Suomen Miekkailu- ja 5-otteluliitto

Ylioppilasmiekkailijat ry - Studentfäktarna rf organizes Coupe du Nord Sabre Tournament in Helsinki 28.5.-29.5.2005. The tournament takes place in The Töölön Kisahalli sports hall on Paavo Nurmenkuja 1 close to the Helsinki centre.

Registrations should be sent by E-mail, letter or by fax by May 23rd to: Finnish Fencing Association, Radiokatu 20, FIN-00093 SLU, Finland, fax +358 9 34 81 20 41, E-mail info@miekkailuliitto.fi.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:
Saturday 28.5.2005:
Men's Individual Coupe du Nord Sabre:
registration and weapon control end at 11.00
the pools begin at 11.30
Ladies' Individual Coupe du Nord Sabre:
registration and weapon control end at 14.30
the pools begin at 15.00
Sunday 29.5.2005:
Open Coupe du Nord team competition:
registration and weapon control end at 9.30
the competition begins at 10.00

Final registrations with F.I.E. licence numbers must be made by Monday May 23rd 2005 by e-mail, letter or by fax to Finnish Fencing Association. Registrations to any other address are not valid. Entry fee for the individual competition is EUR 10:- / fencer and for the team competition EUR 10:- / team. No registrations are accepted after this date. Please notice that all participants for men's individual competition must have an F.I.E. international licence for 2005. All fencing equipment must conform to the F.I.E. standards. F.I.E. Satellite and Coupe du Nord rules will be followed. A banquet will be arranged on Saturday evening.

Head of the Coupe du Nord Helsinki competition is Ms. Anne Veinola.


THE COMPETITION FORMAT

- one pre-tournament round of pools, no elimination from this round

- second round of pools, seeded by the results from the first round, 20-30 % fencers eliminated after this round

- direct elimination, seeded by the results from the second round of pools.

- F.I.E. regulations will be applied.





OTHER INFORMATION

You can get more information about accommodation and traffic on the Web pages of the City of Helsinki: http://www.hel.fi . Traffic and maps are under Services accomodation can be found under Special Services for tourists. All pages are in Swedish and English.

Information about the competition can be found on the competition website: http://www.4sens.com/sabre-helsinki/

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Roope