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John
Fethers
Académie
d'Armes du Paris, whose origin dates back as far as the reign of Charles
IX and which received its first privileges from Henri III, shows how
assiduously the science of armes was cultivated by the French
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Maître
d'Armes John E. Fethers |
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Fethers, a Melbourne left-hander became one of the best-known
Australian fencers. He won a silver medal in foil at the
Commonwealth Games in 1950 and 1954. In 1951 he won the Australian
Championships in all three weapons. A feat that has only been
repeated once, many years later by Greg Benko. John won the amateur
foil championships of Britain in 1954 and was a finalist finishing
8th in the World Foil Championships in 1955. The 1955 World
Championships was the introduction of the new weapon -electric foil,
this championships was in preparation for the Melbourne Olympic
Games of 1956 which was the first time electric foil fencing was
held in an Olympics. In 1959 he turned professional and won
the foil championships of Britain over 5 successive years,
1961-5. In 1961 he won the French Challenge Duval, an open
event judged over a five-year period. Maitre Fethers became
National Coach of Australia in 1965.
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J.Fethers
lunge |
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The
photo at top was used as a postage stamp cir. 1955
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