LAURA Dangerfield excelled for Samurai with four medals during a mini tour of Belgium.

Hetty Tinsdale and Toni Poulson also won three medals between them.

The trio first went to the Brecht Open, just outside Antwerp, on the Saturday.

Tinsdale started the ball rolling in the cadet under-63kg kilogram category, reaching the final with some decisive wins before losing to a good throw and having to settle for silver.

Poulson, also in the cadets but in U57kg section, added a bronze with some determined work.

Dangerfield started in the senior women’s U70kgs category and stormed to victory by winning all of her contests comfortably to take the gold.

She then entered the women’s open weight category and this was harder, but again she reached the final against a former ju-jitsu world championship player and, after a tough battle, Laura emerged the winner by two scores to one to take her second gold of the day.

The next day, the team went on to the Eernegem Open, just outside Bruges, which saw Poulson finishing seventh after defeat in the semi-final but Tinsdale won her second silver of the weekend.

Meanwhile, in the senior women, Dangerfield moved up to U78kg section and won her third gold medal.

Once again, the organisers held a women’s open category, and as always Laura was up for this.

Despite giving quite a bit of weight away – , however, and in her last two contests she was up against players weighing over 90kg – she won her semi-final with an excellent backwards throw and then defeated her opponent on the ground for maximum points in the final for gold.

Her four golds in two days at international events edges out Sarah Biles’s record of a few years ago.