SAMURAI Judo Club turned out in force to support the Brain Tumour Charity Judo Championships in Wales.

The Kidderminster club not only provided players but also a number of officials, referees and a first aid team for the event in Newport, which raised more than £2,000.

In the junior sections Samurai players participated in four age bands.

The youngest was ten year-old Josh Walker who finished with a bronze medal.

British Champions James Harrison and Harry Ashen were in dominant form and both bagged golds in their age band.

Sophie Davis took silver in her own weight group, under 48 kilos, and followed up with another silver in the under 52 kilos group.

Cerys Jones and Dillon Walker both took bronze in their age band.

The under 55 kilos category saw Jake Ashen joined by James Harrison who had been allowed to compete above his own age band.

On the one side of the draw, Ashen won four contests out of four while Harrison came through the other side of the draw with five wins out of five to make it an all-Samurai final which was won by Ashen.

Martin Allen claimed silver in the oldest of the four junior age bands while Olivia Turner won gold in the cadet age band.

Turner was the first Samurai player to take gold on the second day of competition in the under 20 age band before adding a silver in the senior event.

In the senior men British Masters Champion Gary Knight was unstoppable and took the gold medal before repeating the result in the masters.

Rob Alloway also took gold in the masters and put in a good performance in the seniors but, after a marathon eight minute contest against a much younger player, he lost the semi-final and had to settle for bronze.

Paul Moss was last to compete. The 57-year-old sixth dan had some good wins in his veterans age band before losing his semi-final.

He came back well to win his final contest to take the bronze - the club’s eighteenth medal of the weekend.