Callum Chapman breezed to another victory in Vienna stopping his Georgian opponent in the semi final and taking a unanimous decision in the final.
Olivia Pickthall gained a silver medal after a tough semi final against Viktor Kantor of Hungary that went all the way to a split decision, she lost the final on decision to a Bulgarian European Champion.
Isaac Warnfeldt Rush won his first fight with front kick waza ari on his Swiss opponent but lost the next bout on weight to his Hungarian opponent.
Isaac took 1st place in the Boys U16 LW category in Belgium Antwerp and will now go to Austria in a few weeks. In the final he winded his opponent with a back kick on his way to victory,
Nieve Sorge fought in there U16 Girls LW and improved on her recent performances with a credible 2nd place.
Crawley won eight medals at the British Open this year that same its largest ever entry with 365 athletes from 23 countries taking part.
Steve Papworth won the Veterans -75kg title defeating his Swiss opponent with a knee kick to the body in the semi final and a decision win in the final against the Bulgaria athlete.
Zara Bah won her first title in the U10 girls -30kg and Finn Buckfield retained his U16 crown although in a different weight category.
Silver was earned by Isaac Warnfeldt Rush in the U16 -55kg and Ilori Wachuku King in her first ever tournament.
Three Bronze medals went to James Clark MW Novice, Will Power U12 Boys and Alex Ilinov in U10 boys.
Callum Chapman was desperately unlucky to lose his Cup of Europe bout after dominating the fight on boards. Olivia Pickthall lost a three round decision to a tough Spanish opponent . Cody Chapman and Mason Hennessy both had unfortunate incidents in their bouts which saw them have to retire, David Gonda lost to a bigger opponent and Itanife Wachuku King lost on close fight in his first experience at contact fighting.
Our international federation held its World Kata Championships in Crawley with 23 countries participating in the event.
Crawley had two club members entered Blake Collins and Yusmin Khan who had solid performances making the last 16 with Blake finishing in 9th place and Yusmin 14th.
They also took part in the team with Amelia Canavan White from Hasting dojo finishing in 5th place.
GB finished at the top team with five golds, two silver and three bronze medals.
Congratulations to Tomasz Werczynski and Olivia Pickthall on passing the shodan black belt exams on the BKK Summer Camp at Royal Russell school.
The technical element of the grading took place during the first day of camp and then on the final session they had to complete 10 fights.
Well done tool Crawley members who attended the camp.
The club had Isaac Warnfeldt Rush and Nieve Sorge elected for GB to participate in the Valencia Cup. Isaac took gold winning his fights comfortably and Nieve Sorge picked up a bronze and she continues to improve on the international circuit.
Both Rose Cheneler and Zara Bah took part in the BKK Invictus inter club and walked away with valuable experience from their two fights.
The BKK held the largest UK only championships in Milton Keynes with hear 300 full contact athletes participating.
Crawley walked away with five gold, two silver and two bronze.
In the adult categories Callum Chapman kept his winning streak going adding the Lightweight Mens title to his British Crown.
Olivia Pickthall took silver in the Women’s Lightweight
Cody Chapman won gold in his first adult Novice MW event and Yusmin Khan won the Women’s Novice
In the U16 section Isaac Warnfeldt Rush, Finn Buckfield won gold.
U18 Fighter Elvin Vaskys took 3rd place and David Gonda was 2nd in U14
And Zara Bah took bronze in the U10 Girls
On the 8th March Crawley Borough Council Shihan David Pickthall was added in their second round of athletes to the Sporting Wall of Excellence. He joins Hanshi Arneil who was on the first edition and dojo member and former Pole Vaulter Nick Buckfield.
It is indeed an honour to be recognised by the Borough as one of the 25 significant contributors to sport in the town.
Steve won his semi final fight by decision after dominating and scoring with a good Joan mawashi geri but lost out in the final to Andy Raised of IKKU Ronin.