A conveyancer who works in Cumbria has represented her nation at an international fencing competition.

Wednesday Jones represented Wales at the Veterans’ Commonwealth Fencing Championship on Monday, August 15, and will go on to compete later today at the same competition in London.

She has been fencing on the women’s sabre team, having only returned to the sport in 2021 after five years off due to injury..

The championships are a competition run in the same year as the Commonwealth Games for sports no longer part of the main Games.

Wednesday took up fencing in 2005 by accident - she meant to attend an archery class but went on the wrong night.

Having tried foil and epee, she eventually settled on sabre, the fastest of the three forms of fencing, where the whole blade is used for scoring points.

From 2005 to 2007 she fenced in open competitions and won a few medals and trophies.

After qualifying in 2007, she joined the Welsh Veterans, was the Welsh number one for eight years; fencing in both open and veterans’ competitions including the Veterans’ Commonwealth Fencing Competition in Jersey in 2009, when she was part of the women’s sabre team which won silver, and again at Largs in 2014.

Injuries stopped her competing from 2015, a break which latterly coincided with the pandemic.

Restored to fitness and moving south to High Wycombe to be closer to her family last year, she took up fencing again and won bronze at the Welsh Nationals last September.

For the competition at the University of London Sports Dock tomorrow, Wednesday will be cheered on by her son and six-month-old grandson.

She said of her experience: “I used to be so hyper-competitive, and obsessed with scoring points, but coming back after so long without training I expected to come last, but that meant I enjoyed it a lot more.

“I actually came 22nd out of 32 (on Monday).

“I did as well as could be expected for the circumstances.”

She added on viewing the sport in that way: “There was a man doing epée and he had a heart-attack.

“He’s okay, but that turns our minds that it could happen to anyone, and that’s a risk you have at veteran competitions.

“You think ‘why go to a competition to be stressed out when you could be having fun?’.

“If you’re going to die on the piste you might as well have fun doing it.”

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