams began fencing at Chipping Campden School. She suffered multiple injuries, including five broken ribs and a dislocated collar bone, the latter requiring two operations, following a car crash in 2008. She received a scholarship to Ohio S...
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Natalia Sheppard
Natalia Sheppard was the second Brit – the first being Richard Kruse – to secure automatic selection for London 2012 after winning the final European qualifying event in Slovakia in April 2012. Having started fencing aged nine, she took a nine-...
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Richard Kruse
Richard Kruse was the first British fencer to qualify outright for London 2012 after winning a satellite event in Copenhagen in March – Natalia Sheppard became the second after the final European qualifying event in Bratislava a month later. Kruse&rs...
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Sophie Troiano
Sophie Troiano joined Anna Bentley in being chosen during the second wave of selections, and both join Natalia Sheppard as the British fencers in the foil at London 2012. She followed her father into the sport and suffered a stress fracture of her right sh...
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Sophie Williams
Sophie Williams joined Louise Bond-Williams as the female Brits chosen for the sabre at London 2012; at 21 she was the youngest female member of Team GB’s 2012 fencing squad. Williams was chosen to be part of the British Olympic Ambition 2012 program...
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