• More than 100,000 fencing bouts are held annually across Canada
• Over 50 fencing tournaments are organized every year across the country
• The dueling scenes by Darth Vader in the movie "Star Wars", and the fencing scenes from "Mask of Zorro" were choreographed and performed by Bob Anderson, a fencing master and previous Technical Director of the Canadian Fencing Federation
• Fencing can be an all-season sport, practiced twelve (12) months of the year
• Fencers as young as eight (8) years or as old as eighty-eight (88) can enjoy this sport
• Canada regularly has fencer attend the FIE World Veterans Championships
• The Canadian Fencing Federation is the direct franchise holder with the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime, the Canadian Olympic Association and Sport Canada
• Sherraine Schalm of Brooks, Alberta, has Canada's best placing at a World Championships, 6th at the 1999 World Championships in Seoul, Korea.
• Sherraine Schalm won her first World Cup in 2000 at Seville, Spain.
• Jean-Marc Chouinard won his first World Cup in 1987 at Caracas, Venezuela.
• Jean-Marc Chouinard has won a total of 6 World Cups during his fencing career; '87 Caracas, '90 Barcelona, '90 Legnano, '94 Sydney, '95 Amadora, '95 Buenos Aires.
• Canadian Epeeist Jean-Pierre Seguin of Saskatoon won the 2002 Cadet (Under 17 years) World Championships in Antalya, Turkey
• Canadian Foilist Joshua McGuire of Hamilton won the 2000 Cadet (Under 17 years) World Championship in South Bend, USA.
• Canadian Epeeist Laurie Shong of Vancouver won the 1988 Cadet (Under 17 years) World Championships in Cabries, France
• Canada's First Olympic Fencer was Prof. Percy E. Nebbs, in 1908 at the Games in London England.
• Canada's First Female Olympic Fencer was Miss. Joan Archibald in 1932.
• Our Best Ever Men's result at an Olympic games since our incorporation was Michel Dessureault in 1984, Los Angeles, 10th.
• Our Best Ever Women's result at an Olympic games since our incorporation was Thalie Tremblay in 1992, Barcelona, 14th.
• Annually, national team fencers will represent Canada at over forty (40) foreign competitions, in countries spanning all continents
• Over 870,000 possible actions in epee alone were calculated by Hungarian Maître Imre Vass, fencing master of several Olympic and World champion fencers and author of Epee Fencing
• Canadian military pilots in training were required to participate in Fencing for the development of hand-eye coordination and reflexes
• Donna Saworski won the "President's Cup" for Women's Sabre (the equivalent of the Women's Sabre World Championships) in 1998, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

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