Congratulations to Bethany Salvi and Kobe Spinney Dibble who won their respective titles at the national tournament. Charlie Denton also took 3rd place.

Charlie Denton 3rd place	Beth Salvi 1st place	Kobe Spinney Dibble 1st place

Well done to the Junior boys team of Robert Salvi, Kieran Long, Bart Chaisrisud, Kobe Spinney Dibble and Charlie Denton came 2nd after drawing 2-2 with Mountain Ash they lost a sudden death fight off. The Pee Wee team of Ashley Black and Aaron Phillips also took 2nd place.

front row 1st left Ashley Black, 3rd Charlie Denton, 5th Kobe Spinney Dibble and 1st right back row Bart Chaisrisud

Crawley had four juniors selected to be in the England team selected to travel to Ireland to compete against Wales, Ireland and Switzerland.

Bart Chaisrisud was in the junior team who fought well but were defeated.

Pee Wee’s Kobe Spinney Dibble, Charlie Denton, and Ashley Black were the victorious team. Also in the individuals Kobe won and Charlie came 3^rd

Crawley had six fighters in the tournament with Blake Collins, Tomasz Werczinski and Alec Bianes in the Novice categories and Dawid Ozga, Darren Chan and Richard Casella in the Open categories.

Blake won the Middleweight defeating Davydd Duprey of Ynysowen in the Final. Tomasz Werczinski came second in the Heavyweight with Alec Baines also coming 3^rd.

Blake Collins 1st Place

Tomasz Werczinski 2nd place, Alec Baines 3rd place

In the Open Category Heavyweight Richard Casella lost to KWU bronze medalist Roel Noordman of Holland in the first round.

Both Dawid Ozga and Darren Chan got to the quarter finals and lost to Russian opponents after drawing their bouts they failed the woodbreaking so were eliminated.

Crawley lightweight Dawid Ozga took part in the -70kg category for Great Britain in the KWU World Chmpionships. He defeated his first opponent Timur Chitanava from Abkhazia by waza ari with a punch then fought three tough rounds against Afghanistan fighter Hojat Samehzada. In the final round the judges had the fight level 2-2 so the referee decided the winner and  Samehzada went through to the semi finals 3-2. Since the event Samehzada has been disqualified for doping violations.

Crawley Club took part in the Dunmow 30th anniversary event and the Greg Hitchins Cup. The A team captained by Blake Collins took 1st place with the B team taking 3rd place.

In the individuals the juniors had lots of success in their categories

Pee Wee Low Grade
1st Mikolaj Zabawa
3rd Alexander Sproston

Pee Wee High Grade
1st Charlie Denton

-150cm Low Grade
1st Bart Chaisrisud

+150cm Low Grade
1st Bethany Salvi
2nd Robert Salvi
3rd Madsion Sproston

Richard took part in the So-Kyokushin Openweight Tournament. He defeated his first opponent by 3 round decision then dropped his semi final opponent with a chudan mae geri for ippon. In the final he lost to the South American champion from Chile on a judges decision.

Our Open Day & Junior Interclub Clicker Tournament was a great success, competitors from Dunmow, Crystal Palace, Eastbourne, Hastings, Saffron Walden, West Hill, Westcroft and Verwood took part.

Many thanks to all that took part, helped out, supported & spectated on Sunday.

RESULTS

INDIVIDUALS:
MINI PEE WEE ~
1 JACK BARSON EASTBOURNE
2 JAMIE SULLIVAN VERWOOD
3 GRACE INGRAM EASTBOURNE
3 YACOB ROSSAFI CRYSTAL PALACE

PEE WEE 1 ~
1 ASHLEY BLACK CRAWLEY
2 FYNN CLEMENT DUNMOW
3 CHLOE SLOCOMBE DUNMOW
3 LUCA MAGYAR DUNMOW

PEE WEE 2 ~
1 ELI SALMON SAFFRON WALDEN
2 LUKE SABEY SAFFRON WALDEN
3 LYDIA JOSEPH EASTBOURNE
3 JAMES BARKER SAFFRON WALDEN

MIXED -150CM ~
1 KOBE SPINNEY DIBBLE CRAWLEY
2 CHARLIE DENTON CRAWLEY
3 BART CHAISEISUD CRAWLEY
3 MIKOLAJ ZABAWA CRAWLEY

LOW GRADE GIRLS +150 CM ~
1 BETH SALVI CRAWLEY
2 MAISE BLACKFORD WEST HILL
3 LAUREN SEMMENS VERWOOD
3 LIZ WILSON VERWOOD

LOW GRADE BOYS +150CM ~
1 ADAM WHITE EASTBOURNE
2 ALEX BEAL EASTBOURNE
3 ROBERT SALVI CRAWLEY
3 TED WRIGHT VERWOOD

HIGH GRADE +150CM ~
1 KAYLEY MORRIS DUNMOW
2 GEORGIA SLOCOMBE DUNMOW
3 OLIVER FATHERS EASTBOURNE
3 KAAN YILDIRIM SAFFRON WALDEN

U21 ~
1 ARIN YILDIRIM SAFFRON WALDEN
2 RYAN MORTER CRAWLEY
3 ISABELL BENJAMIN DUNMOW
3 CALLUM PEARCE VERWOOD

TEAMS:
MINI ~
1 WESTHILL/HASTINGS
2 CRYSTAL P/CRAWLEY/ DUNMOW
3 EASTBOURNE
3 VERWOOD

PEE WEE ~
1 SAFFRON WALDEN
2 CRALWEY
3 EASTBOURNE
3 DUNMOW

LOW GRADE ~
1 CRAWLEY 1
2 CRAWLEY 2
3 VERWOOD 1
3 EASTBOURNE

HIGH GRADE/U21 ~
1 CRAWLEY
2 EASTBOURNE
3 SAFFRON WALDEN/WESTHILL
3 VERWOOD

BEST FIGHTER OF THE DAY ~
ASHLEY BLACK CRAWLEY

Ashley Black with his award

Dawid Ozga took 1st place in the lightweight of the BKK English Open defeating Welshman Spencer Bennett in a tough final. This was the 4th time in a row Ozga has taken a division at this event having previously won LW 2014, MW 2013 and cadet 2012.

Darren Chan came 2nd on a split decision in the middleweight and scored a nice jodan mawashi geri waza ari in the semi final.

Richard Casella HW lost in the quarter finals to the eventual winner and novices Blake Collins and Tomasz Werczinski both went out in the quarters.

Darren Chan, coach David Pickthall, Dawid Ozga