Bath Voice Sports News: success for fencers in the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships

Fencing News: Piers Gilliver successfully defended his Wheelchair Fencing World Championships epee title as he and Dimitri Coutya brought home four medals from Italy between them to their University of Bath training base in the contest earlier this autumn.
Training partner Coutya, reached the Category B epee final again in Terni winning silver 15-10 in a defeat to China’s Benjun Qin.
The World Championships were the last major competition before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, where Gilliver and Coutya – both coached by Peter Rome – will hope to achieve success.
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