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The Junior British Closed
Championships provided a thrilling day of judo as Britain’s finest
young judoka took centre stage at EIS Sheffield on Saturday.
171 judoka were in action
with fast-rising talent descending on the steel city from across
Britain.
In the -44kg category,
Rebecca Burnett took gold while Junior World bronze medallist
Hayley Willis topped the -48kg category ahead of Emma Pang, Eve
Michael and Jennifer Morris.
Hayley Willis (white) claimed -48kg gold
Jodie Called took gold
at -52kg in front of Freya Dechastelain, Jade Lewis and Natasha
Stevens.
Nekoda Davis clinched -57kg
gold with Lucy Renshall, Georgina Keeble and Paige Brazier also
climbing onto the medal rostrum.
Jemima Duxberry claimed
-63kg glory ahead of Bekky Livesey, Holly Fielding and Lubjana
Piovesana.
Amy Livesey battled to
-70kg gold in front of Natasha Maslen, Sally Moon and Jordan Doherty.
Hannah Lewis won the -78kg
title in front of Rachel Moon and Lois Brown while Jodie Myers
claimed +78kg glory ahead of Sophie Edwards.
In junior boys action Joe Young secured
the -55kg gold medal ahead of Andrew Morris, Isaac Gagin and Renz
Vallejera.
Joshua Hill collected the
-60kg title with Samuel Hall, Lucas Rowe and Zair Karimov joining
him on the medal rostrum.
Lasha Lekishvili claimed
the -66kg crown as Daniel Lyon, Aiden Moffat and William Johnson
claimed the remaining medals.
Jack Smith topped the -73kg
field with Ramone Alexander, Darren Wood and Colin MacDonald closely
behind.
Conall McGregor won the
-81kg gold ahead of Reece Calder, Luke Meadows and Jamal Petgrave.
Samuel Potts claimed the
-90kg title in front of Charles Grocock, George Smith and Dominic
Laing.
Philip Awiti took the -100kg
crown with Peter Vincent, Thomas Alberts and Stuart Gallimore
joining him on the rostrum.
Joshua Burns took the +100kg
gold medal.
British Judo Performance
Director Daniel Lascau said: “This is my first time at the (Junior)
British Closed Championships and it’s been a good experience.
"With the girls I’ve
seen a lot of good throws, a lot of victories by ippon and fighting
spirit.
"The boys showed athleticism
and I’m very encouraged by all the performances. We are establishing
potential judoka for Rio in 2016 and I’m very happy with the junior
competitors.”
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