Julia Johnstone

Julia F. M. Johnstone was a British foil fencer from London. She was a fencer at Salle Bertrand. She was one of the best female fencers in the early 20th-century. She also won prizes in tennis and swimming.

Career
Johnstone started with fencing in 1903. In 1904 she became a member of Salle Bertrand where she was trained by fencing master Felix Bertrand. In the same year she won the third prize at the international fencing meeting at the by the Ladies' Army and Navy Club. Two years later, in 1906, she won the fifth prize at the international fencing meeting at Hurling organized by the Ladies' Cercle d'Escrime. She won the national competition in 1907 that was organised by Druse. She captained the four-members women's team of Salle Bertrand, that won the first Ladies' Challenge Cup Competition. Later they won the cup again in 1910.

Johnstone became British national champion in 1910.

She was one of the Britisch fencers who competed at one of the earliest international fencing competitions, the 1910 England–Belgium women's fencing competition. Here she competed against the Belgian Leni Preetorius. She won an international competition against Dutch women of Salle De Vos during the 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions in London. According to the Dutch newspaper De nieuwe courant Johnstone was together with Millicent Hall, much better compared to the other British women. She competed in November 1913 at the 1913 Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup where she finished fourth in the final.

Next to fencing, Johnstone was also a lawn tennis player and a powerful swimmer. Also in swimming and tennis she won many prizes.

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