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A workforce of sambo wrestlers just lately took half within the British Sport Sambo Open Championships in Folkstone with 5 of the six opponents bringing home eight medals. The workforce from Sunderland Red Star Sambo Club in Roker coached by Barry Gibson, 48 together with members from South Tyneside headed to the competitors to compete towards different sambo wrestlers.
Sambo wrestling was designed and utilized by the Soviet Red Army within the early Nineteen Twenties in a bid to enhance their hand-to-hand fight expertise.
The membership noticed a win from Adam Jones, 29, from South Shields who has been coaching on the membership for simply 10 months.
Adam had entered two competitions previous to this one bagging himself silver and bronze medals and was in a position to safe a bronze medal at this competitors.
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Stanislav Struzhanoff, 39, from Latvia, residing in Dishforth, earned himself a silver medal within the masters division shedding to an MMA legend and BJJ black belt. He then went on to safe a bronze medal within the senior division.
Mark Stuck, 38, additionally from South Shields entered the masters and senior divisions taking silver medals in each, solely narrowly shedding out in each finals.
Barry’s son Jake, 19 of Whitburn, was preventing above his ordinary weight class and gained a British title, his second having gained the junior British Open two years earlier than!! Jake was additionally honoured by the British Sambo Federation (BSF) in profitable the Martin Clarke Memorial Shield.
Head coach Barry of Whitburn additionally competed for the primary time in two years attributable to damage and went on to dominate his opponents to take his fifth British Open gold medal so as to add to his World Masters bronze medal, and Commonwealth gold medal from earlier years.
“My membership has been working for 11 years now, and for some time it was simply me competing and travelling round, now we now have a workforce that aren’t solely persistently competing, but additionally they’re reaching medal spots too! It’s superb to see and to look at their growth over time.
“There are actually seven members of the membership who shall be eligible to characterize Team GB in sambo at home and overseas.
“The success of the lads on the British Open and the opposite recent occasions have meant extra to me than my very own! It’s superb to see their progress and watch them reaching and exceeding potential.”
