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Beijing Olympian Sarah
Clark won a bronze medal at last weekend’s Prague World Cup, which
took place on the 28th February & 1st March in the Czech capital.
It is the second medal
in as many tournaments for the Edinburgh player who since the
Beijing Games has moved down to the -57kg weight category from
-63kg, a category in which she was also successful winning a European
Championships in 2006.
In February the 31-year-old
also won gold at the Belgium B Tournament in Arlon.
Commenting on her decision
to change weight category Clark said, “I have been playing with
the idea of moving down for a little while as I have always been
quite light for the -63kg category. I would always be trying to
put on weight and would be much lighter at competition than my
competitors.
“I am obviously quite
tall for -57kg and probably the tallest in the weight category,
which has been, and will be an advantage, should I stay at this
weight rather than return to -63kg. That said, I am still not
100% sure about where I will choose to settle and this is a decision
that I will need to make”.
In Prague Clark beat
Loulietta Bouke of Greece, Dijana Moric of Serbia and Malgorzata
Bieklak of Poland in her preliminary round all by ippon, but lost
in the quarter final to Tina Trstenjak of Slovenia.
In the repechage the
Brit again took her win against Viola Waechter of Germany by ippon,
before defeating Giulia Quintavalle of Italy to clinch the bronze.
Afterwards she said,
“I am delighted with the result. I feel very strong and have done
every right so things are feeling good”.
Commenting on the next
few months she said, “I will be fighting the English Open and
at the moment aiming to be selected at -57kg for this year’s European
Championships.”
The 2009 GB World Cup
will take place on the 19th & 20th September and will be for
both men and women. Tickets will go on sale to BJA members in
April and the general public in May.
© David
Finch
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