20th All Japan Veteran Fencers Championships
35th Takiguchi Cup Veteran Fencers Championships
Information of Competition
1. Date :Saturday, 16th November – Sunday, 17th November, 2019

2. Venue:

The Kobe City Central Gymnasium,
4-1-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Pref. , Japan

Japanese Fencing Federation/Federation Japonaise d’Escrime(FJE)

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Organizer :4.

Schedule of Competition:
Saturday, 16th November :12:00 Open of the venue, accreditation(from 12:00 until 60 min. before the bouts)
13:00 Start of competition: Men’s Epee, Women’s Foil/Sabre
From Poules to tournament(ED), Finals.
17:00 Award Ceremony
Sunday, 17th November :09:00 Open of the venue, accreditation(from 09:00 until 60 min. before the bouts)
10:00 Start of competition: Men’s Foil/Sabre, Women’s Epee
From poules to tournament(ED), Finals
16:00 Award Ceremony, Closing＊Time Tables will be posted to FJE website, when the entry has completed after theclosing date of entry.

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Participants & Entry : Fencers must belongs to the national federation where they resides.
Japanese passport holder have to complete FJE registration of FY2019, beforeapplication.
 A foreign fencer has to hold an registration of FIE(Federation International d’Escrime) for
the season of 2019-2020, from the federation of his/her resident .
 Fencers of the following age categories are eligible to participate the competition1Age Categories
MaleFemale

40 – 49 : Category A (born in years

35 – 49 : Category A (born in years

on/after 1970 to 1979)

on/after 1970 to 1984)

50 – 59 : Category B (born in years

50 – 59 : Category B (born in years

on/after 1960 to 1969)

on/after 1960 to 1969)

60 – 69 : Category C (born in years

60 – 69 : Category C (born in years

on/after 1950 to 1959)

on/after 1950 to 1959)

70 plus : Category D (born in years

70 plus : Category D (born in years

on/before 1949)

on/before 1949)

6.

Entry fees :Entry fee of JPY 4,500 yen, must be paid in cash at the venue to Japanese Federation.

For Individual entry, you will submit an entry form attached, and send to FJE/Veterans
Committee. ( e-mail to : fencing.veterans@gmail.com )The entry form, attached herewith, which should be arrived to the Japanese Fencing
Federation, by 09 November, 2019. No entry will be accepted after 10 November, in JST.

7. FIE Rules :The Competition shall be conducted in accordance with the current Statutes and Rules ofthe FIE. In case of disagreement in the interpretation of the Rules, the latest English version
shall prevail. The Directoire Technique (DT) will, however, reserve the right to decide,
without right of appeal, on any issues not covered by the FIE Rules or by these Rules.
8. Formula : No team event will be held.( Individual event only)
There will be one round of Pools, after which fencers are to proceed to Direct Elimination
by Gender, weapon and age Categories. All pools will be for 5 touches per bout or 3minutes and Direct Elimination (DE) shall be for 10 touches, or 2 rounds of 3 minutes each.
(a) If there are a minimum of 4 fencers in each gender, weapon and age category, they will
have pools by themselves for ranking, then Direct Elimination for placing and awards.
(b) If there are less than 4 fencers in a gender, weapon and age category, they will begrouped in pools with the next younger age category, for ranking, then DE by age
category for placing and awards。
9. Equipment & Uniform :(a) Fencers must wear uniforms (at least 350 Newtons) and plastron of 800 Newtons.
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Other equipment and wears, the name of the fencer and the 3 letter of country name are
not necessarily marked on them. Fencers must use fencing blades, and masks, plastrons
and uniforms with FIE marks on.
(b) No weapon check room will be open. All the check on weapon, uniforms, mask,
plastrons and blades will be conducted by the referee of the bout on the pistes.
10. Competition Management :Directoire Technique (DT)The DT shall be responsible for the technical organization of the competition. Timeschedule of bout and number of the pistes to fence for each fencers, will be displayed in
the venue by Fencing Time Live Result system.

It will be also available to check the information by mobile phone, through internet.

For your convenience, please watch frequently at the display(s), the progress of thematches and show up yourself to the designated pistes, 10 min. before the starting timeof the matches.

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Awards :One (1) gold, one (1) silver, and two (2) bronze medals of FJE be provided to the topfour (4) fencers and diplomas to the top eight (8) fencers.

For the best fencer of each weapon groups ME/MF/MS/WE/WF/MS will be selected by
the organizing committee and the Takiguchi Trophy will be provided by therepresentative of TOKOKAI(OB/OG Association of Waseda University, Tokyo)

12. Language :Official language is English and Japanese. Time Table of the competition.
13. Accommodation and Transportation:
Accommodation should be arranged by the fencer. No designated or official hotels are
assigned by the organizer.

On Sunday, 17 November, there will be a big event of Kobe Citizen’s Marathon
Competition, for which thousands of participants will join the event in Kobe. In case we
may suggest to book your hotels in Osaka, from where it takes 60 min. to the venue which
is close to JR Kobe station.

For accommodation in Kobe City Wakayama City, our designated agency keeps some lot ofTransportation to the venue:➀ 3 min. walk from Kobe City Subway “Okurayama Station.”➁ 10 min. walk from JR “Kobe Station” of Tokaido Line/JR Sanyo Honsen Line.
➂ 5 min. walk from Kosoku Kobe Line “Kosoku Kobe Station.”……end3