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Statistics Profile

John Pitzel

1963
Five Rings Fencing Club
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Win/loss statistics

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Victories - - - 3 4 7
Losses - - - 18 9 27
Win ratio - - - 14.3% 30.8% 20.6%
Pool victories - - - 3 4 7
Pool losses - - - 15 7 22
Pool win ratio - - - 16.7% 36.4% 24.1%
DE victories - - - - - -
DE losses - - - 3 2 5
DE win ratio - - - 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Seasons start on August 1 and end on July 31.

Scores

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Easy wins† - - - 1 - 1
Easy wins % - - - 33.3% 0.0% 14.3%
Close wins‡ - - - 1 2 3
Close wins % - - - 33.3% 50.0% 42.9%
Close losses‡ - - - 3 2 5
Close losses % - - - 16.7% 22.2% 18.5%
Big losses† - - - 4 2 6
Big losses % - - - 22.2% 22.2% 22.2%

† Easy victories or big losses are 4+ touches in pools, 7+ in standard DEs, and 5+ in veteran or youth DEs.

‡ Close bouts are 1 touch or fewer in pools, 3 or fewer in standard DEs, and 2 or fewer in veteran or youth DEs.

Events

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Events - - - 3 2 5
Tournaments - - - 2 2 4

Competition history

5 competitions, 34 bouts

National Championships & July Challenge (Summer Nationals)

Vet-60 Men's Épée A2, V60 July 3, 2023

Place 40 of 55 Seed 47 Rank 67 Rating E23 Five Rings Fencing Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
V 5:1 STONE Ken 51 65 U 47 Twin Cities Fencing Club 1305 1908 16.7 83%
Pool
D 3:5 HAYENGA Gary M. 15 12 A19 15 Plymouth/Ann Arbor Fencing Academy / Ann Arbor Dueling Society 2819 1924 8.3 8%
Pool
V 5:4 NEALE James H. 18 47 A19 16 Fencers Club Inc. 2323 1916 66.0 26%
Pool
D 3:5 CHANG Henry 34 - C23 33 2361 1982 22.1 28%
Pool
D 3:5 JENSEN David 2 2 A19 8 Fortune Fencing 2715 1960 10.3 11%
Pool
D 2:5 EVANS Allen L. 30 15 C23 37 DC Fencers Club 2126 1950 29.4 39%
T64
D 7:10 NEALE James H. 18 47 A19 16 Fencers Club Inc. 2645 1569 55.9 9%

Division 1 Championships/April NAC

Vet-60 Men's Épée A2, V60 April 24, 2023

Place 41 of 41 Seed 38 Not ranked Rating E23 Five Rings Fencing Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 1:5 WATRALL Rick 1 1 A22 18 New York Athletic Club / Fencers Club Inc. 2916 2060 12.4 9%
Pool
D 4:5 PERKA Michael 12 20 A19 16 The Fencing Center 2654 2048 20.7 17%
Pool
D 0:5 OCHS Bradley C. 25 - B21 19 Traverse City Fencing Club 2352 2027 33.0 30%
Pool
D 3:5 MAZZOLI Julio C. 24 35 B21 21 Olympia Fencing Center 2768 1994 13.2 11%
Pool
D 2:5 LINGVAY Laurance (Larry) S. 37 53 D19 3 Fortune Fencing 2253 1981 33.1 33%
Pool
D 1:5 KLEIN Johannes 13 25 A19 13 Rain City Fencing Center 2055 1948 40.3 43%
T64
D 4:10 HUDSON Jeffrey (Jeff) A. 16 49 A19 7 Hudson Centers For The Martial Arts 3347 1581 11.8 1%

Division 1 Championships/April NAC

Veteran Men's Épée A4, VET April 23, 2023

Place 86 of 101 Seed 84 Not ranked Rating E23 Five Rings Fencing Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 3:5 KURITZ Marc M. 37 - B22 26 No Fear Fencing 2393 2230 72.7 40%
Pool
D 4:5 RIFKIND Neil 96 - U 90 Fencers Club Inc. 1719 2157 129.0 75%
Pool
D 2:5 BALLARD Mark V. 54 - C23 68 2710 2028 24.9 16%
Pool
D 2:5 KIM Jeff 67 - D23 67 Elite Fencing Academy (GA) / Elite Fencing Academy (VA) 2030 2003 67.4 48%
Pool
D 4:5 FRANK Fred 7 - A23 28 Northwest Fencing Center 2741 1936 16.1 10%
Pool
V 5:2 VARNEY John R. 24 - A19 29 Salle Auriol Seattle 2775 1920 140.5 9%
T128
D 6:10 LINGVAY Laurance (Larry) S. 79 - D19 47 Fortune Fencing 2159 1813 232.3 34%

October NAC

Div II Men's Épée B3, DV2 October 21, 2019

Place 45 of 64 Seed 45 Not ranked Rating E19 Five Rings Fencing Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 4:5 DOUGLAS Colin F. 25 - D19 48 Rhode Island Fencing Academy And Club 2419 2137 116.7 35%
Pool
V 5:4 CRANE Matthew T. 5 - B19 30 Olympic Fencers Club 2405 2020 211.1 29%
Pool
D 2:5 IVAKIMOV Vasil 16 - C19 9 Fencing Center Of Chicago 2867 2231 46.3 17%
Pool
V 5:3 CHRISTIAN John R. 36 - D17 56 Beverly Hills Fencers' Club 2287 2185 113.5 44%
Pool
D 3:5 LI Sui Lun (Phillip) 57 - U 26 2553 2299 68.8 36%
T64
D 3:15 BUYANOV Nikita V. 26 - D19 12 South Florida Fencing Club 2844 1961 148.1 16%

USA Fencing National Championships & July Challenge

Vet-50 Men's Épée A4, V50 July 2, 2019

Place 48 of 76 Seed 63 Not ranked Rating E16 Five Rings Fencing Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 3:5 GUMAGAY Paul 41 32 C19 22 Penta Olympic Fencing Club 2536 2500 523.0 49%
Pool
V 5:2 PREUD'HOMME Xavier A. 70 - U 75 Mid-South Fencers' Club 1404 1977 197.6 73%
Pool
D 4:5 REES Daniel I. 4 8 A19 3 Rocky Mountain Fencing Academy 3191 2175 80.9 11%
Pool
D 3:5 SUMLER Jeffery 19 28 A15 14 Marx Fencing Academy / Boston Fencing Club 2603 2094 150.6 26%
Pool
D 2:5 NGUYEN Cuong T. 26 31 B16 39 Battle Born Fencing Club 2741 1943 77.6 15%
Pool
V 5:4 PIERRO Roger 46 - C18 63 Fencers Club Inc. 2257 1865 271.7 31%
T64
D 4:10 CLARK Timothy J. 34 61 B17 21 2332 2500 539.1 56%