Venray International, The Netherlands

An impressive performance by young judo star Jaime-Leigh Whitaker saw her return from The Netherlands with a Gold Medal round her neck. On her very first trip abroad she fought up a weight group and won all of her fights to win this prestigious International event.  In her section were girls from The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Repuiblic.  This truly International event sees fighters from all over Europe descend on Venray making it one of the toughest events on the International Judo calender.  Next year we hope to take over a couple more players to the event. Eric Ham did travel over to the event but was unable to compete due to his broken wrist.