FENCING: Two time Olympian Evelyn Halls is daring to dream of a third possible Olympics after a strong performance at the third Australian Circuit event in Melbourne on the weekend.

43-year-old Halls, who competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, won gold in the women’s epee final, consolidating on some strong international results earlier this year that have put her in the box seat to represent Australia at next year’s Olympic qualifying tournament.

She beat fellow Victorian, Diana Sher, who at 22 is almost half Halls age, in a hard fought final.

It would be a remarkable effort for Halls to make the Rio team.

She admits she is doing nowhere near the work she was doing before her previous two Olympic appearances.

“Back then I was training 10 times a week, now I’m training three times a week,” Halls said.

“But the last few times I was competing for a medal. Now I just do what I’ve got to do.

“I have a full time job, and a child, so this is the choice I make.”

Halls best performance at an Olympics was a 14th in Athens in 2004, the best Games performance ever by a female Australian fencer.

Four years earlier, in front of her home crowd, Halls finished 20th.

Australia failed to qualify a fencer for the London 2012 Olympics, something Halls and her colleagues are hoping to rectify next year.

In other results on Saturday, Victoria’s Lucas Webber also went one step closer to landing an Olympic qualification opportunity by beating fellow Victorian, Matt Foster, in the final of men’s foil competition.

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