Five English Open medals and another Continental podium for Sidney Tancock adds up to excellent weekend for Team Bath Judo
Sidney Tancock secured a second successive Continental Open podium place and five medals were won at the Senior English Open during another excellent weekend of competition for Team Bath Judo.
Tancock, fresh from winning silver in Tunis, gained more World Ranking points after defeating fellow Brit Ashleigh Barnikel in the -48kg bronze-medal bout at the Algiers African Open.
The International Development with Economics graduate began her competition with victory inside 27 seconds over home judoka Ouahiba Larkeche before being edged out in a well-contested semi-final by top seed and eventual gold-medallist Oumaima Bedioui, who Tancock had beaten at the same stage the previous week.
Fellow graduate Chloe Robyns-Landricombe also picked up World Ranking points as she finished seventh in the -57kg weight category.
The English Open in Walsall saw Renz Vallejera and Adam Vosper win men’s -60kg gold and bronze respectively. There was another Team Bath podium double in the women’s -70kg as Anika Rabi won silver and Kaitlin Chapple-Allen took bronze.
Roxy Proctor bagged bronze in the women’s -63kg, with Evie Halvey-Jacobs placing seventh, and there were fifth-place finishes for Gergo Berendi in the men’s -66kg and Elliot Wilkinson in the men’s -81kg.
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Pictured top: Team Bath judoka and coaches celebrate a successful English Open.
