European Cup Juniors Kaunas 2013, Lithuania, 4/5 May

European Cup Juniors Kaunas 2013, Lithuania
4th & 5th May 2013

Full results at
Results Kaunas 2013

GBR Results
BOYS
-55 kg Isaac Gagin win loss bye win win BRONZE
-55 kg Peter Miles win win win win GOLD
-55 kg Joe Young win loss bye loss 7th Place
-60 kg Samuel Hall win win win win GOLD
-66 kg Benjamin Attwood loss
-66 kg Joshua Hill win win win loss loss 5th Place
-66 kg Connor Ireland bye win win loss loss 5th Place
-66 kg Adam Khalik loss
-66 kg Aiden Moffat win loss
-73 kg Liam Ashton-Farr bye win loss
-73 kg Mason Jones bye win loss loss
-73 kg Lasha Lekishvilli bye win loss
-73 kg Thomas Little loss
-81 kg Matthew Kavanagh bye win win loss loss 5th Place
-81 kg Max Stewart win win win win win GOLD
-90 kg Samuel Potts bye win win loss loss 5th Place

GIRLS
-48 kg Harkirat Sekhon bye loss win win loss 5th Place
-48 kg Hayley Willis win loss bye win loss 5th Place
-52 kg Jade Lewis win win loss loss 9th Place
-52 kg Kelly Staddon bye loss
-57 kg Bekky Livesey bye win win loss win BRONZE
-57 kg Kirsty Powell bye loss win win win loss 5th Place
-57 kg Charlie Sala-Nairne win win loss win loss 7th Place
-57 kg Julia Scardone bye loss loss
-63 kg Jemima Duxberry bye win win loss win BRONZE
-63 kg Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown bye win win win win GOLD
-70 kg Ebony Drysdale-Daley win loss bye loss 7th Place
-70 kg Natasha Maslen bye win loss loss 5th Place
+78 kg Lucy Chamberlain win loss bye win win BRONZE

European Cup Juniors Kaunas 2013
MEDAL TABLE

2013/05/06 | 11:16 am | in EJU, Youth
Russian and British juniors in form at Junior European Cup Kaunas

At the European Cup for Juniors in Kaunas (LTU) the Russian juniors dominated the event. With seven out of 16 gold medals, Russia topped the medal tally. In total the Russian team collected 19 medals.

In total 15 nations participated and 11 nations won a medal. Also the British athletes showed their best efforts taking four gold medals and they didn’t lose any final. Belarus, Poland, Finland and Slovenia were also among the winning nations.

The victory of Max Stewart (GBR) U81kg was impressive. His final only took 7 seconds.

One of the toughest finals was the one between Zarina Babinyan (RUS) and Katri Kakko (FIN) the category U52 kg. Babinyan won the exhausting final, it was the longest final fight of all.

The Lithuanian Judoka claimed 6 medals, 3 Silver and 3 Bronze. Some Lithuanian women sportsmen are winning medals in Kaunas Junior Cup for past 3-4 years. Renalda Gedutytė won her fourth medal. This weekend she prolonged last year’s title U70kg. Diana Kiskel won her second medal, this time silver, last year bronze, although in Tartu this year she was already successful with gold.

The European Cup in Kaunas has had some strong winner in the past who are now performing at the highest level. Former winners are among others Karolis Bauza, who recently won a bronze medal at the European Senior Championships in Budapest, Juhan Metis (EST), Lisa Kearney (IRE), Dzmitry Shershan: all participants at Euro2013. Also Daria Pogorzelec (POL) won the tournament in 2008 and she finished seventh at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Kaunas was the sixth out of 13 events this year in advance of the European Junior Championships which will be held in Sarajevo (BIH) this year in September.