Craig Harkins
Craig has been fencing since he saw Peter Westbrook win a bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics. Craig has covered the sport of fencing since 1995 via articles and newsletters on Fencing.Net. He has most recently re-entered competitive fencing in the Vet40 age category.
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Corble Cup clarifies Women’s Saber Olympic Qualification picture
- By Craig Harkins
- . February 28, 2012
Over the past few weeks the qualification picture for the 2012 Olympic Games has become clearer for Women’s Saber. With her 2nd place finish in

USA Fencing Future Stars Camp and Program
- By Craig Harkins
- . February 17, 2012
USA Fencing announced a new training camp designated to be open to the top Y14 fencers in the country and named this the “Future Stars”

Letter From Romania – American Fencing is Something Special
- By Craig Harkins
- . February 15, 2012
International fencing gives a strange picture of the world. We spend weekends in suburbs of major cities and in towns most people have never heard of.

Men’s Epee Olympic Qualifying Update
- By Craig Harkins
- . February 14, 2012
Bas Verwijlen won the Grand Prix event in Doha to claim the top spot in the FIE World Rankings and 2nd in the Adjusted Olympic Rankings (AOR). The tournament was worth 1.5 times the normal world cup points and is one of the last 3 events in the qualifying window.

Classical Historical or SCA Fencing – What are they?
- By Craig Harkins
- . February 9, 2012
This post came out of one of the forum threads and I thought it made for a somewhat decent overview of some of the different