Boys Cadet Squad 2003.

26^th January 2003. 

This was our first International Competition of the year – Groesbeek is always a well attended  hard fought match and this year was exactly the same, with 850 competitors from Czech Republic; Israel; Germany;  France; Belgium; Romania; Cyprus; Great Britain and obviously the Dutch. 

Our team consisted of initially 83 players, in three age categories, 1989/89 –  1987/88 & 1984/85/86. Due to injury several players withdrew prior to our departure – but we still had enough players to fill two Coach’s and set off to Holland to give of our best. 

Ramsay Thomson – was the Head of our Delegation, with  Support Coach’s; Tony Macconnell; Trevor Sitlinton; Michael Liptrot; Dave Clark; John Blakely; Lou Kerr; Clark Nutter. Medical Support – Innes Morton.

Results:1989/90
Golds:	Silver:	Bronze:
Ashley Mckensie U34kgs Jean-Rene Badrick U55kgs	Phillip Wassell U34kgs Gary Hall U41kgs Russell Parker U50kgs	Athony Jessop U45kgs Nathan Burns  U50kgs
5th Place:
Results: 1987/88:
Golds:	Silver:	Bronze:
Marcus Bascombe U60kgs	Scott Malone U45kgs Adam Green U60kgs Jayson Fairbairn 081kgs	Chris Turnbull U50kgs Tom Holton U66kgs Jesse Belardo U73kgs Luke Hughes O81kgs
5th Place: Chris Prince U50kgs; Khalid Gehlin U55kgs; Vincent Skillcorn U60kgs;       Leon Gordon U66kgs; Richard Reed U73kgs; Chris Wallis O81kgs & Ben Lannie U81kgs
Results: 1984/85/86
Golds:	Silver:	Bronze:
Ashley Hutchinson U55kgs Tom Reed U66kgs	Jon Spencer U55kgs Julian Kerr U73kgs
Total Medals:19 5 Gold - - 8 Silvers - - 6 Bronze

 1989/90.

Our first success in this age group came with excellent performances in the U34kgs category – with Ashley Mckensie defeating Phillip Wassell in the final, both  of them fought well to get to there, with the Gold medal going to Ashley and the Silver to Phillip.

Gary Hall  at U41kgs and Russell Parker U50kgs both gained well earned Silver medals in their respective weights with some hard work and some good techniques.

            Nathan Burns & Anthony Jessop in U50kgs & U45kgs respectively took

             Bronze medals in their first Cadet International. This was a good start for this group of young players many of them new to the Cadet Squad and Judo at this level and an early introduction to armlocks and strangles in competition, which they all coped with very well.  Jean-Rene Badrick U55kgs won our final medal of the group, taking the Gold with a series of good wins demonstrating some terrific Judo.  Medals didn’t go to all our players,  in this category but they showed that they had the will and determination to succeed.                                   

1987/88.

This is perhaps the most important year group, for many years, with both the European Youth Olympic Festival and the European Cadet Championships being held within a month in July and August 2003. The majority of our Squad within this age group were there, Groesbeek is the first of our selection events for the above Championships, the majority of the weight categories were well supported, with plenty of good opposition. 

We took medals in all the weight categories within this group with Marcus Bascombe and Adam Green, perhaps showing the best Judo in the group, with some tremendous competitive Judo, fighting through their quarters – both having good victories in the semi-finals to meet in the final of the U60kgs – with Marcus coming out on top, taking the Gold and the Silver for Adam (36 players).

Scott Malone U46kgs took a Silver in this group winning his KO sheet, only to lose in the final to Rolf van Baarsen (26 players). Scott has moved up from U42kgs at which he won the Nationals in November. At U90kgs our final Silver medal went to Jayson Fairbairn, in a small group of 7 players, Jayson lost in the final to Michel Velthoen.

We took four bronze medals with Chris Turnbull U50kgs, losing his first KO match to Jamy Kromosemito (eventual winner), into the Repechage, winning four further match’s before defeating Albert Westerhof for the Bronze. (25 players).

           Tom Holton new to the Cadet Squad took a well earned Bronze in a hard 

            fought  66kg group -  he won his quarter with three wins – losing to Yair

            Benshbath – Israel, for a place in the final – he had a good victory Nick

            Zwartjens to gain his first Cadet medal (30 players) Jesse Belardo U73kgs

Fought well after losing his initial match – coming in through the Repechage with four wins to take just reward. Our final medal went to Luke Hughes 081kgs, he had three wins in the contest – losing to Jayson Fairbairn.

We also had some good performance’s with  many boys taking 5^th places.

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1984/85/86.

This age group at Groesbeek is always a difficult one in which we struggle to get results, our players in this group are normally our most experienced Squad Members, again the weights were well supported – the U55kgs category, final, was well contested, with Ashley Hutchinson Gold defeating Jonathan Spencer  Silver, in a hard fought match. Tom Reed U66kgs continued his progress taking a Gold medal  in a very competitive weight – this after qualifying for the Junior Men’s Squad in December.                                      .

Our final medal went to Julian Kerr U73kgs, he too fought hard to gain a well earned Silver medal

It was an excellent event for our boys  - in all ages and categories, an ideal tournament at which our players are tested and introduced to International Competition. Thanks must go to all the Cadet Squad Coach’s for their hard work and effort over the weekend – the players who competed, their Coach’s and parents  who supported  the Squad in Holland.

Groesbeek is located 10 km south

east of the town of Nijmegen and close to the German frontier