Programmes and Competitions

Target Audience: Primary 3 to 6 students, Singapore citizens
Day & Time: 2 sessions a week (Wed 7.00pm - 9.00pm and Sat 9.30am - 11.30am), approximately 20 lessons/quarter

Cost: $250/quarter. Subsidy is available for students on the MOE Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS)

For more information and registration, please visit https://tinyurl.com/SSPLTF

Contact Details:

Ms Loo Zhao Rong Luan (General Manager, Fencing Academy)

E: loo_zhao_rong_luan@sportsschool.edu.sg

Singapore Sports School student-athletes from the Fencing Academy have opportunities to compete at Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships as well as Senior Fencing Championships at the World, Asian, Commonwealth and Southeast Asian levels through selection by Fencing Singapore.

Sports School's top performer at these competitions is alumna Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier, who won the Women's Cadet Foil bronze medal at the 2017 World Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 2022, both student-athlete Juliet Heng Jie Min as well as alumna Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier came in Top 32 at the World Fencing Championships in Cairo, Egypt. That was the first time any Singaporean fencer had made it to Top 32 at the World Fencing Championships.

Over the years, our Fencing student-athletes have also gone on to represent Singapore at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, Asian Games as well as Olympic Games. Alumna Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier represented Singapore at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. Together with alumna Wong Yu Rong Tatiana, both won the Women’s Foil team bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the 2022 SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, our then current student-athletes came back with 2 individual bronze medals, 3 team gold medals and 1 team bronze medal.

The Asian Cadet Circuit was started by the Fencing Confederation of Asia in 2017 with competitions in several Asian countries. Since its inception, our student-athletes have consistently participated in the Asian Cadet Circuit stops organised in China, Taipei and Thailand each year. Our student-athletes also participate in the stop organised locally by Fencing Singapore.

Sports School sends its fencers for the FIE Satellite in Women’s Foil organised by Singapore, which saw participation from countries such as France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Taipei and Thailand at the inaugural event in 2022. This competition offers very good exposure to high-level senior athletes, which is especially beneficial for our older student-athletes. Student-athlete, CHEUNG Kemei, won the gold medal at the inaugural event in 2022.

Sports School’s Fencing Academy regularly invites local fencing clubs to its premises to provide more sparring opportunities for its student-athletes. Sports School fencers get to spar with opponents of comparable or better abilities.