Britain had a successful weekend at both the 2007 Prague World Cup for women and the 2007 Warsaw World Cup for men – winning a medal at each, a gold from Sarah Clark (-63kg) and a bronze won by Winston Gordon (-90kg).

European Champion Clark beat Germany’s Claudia Ahrens, Maryn Gubaryeva of the Ukraine and 2004 European Champion Sara Alvarez of Spain to reach the semi final. Alice Schlesinger of Israel didn’t stand in Clark’s way next, with the Edinburgh player beating the former junior World medallist by ippon. In the final Clark took the gold from Poland’s Paulina Rainzuk.

In Warsaw Gordon won bronze after disposing of Yves Matthieu Dafreville of France in the bronze medal match. Gordon had a good start winning Tamas Nemeth of Hungary and Milan Randi of the Slovak Republic but a loss to Japan’s Tatsuki Masubuchi left him fighting in the repechage. Despite the defeat, Gordon came back strong to make himself in contention for the medal. The bronze medal is a good result for Gordon who has recently returned from injury and the win will put him in good standing for the European Championships.

Other results at the weekend were a 7 th from Peter Cousins, who was fighting at -100kg in preparation for his European Championship appearance, where he has been selected at the heavier weight. Michelle Rogers also finished in 7th in the –78kg weight category in Prague.

From 19th - 22nd March a British delegation will attend the EJU Tata Training Camp, which will take place at the Olympic Training Centre in Hungary. It will be here at the British European Championships team will make some of their final preparations.

Gold medallist Sarah Clark

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