by Peter Gustafsson | Oct 15, 2018 | Refereeing
I just came home from a sabre refereeing seminar, held by none other than Medhat El-Bakry, referee of the Men’s sabre final in the 2016 Olympic games. As far as teaching sabre refereeing, it does not get better than that. He had prepared a very thorough seminar...
by Peter Gustafsson | Sep 26, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
Well, I will be darned! The following blog post is about sport, but not about fencing per se. Consider this your notice. UEFA, the governing body for association football in Europe, has decided to implement a competition format in which the poules are filled with...
by Peter Gustafsson | Sep 20, 2018 | Refereeing
After the sabre refereeing seminar that I described recently, there was a sabre event the day after. The three students of the sabre refereeing course had their practical examination during this event, and all three of them passed. Let me here express my...
by Peter Gustafsson | Sep 15, 2018 | Refereeing
I have not been updating this blog at anywhere near the rate that it should be, but here goes: I visited a sabre refereeing seminar held by a three-weapon FIE referee yesterday. Left home a bit before noon Friday, and back again Saturday eight o´clock. Two and a half...
by Peter Gustafsson | Aug 5, 2018 | FIE, Organizational
There was a time when Asian fencing results in big international competitions was all about three major countries, but that they were reasonably equally matched compared to each other. Not so anymore. The Wuxi World Championships have decisively proven that South...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 22, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
För en dryg månad sedan avhölls den första tävlingen där Colley-Gustafssons tävlingssystem använts, i Malmö. 25 fäktare ställde upp, varav 19 manliga och 6 kvinnliga. För att se till att alla fick fäkta mycket så kördes tävlingen i könsblandat format fram till...
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