Within the second version of the Birmingham Junior European Cup, the Nice Britain crew are able to welcome one other 17 nations to compete over the fifteenth and sixteenth of June 2024, a complete of 281 athletes will probably be battling it out for gold this upcoming weekend.
There are some very robust hopes for the British delegation, together with high ranked; Luke DAVIES within the -73kg class, an already established junior athlete, ranked #4 within the WRL. Following a while away from competitors to are likely to harm, he returned robust in Kaunas most not too long ago, claiming a silver medal. The Junior European medallist may have the help of the house crowd in Birmingham.
In reality, the Kaunas Junior European Cup was probably the most profitable for the British crew, taking dwelling a complete of 10 medals, together with a gold medal from Holly DEVALL within the -70kg class. Devall now has the prospect to take glory at dwelling and remaining medallists; Charlie AYRE (-60kg), Summer season SHAW (-48kg), Irakli GOGINASHVILI (-73kg), Benjamin LEVY (-73kg), Charlotte JENMAN (-57kg), Anya HASSAN (-78kg) and Eryk NEUMANN (-81kg) will probably be raring to go and enhance their earlier outcomes.
Not solely is that this a possibility to showcase their high abilities and medal hopes, however this can be a nice probability for a few of their cadet athletes to see how they fare within the subsequent age bracket. Eva EWING often competes within the -44kg class and has been an everyday Cadet European Cup medallist in 2024. This will even be helpful preparation as we stay up for the Cadet European Championships in Sofia on the finish of the month.
Apart from the robust British entry, there are another well-known names arriving to proceed their medal hauls. Impressively, 18 year-old Kinga CHMIELEWSKA (POL) within the -57kg class is three for 3 to this point this 12 months, medalling in all of her junior endeavours together with a gold in Podgorica. Poland are sending are a powerful entrance, with the likes of Ksawery IGNASIAK (-60kg), Daniela BADURA (-63kg) and Michal WASIKOWSKI (-90kg). The Netherlands crew can boast a number of high seeds together with Flores DEN HARTOG (-90kg), Joni GEILEN (-63kg) and Joshua DE LANGE (-81kg) and Linde HANSTEDE (-78kg).
Davit KEVLISHVILI (ESP) gave an incredible efficiency within the Madrid European Open, although misplaced out to the eventual silver medallist; Grzegorz TERESINSKI (POL) who managed to finest Teddy RINER (FRA) for a second within the last. Kevlishvili has been displaying consistency this 12 months and can proceed to indicate that in Birmingham this weekend.
The stay draw will happen on Friday 14th of June at 20:00 and could be adopted at JudoTV.com.
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Writer: Thea Cowen
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