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East of Ireland Championships 2008

Ashbourne Judo Club once again hosted the East of Ireland championships on the 27th April. There were 13 clubs represented on the day including one from the U.K. Westcroft Judo Club. There were many familiar faces from last year and plenty of new clubs to Ashbourne showing a healthy increase in entries from last year

First up were the -25 boys with Adam Collison of Black Eagle who was in fine form taking gold. Next one of the best groups of the day the -28 boys with Eoin Flynn of Ashbourne storming to gold with 4 Ippons each in less than 30 seconds, James Grouse of St. Josephs took silver.

Meanwhile on Mat One the junior girls were in action with Erin McGinnity of Cavan getting gold in the -25’s and in their first competition twin sisters Sinead and Aoife Bolger-Yale taking silver and bronze. Next in the -28’s Kayleigh Coleman of Black Eagle took gold in a trend which had Black Eagle dominate the junior events getting a total of 5 Gold medals and numerous silver and bronzes.

In the boys -31 event Warren Reilly of Cavan took the honours and leading a club charge fellow club members took silver and both bronzes as well. The boys -37 and -45 events provided the 2 biggest groups of the day and 3 of the contenders for Junior Player of the Day in Christian Milotte (-37) Brett Milotte and Edgaras Milevicius (-45), the other 2 contenders were Eoin Flynn (-28’s) and Andrew Flynn (-50’s). The trophy went to Christian Milotte of Westcroft Judo Club who also took gold in the -37 event with some wonderful displays and Brendan Mullen of Ippon Sambo/Judo got the silver.

The girls event continued on Mat One with Anfisa Speranskey of DSJ dominating the -36 taking gold and Junior Female Player of the Day with Black Eagle sharing the rest of the honours in the group.

Newcomers to Ashbourne Castleblayney Judo Club took gold and silver in the +57’s with Vaida Visinskaite and Viktorija Gudauskaite.

In the men’s event Colin Kiernan of Rosmini continued his domination winning 3 golds in the -90, open and upper kyu although he was pushed hard, as ever, by David Kane in the open and upper kyu. In the +90 category Jason Fitzpatrick of Ashbourne was the surprise of the day beating Cyrille and Morgan Kergot of NUIM with a powerful display getting gold and senior Male Player of the Day.

This was a great day for Ashbourne Judo Club who benefited from home advantage and overall dominated the day’s events with 6 golds and a total medal haul of 18 plus Senior Male and Female Players of the Day in Jason Fitzpatrick and Claire O’Brian.

A great days judo was had by all in good humour and enthusiasm and a special word of thanks to all who helped out by refereeing, doing tables and all the other unsung jobs with patience and dedication without which these competitions could not run.

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