DEVIZES Judo Club has again made its mark on the national stage with several of their competitors securing medals in national championship events.

Amy Oram started the run of success by claiming a bronze at the A Band National Championships in Dagenham.

The only Devizes player taking part, the 11-year-old lost her first fight at U32 kgs level to a competitors from Parkwood Judo Club, in Kent.

After a re-evaluation of tactics with her coach, she then set out on her task to win the bronze medal via the repechage system, but with 16 competitors in her weight group, she needed four staright wins to achieve the feat.

Three convincing Ippon throws in her next three fights set up a contest for the bronze medal with an opponent from Wolverhampton Both players went in to ground work, resulting in Oram pinning her oppoenent for 25 seconds and winning the bronze, to the delight of mat-side coach Richard Hopkins.

Four Devizes players went to the Age Banded National Championships in Sheffield, including Jemima Duxberry (U57 kgs) and Hollie Gorton (U70 kgs).

Fourteen-year-old Duxberry, looking for her seventh National Champion-ships medal, beat her opponents convincingly to reach the final, but failed to get the decision in the showpiece fight and took home a silver medal.

Gorton, also fighting in her category (U70 kgs) for the first time, performed magnificently.

She was beaten by Ksenia Voronova, representing Scotland but of Russian decent, but fought on to win a bronze, her third national medal of her judo career.

Charlotte Emery and Pammie Luffman competed in the Pre-Cadet Girls section but returned home without medals from their first national championships.

The National Senior trails take place in January and should feature Devizes’ Jason Parsons and Tom Reed in the U73 kgs and U81kgs respectively.