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.
The club had twenty one students promoted to different ranks in the last session of 2025.
4 green, 5 yellow, 5 blue and 7 orange belts were awarded in the kyu test that lasted over two hours and finished with fights.
The path to a high grade in Kyokushin is not like many styles of Karate. We see a Black Belt as the equivalent as studying for a degree so you will not see children walking around as black belts.
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.
David Gonda won gold again within a few weeks, this time to become champion of Wales. Isaac Warnfeldt Rush matched his achievement with his first kata title.
Riyaad took 2nd in the U18 and Alek Ilinov 2nd in the U12. Zara Bah managed 3rd place giving the whole team a trophy
BKK England sent a team to the Sutani international Cup and David Gonda took gold with Ruby McCord gaining silver. It was a great experience for both youth athletes who continue to improve.
Callum Chapman added the Cup of Europe and British Open LW title to his resume for the Chris time completing an amazing year without losing a full contact bout.
His younger brother Cody took 3rd place in the Mens HW and James Clark also achieved 3rd place in the Mens LW.
The club also saw winners in Olivia Stimpson U12 and Alek Ilinov in the U10 -35kg categories.
Other prize winners were Mason Hennessy, David Gonda and Yusmin Khan Silver.
Itanife Wachuku King, Isaac Warnfeldt Rush, Nieve Sorge, Ruby Mccord, Elvin Vaskys, IRiyaad Ackurbally and Martin Stimpson bronze.
Our annual open day and inter club had children from Folkestone, Dunmow, Westcroft (Sutton), Weymouth, Wimbledon as well as Crawley.
Our young athletes won 10 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze.
The club wants to thank all the parents for helping run the day and supply food and drink stalls.
James Clark stepped up to the open category and took gold at his first attempt in the Mens LW as well as most spirited fighter. Cody Chapman also secured the top spot in the Mens HW.
Isaac Warnfeldt Rush and Zara Bah won again the junior categories making it a very successful event.
Crawley finished with 11 trophies overall. Nomi Saeedi, Mason Hennessy, Alek Ilinov, Itanife Wachuku King, David Gonda and Izzy Dodd took 2nd and Rose Cheneler took 3rd place.