Copenhagen HEMA event features 19-fighter longsword bracket in June 2026

Copenhagen did not need a giant festival card to matter. Danish Rank - Copenhagen 2026 put one mixed steel longsword division on the strip on June 20, 2026, and the numbers did the talking: 19 fighters, 44 bouts, and a bracket dense enough to make every result count in the Danish rankings picture.

HEMA Ratings listed the event in Copenhagen, Denmark, with Hemagon as the software behind the results. The field was drawn from a broad slice of the Danish scene, with HEMA Copenhagen, HEMA Odense, Aros Historical Fencing Guild, Frederiksborg Historiske Fægteklub, Hafnia HEMA, and HEMA Hobro all represented. The roster itself showed that spread in names: August Kolding, Benjamin Lentz Olesen, Brandur Bárðarson Varup, Christopher Rye Hansen, Felix Vegge, Finnlay Lambert, Frederik Handberg Mikkelsen, Freja Strandlod, Hugo Kerdoncuff, Kristine Baun, Leo Lejel Gehlert, Mads Frederik Tromholt Christiansen, Magnus Spetzler, Mattias Nyström Renouf, Maxim Zimnukhov, Nicolej Nysom Flohr, Robert Marzeta, Simon Jørgensen, and Simone Scrima.

That compact setup is the point. With one weapon, one division, and only 44 total fights, Danish Rank became less of a sprawling weekend and more of a high-leverage form check. Pool results and direct placements carried heavier weight because there was nowhere for a contender to hide across multiple categories. For clubs trying to measure training cycles against live opposition, that kind of bracket is cleaner than a padded schedule and more revealing than a trophy-heavy showcase.

The Copenhagen stop also fit into a broader Danish circuit that has been producing real longsword data all year. HEMA Ratings separately listed Danish Rank - Hobro 2026 with 24 fighters in Mixed & Men's Steel Longsword, while Hafnia Open 2026 drew 22 fighters in its Mixed & Men's Steel Longsword division and added separate women’s and underrepresented-genders brackets. Copenhagen’s 19-fighter field was smaller, but it sat inside a calendar that keeps turning out measurable tests instead of one-off exhibitions.

One club in that mix stands out early. HEMA Copenhagen described itself as a new historical fencing club founded in late 2025, training at Spor10, Vasbygade 10, Copenhagen, and working across rapier, longsword, and sabre. The club says its training blends historical texts with adapted Olympic-fencing tactics, and that gives its presence in a June rankings event an added edge: this was not just turnout, it was an early read on whether the program could convert structure into results. Copenhagen also carries older fencing history of its own, with the club noting Salvatore Fabris’s Danish connection to Christian IV and the manual preserved in Copenhagen’s National Library. In that light, Danish Rank looked like a small bracket on paper and a meaningful measuring stick in practice.