C. van Doorn

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C. van Doorn
Personal information
Bornc. 1880s
Died20th-century
Years active1911-1919
Sport
SportFencing
ClubSalle De Vos, The Hague
Coached byProf. J. De Vos

Jkvr. C. van Doorn (born c. 1880s — died 20th-century) was a Dutch fencer. As a fencer at Salle De Vos in The Hague she was a pioneer, being one of the earliest Dutch female fencers. Her fencing career was from 1911 to 1919. She became the first international Dutch female fencer in 1911 at the 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions together with the four other Dutch competitors.

Biography[change | change source]

Van Doorn was born in the late 19th-century in c. 1880s. She held the noble title of jonkvrouw.[1]

Fencing[change | change source]

Van Doorn was a fencer at Salle De Vos in The Hague of professor J. De Vos. She was one of the earliest female fencers in the Netherlands. Together with four other females of Salle De Vos (H. Luden, Beelaerts van Blokland, E. van den Berg and H. van den Berg) she went to London, United Kingdom for the 1911 England–Holland women's fencing competitions. In Londen they competed against female fencers of the Bertrands Fencing Academy. This was the first international fencing competition for Dutch women. Van Doorn was the best Dutch fencer. She won four of her five matches and won from among the 1908-1909 British champion Millicent Hall. However, the Dutch team lost from the British team.[2][1] A week later, after coming back in the Netherlands, she had a match against Beelaerts van Blokland during a main fencing event in The Hague.[3]

At the end of 1913 she went with four other Dutch women to the international 1913 Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup in London. Van Doorn was eliminated in the first round. She was in her pool beaten by British fencers Alice Walker and Jean Colmer.[4][5]

As part of the celebration of the new hall of Giovanni Giandomenici, a fencing academy in Amsterdam, she participated in an assaut in February 1914.[6] During the 1914 club championships of salle De Vos she fenced remarkably beautiful matches.[7]

In March 1917 she won the third prize in a national competition in The Hague, behind Beelaerts van Blokland and Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo.[8] In April 1918 she competes at the national competition in Amsterdam.[9]

Probably her last main competition was in April 1919. This was a competition between three main Dutch women fencing clubs (De Vos, Van Humbeek, Giandomenici).[10]

Fencing style[change | change source]

In 1914 it was pointed out that Van Doorn had like the other fencers of Salle De Vos another fencing style compared to Esther Bekkers-Lopes Cardozo of Salle Giandomenici from Amsterdam. Her "graceful pullings" were described as opposite to the style of Bekkers-Lopes Cardozodescribed that was described as “more lively, more fiery and less different from the men's technique”.[11]

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Haagsche dames te Londen". Het vaderland (in Dutch). 20 March 1911. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  2. "Damesmatch Engeland-Holland". De nieuwe courant (in Dutch). 21 March 1911. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  3. "Feneing-tea in De zaal De Vos". De nieuwe courant (in Dutch). 28 March 1911. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  4. "Schermen". Algemeen Handelsblad (in Dutch). 29 November 1913. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  5. "The Alfred Hutton Memorial Challenge Cup". Les Armes (in French). 14 December 1913. p. 503-504. Retrieved 21 September 2022 – via calameo.com.
  6. "Schermzaal Giandomenici". De nieuwe courant (in Dutch). 16 February 1914. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  7. "Haagsche Damesschermclub". De nieuwe courant (in Dutch). 4 April 1914. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  8. "Schermen". De avondpost (in Dutch). 30 March 1917. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  9. "Dames schermwedstrijden". Het nieuws van den dag (in Dutch). 26 April 1918. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  10. "Schermen". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 13 April 1919. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.
  11. "Een nieuwe schermzaal". Het nieuws van den dag (in Dutch). 16 February 1914. Retrieved 1 August 2022 – via Delpher.