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Windy City Fencing

The Premier Epee Fencing Club in Chicago.

We train all ages in epee fencing at our clubhouse in the Menomenee Club's Drucker Center in Lincoln Park, with successful programs for both beginning and experienced fencers. Whether you want to give fencing a try, are looking for a place to fence socially, or aspire to compete at the highest level of the sport, Windy City Fencing has a home for you!

01/13/2026

Jan 2026,
JUNIOR OLYMPICS,KANSAS CITY

Double medal for Alexander Mitev- this time in Juniors ... WOW ....In competition of 366 fencers Alex made the podium placing 7th...

Congratulations to him,his parents ,coaches and whole WCF team!!!

Another amazing performance by Alina Zhao finishing 13th in Junior WE with 263 on the strip.......Way to go Alina....!!!
Ana Beckman fenced solid to place 21st respectfully....

Kidos to Leon Dhal,Sam Borisenko and Lawson Gravis for earning National points at Juniors event!!!

Fantastic job Windy City Fencing !!

01/11/2026

2026 Junior Olympics,Kansas City

Congratulations to our medalist Alexander Mitev ,who placed 5th at the day 2 of the championship,as well as to his parents ,team and whole coaching crew!

Well done Alex!!
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/EF26973FED524797B71ADA0F7966AA84

Let's go WCF!

10/05/2025

Salt Lake City
October NAC 2025

A great weekend so far for Windy City:

Our own Lason Graves placed in top 8 at Cadets division going true very,very hard bouts on the way there!!!
Congrats to him,his parents, personal coach Igor Kholopov and whole coaching staff,and Team!
Well done Lawson!!

Also amazing job for rest of the club fencers earnings National points:

-John Ziegler 24th in D1... Wow!!!!
- Sam Borisenko top 32 cadets
- Ana Backman 19th in D1

One more day tomorrow,and good luck everyone!
Go WCF!!

09/30/2025

And one more amazing weekend for Windy City Fencing
At Premier Challenge last weeked our older kids got us some hardware!

Ana Beckman medaled 2 times Silver in Junior and D1A.
John Ziegler and Alexander Mitev medaled as well in Juniors (top 5th and 6th) and Mitev claimed medal in Cadest(6th ) and John finished 13 respectively!!
Kudos to younger generation fencers Balty Rosado and Sam Borisenko for the hard , competitive fencing as well!

Great job everyone!

09/26/2025

Latest results!

Our Youths rock!
No particular order from the last 7 days!!!

Zahra Aneziokoro (2nd ) and Abby Tismenski (5th) ,Sonia TALANDZEVICIUS(9th loosing to a teammate ) in SYC -Motor city!
Balty Rosado just medaled (3rd) at Premier Challenge SYC in NY!!

WAY TO GO KIDOS!
GO WCF!!!!

07/06/2025

2025 Summer Nationals, Milwaukee,WI

After a several days of amazing competition of our older fencers ,earning great results, National points and showing strong performance,today our youth 10 made us sooooo proud!

Youth 10 Men Epee (143 on the strip)

Congratulations to our 2 medalist !
- Tomas TALANDZEVICIUS WINNING SILER
- Thiesson DUCHNOWSKI finishing 7th!

Hands up for Max Liu for finishing 23-rd ,but loosing to a teammate!!
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/B80BE5FD642F475991CB01B7186F6DDB

In Y10 girls Juju showed up strong making top 32 as well (24th out of 107)

Congratulations Windy City parents,coaches Ania Garina and Sergiy Kravchenko and everyone involved!!
❤️💪❤️💪👍💪💪💪

07/02/2025

2025 Summer Nationals
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Wow !!! What a day we had today!
3 MEDALS IN THE BASKET!!

At Cadets Men Epee Alexander Mitev reached his first podium in competition of 315 (!!!!!) fencers!! Alexander fought hard at any of his bouts to claim his first Nationals Cadets medal!

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/821606C0FE9F40EF8344B186781E3784

In Vet 70 our own Coach Mark medaled again,placing 6th and AND SECURED HIS VETERANS WORLD TEAM SPOT....
YEAAAAA MAKR ( also happy fencer on the images to prove:-)))) ).
WAY TO GO MARK. YOU ARE UNSTOPPABLE!!

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/535D7B41CBF3450DA0AAA73C180D0255

In Vet 40 Jim Conklin made his first Nationals Final as well ,and proudly stepped on the podium!!
We are so proud of Jim,who picked up Epee first time a few years ago at Windy City with zero experiences!!! Here he is now!!!

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/4348CF6E89474C5395A6CE17BB516CA5

What an amazing attachments for all WCF coaches,parents and family!!

Let's keep on going!!!

06/29/2025

2025 Windy City Annual Party
-class of 2025
-Pre-Nationals
-End of season

Congratulations to our graduation class of 2025! 3 more out of the nest ,but we are sending them away with tons of warm fillings,wishes and happiness!

Hands up for:
-Ben O'Donnell going to YALE
-Tate Nguyen going to Indiana University
-Mete Taskiran going to Michigan State

Go guys go! You will be amazing out there!
Good luck with all of your new adventure!!

06/09/2025

Let's give it up for our youngest fecers , showing an amazing potential and grive for fencing!

With 26 youngsters(ages 11 and under) on the strip we know: Our future is bringing!

https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/ab31faf9-9f7b-488a-aa15-9b76c27fc4b4/results

Congratulations for everyone involved from the Youth 10,Youth 14 and to the Seniors fencers competing this last weekend at WIndy City Fencing events!!!

https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/2aaf84f1-3b12-4353-873f-0eb6b6ee5f92/results

Kudos to Balty Rosado for earning A ranking on his first year of Youth 14 (only 14 years old).
Way to go Balty!!!

https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/809BC77CE0314B63A784E4C731683EAA

04/21/2025

Thank you everyone for coming to our ROC/RJCC!
We ran an amazing, smooth events, thanks to a great referees,officials armors,trainers,coaches and competitors!

Congratulations to All participants,and medalists!

Thank you,thank you,thank you!

03/27/2025

This is soooo exciting!
Our own ,just aged out cadet Ana Beckman is debuting at her first Senior World Cup at Morocco!!

Go Ana go!
Go team USA !!

03/19/2025

Happy Birthday to our wonderful coach Ania Garina !!!

Address

1535 N Dayton Street
Chicago, IL
60642

Telephone

+17738080323

Website

http://www.windycityfencing.com/

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