Bath-based GB internationals win fantastic five titles at 2025 British Fencing Para-Fencing National Championships

28 April 2025

Paralympic medallist Oliver Lam-Watson and University of Bath student Susie Seddon-Cowell won five gold medals between them at the 2025 British Fencing Para-Fencing National Championships in Sheffield.

Lam-Watson (pictured top), who trains at the Wheelchair Fencing National Training Centre based at the University’s Sports Training Village, dominated the men’s Category A events to secure the epee, foil and sabre titles.

Fellow GB international Seddon-Cowell, representing University of Bath Fencing Club, enjoyed double delight in the women’s Category A contests as she won epee and sabre gold. It continues an excellent season for the Team Bath Breakthrough Programme student-athlete, who combines para fencing with a PhD Research Programme in Mechanical Engineering at the University.

A photo of University of Bath Fencing Club's Susie Seddon-Cowell, second from left, holding a trophy and wearing a gold medal after winning the Category A epee title at the 2025 British Fencing Para-Fencing National Championships. She is flanked either side by her fellow medallists and they are in front of British Fencing-branded boards featuring the numbers 2, 1 and 3 to represent finishing positions on the podium.
University of Bath Fencing Club’s Susie Seddon-Cowell, second from left, and fellow GB international Justine Moore, second from right, with the women’s epee medallists at the 2025 British Fencing Para-Fencing National Championships. PICTURES: British Fencing

Justine Moore – who, like Lam-Watson and Seddon-Cowell, has been selected for the University-based Wheelchair Fencing World Class Programme (WCP) for 2025-26 – won epee gold and foil silver in the Category B events.

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