Rock icon, 66, worth £100m competes in elite fencing competition and only loses to Olympic champion

IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson showed a flash of the leaf arsenic helium came 13th successful an elite fencing tournament.

The legendary metallic singer, 66, proved to beryllium a existent trooper erstwhile helium represented Great Britain successful the veteran’s class astatine the prestigious Circuit Europeen tourney successful Lille, France.

Dickinson, who replaced the precocious Paul Di’Anno arsenic Maiden’s vocalist successful 1981, utilized to bid with Team GB’s Olympic fencing squad successful the 1980s.

And helium showed there’d been nary wasted years arsenic helium enactment successful an admirable show against immoderate of Europe’s apical names.

Dickinson, who is worthy a whopping £100million, archetypal made airy enactment of Denmark’s Jeiner Simon successful a 10/4 victory.

But helium came unstuck against France’s Jolyot Pascal successful the next, losing 10/1 to the 1980 Olympic golden medallist.

Dickinson, who near Maiden successful 1993 earlier rejoining six years later, ended up finishing 13th successful the wide rankings arsenic German’s Hans Martin Raeker took location the apical prize.

Reflecting connected the tournament, helium said: “The past clip I came present to Lille, it was successful 2000 with Iron Maiden to bash rehearsals for the satellite tour.

“But now, I americium present for a fencing contention — a seasoned foil for older people, similar me.

“(Opponent Jolyot?) He’s not bad…”

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As good arsenic being the vocalist of Maiden and his ain solo band, Dickinson is besides a licensed commercialized aviator who brews his ain brew portion moving a plane-fixing steadfast that rakes successful £400,000 each month.

The ace has conscionable travel disconnected the backmost of different epic circuit with Maiden, who person sold 130million albums worldwide, called ‘The Future Past’.

The amusement combined immoderate of the band’s biggest songs with different hits from their latest album, ‘Senjutsu’, arsenic good arsenic respective deep-cuts from their rarely-played 1986 grounds ‘Somewhere In Time’.

Maiden, formed successful eastbound London successful 1975, performed 81 gigs successful beforehand of 1.4million fans crossed the world.

And to observe their 50th anniversary, this twelvemonth sees them embark connected a caller accumulation — the ‘Run For Your Lives’ satellite circuit — which volition absorption exclusively connected the archetypal 9 workplace albums from their postulation of 17.

But determination volition beryllium a noticeable quality connected stage, arsenic Maiden volition beryllium without long-serving drummer Nicko McBrain pursuing his status from unrecorded playing past year.