Three Golds at the 46th British Open

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.

6th IFK World Kata Championships, K2 Crawley

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.