Olbrychski leads deep international sabre rankings in HEMA Ratings snapshot

1. Antoni Olbrychski, 2006.9

Olbrychski starts the June 2026 Mixed and Men's Steel Sabre snapshot as the only fencer above 2,000, and that matters because it gives him a real cushion at the top. He leads Konrad Kramarz by 53.6 points and Pedro San Miguel by 55.3, which is enough to hold the pole position for now but not enough to make the summit feel safe if the summer circuit keeps churning.

2. Konrad Kramarz, 1953.3

Kramarz sits in the narrow band just below the leader, and the first thing that jumps out is how little separates him from the next two names. He is only 1.7 points clear of Pedro San Miguel, so one good run at a high-value event could flip second place instantly and put even more pressure on the top line.

3. Pedro San Miguel, 1951.6

Pedro San Miguel is not chasing the leader in some vague, long-range sense. He is in a direct scrap with Kramarz for second, and at 1.7 points back he is close enough to treat every strong pool, bracket, or elimination run as a real seeding swing rather than background noise.

4. Mark Marb Morris, 1937.3

Morris is the first fencer who feels the top tier beginning to stretch out, but only slightly. He is still within striking distance of the podium cluster, just 14.3 points behind San Miguel and 2.6 clear of Giordano Moreni, which is exactly the kind of gap that can disappear in one tournament and reopen in the next.

5. Giordano Moreni, 1934.7

Moreni is right on Morris’s shoulder, and that makes him part of the most dangerous part of the board: the zone where a single result can change the look of the entire top five. He also sits 76.0 points behind Olbrychski, a gap that says the leader has a buffer, but not a fortress, against the upper end of the field.

6. Robert Childs, 1858.7

Childs is the first name outside the front cluster, but he is not detached from it in a way that would make him comfortable. He leads Mikołaj Kołodziej by just 2.9 points, which is the kind of margin that turns the next major sabre result into a direct head-to-head battle for placement rather than a slow climb.

7. Mikołaj Kołodziej, 1855.8

Kołodziej is sitting in one of the most volatile seats in the top ten. He is only 5.5 points ahead of Dmitriy Usoltsev and just 7.3 ahead of Joshua Derby, so the middle of this table is compressed enough that one event can shuffle three names without touching the top five at all.

8. Dmitriy Usoltsev, 1850.3

Usoltsev is in the kind of position that rewards consistency and punishes one bad day. He is 0.4 points ahead of Joshua Derby and 1.8 ahead of Tomasz Pawliszewski, which means he is not building a safety margin, he is surviving inside a knife-edge tier where every placement matters.

9. Joshua Derby, 1849.9

Derby is separated from Usoltsev by four tenths of a point, which is barely more than a rounding error in ranking terms and exactly why the race for the back end of the top ten feels so live. He is also only 1.4 points ahead of Pawliszewski, so a single result can push him down as quickly as it can pull him up.

10. Tomasz Pawliszewski, 1848.5

Pawliszewski closes the top ten, but he is not isolated, he is boxed into the deepest part of the pressure cooker. The full top ten runs from 2,006.9 down to 1,848.5, a spread of just 158.4 points across an international group that includes Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, and the United States, with club representation spread across Akademia Szermierzy, Mordschlag, Ausardia, The Old Sword Club, Club Scherma Leonessa, Black Tigers, Waterfront Historical Fencing Club, Golden Falcon, and Wichita Fencing & HEMA Academy. That breadth, paired with HEMA Ratings’ 3,113 fighters on the main island and 49 more across four secondary islands, shows why the next one or two steel sabre events can still reshuffle seeding, prestige, and the path into the elite tier, especially with 24 fighters already staying on an island as long as they have been active in the category.