Four out of five golds were won by our female fighters at the English Open with Crawley taking overall 2nd place collecting nine prizes.

Olivia Pickthall took the womens lightweight crown with three tough fights. Ruby McCord added to her recent International success with the U18 HW title, Olivia Stimpson regained the U14 HW gold and Rose Cheneler in only her second contact tournament shone to win the U14 LHW gold.

Isaac Warnfeldt Rush who has now stepped up to U18 won the lightweight gold in impressive fashion.

The club also picked up 2nd places with David Gonda U16 -60kg, Itanife Wachuku King U10 -35kg and we got third place with Rebecca Daniel in the Women Novice LW and Andy Ilinov in the U10 -35kg.

The club also had Will Power, Riyaad Ackurbally, Ilori Wachuku King and Zara Bah take 4th place. Nami Saeedi and Mason Hennessy were joint 5th

Callum moved up to middleweight -80kg and regained the West Europe title with three bruising bouts. Winning decisions against his Dutch and Belgian opponents before taking the crown against top German fighter Steven Demanov.

His was part of a GB team that saw Jess Hickman from Invictus Croydon take 4th place and Hayley Beth Rowlands lose out in the Quarter Finals.

Cody Chapman and Ruby McCord both took 3rd place in the U21 Categories in Barcelona.

Olivia Pickthall sustained an ankle injury and had to forfeit the bout

Crawley picked up two golds and a total of five medals to finish in third place in the overall ranking this year.

Mia Mellows won her first individual Kata title in the U16 Blue Belt. An amazing achievement for an 8 year old.

The low grade team consisting of Jon Cheneler, Nikolay Kosherov and Radoslav Porubcan also took gold and indivudally they all placed with Jon securing 2nd place and Nikolay and Rado took 3rd.

The other members participating performed well but were outside of the medals.

Crawley won 3 gold, 5 silver and 11 bronze medals at the National Championships for semi contact fighting with Callum Chapman adding the semi crown to his full contact gold for 2025, Martin Fregis and Mia Mellows taking their first British individual titles.

Silvers were won by Olivia Pickthall, Ruby McCord, Jon Cheneler and the Adult and Pee Wee teams.

Bronze medals for Isaac Warnfeldt Rush, Riyaad Ackurbally, Rose Cheneler, Olivia Stimpson, Andi Ilinov, Mason Hennessy, Nami Saeedi, Olivia Stimpson, Daniel Porubcan, Jon Cheneler and the junior team

NIeve Sorge won the KO Cup Austrian Open in fine style with two ippons with head kicks.She dominated from start to finish and will hopefully take that confidence into the new year.

Isaac Warnfeldt Rush lost in the quarter finals to the eventual winner.

The club had six out of twenty eight athletes represent England with Yusmin Khan in the Kata and Mia Mellows, Niyah Kumari, Will Power, Mason Hennessy, Rose Cheneler and Martin Fregis in the semi contact.

Although the majority of the Crawley fighters won their bouts the overall winners were Wales.