A 26-year-old judo champion who trains at Bradley Stoke Judo Club is set to achieve a childhood dream by representing Team GB at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. Lele Nairne, who has been attending the club at Bradley Stoke Active Lifestyle Centre for more than half her life, will compete in the 57kg weight category on Monday 29th July.
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Bradley Stoke Judo Club player Tatum Keen has shot up from 90th to 18th in the world rankings following an outstanding silver medal-winning performance at a prestigious international competition in Croatia. The success has come despite Tatum suffering a serious knee injury at the Adidas International Judo Cup in The Hague last November. Overcoming injury and illness, Tatum battled through
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A report by Nathan Young, secretary of Bradley Stoke Judo Club. Firstly, we would like to congratulate the Thornbury judoka and friend of the club Sally Conway on her fantastic bronze at the Rio Olympics. Sally produced some fantastic judo and was very unlucky not to find herself in the gold medal fight. Sally is a true inspiration to our
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Bradley Stoke Judo Club has grown significantly over the past couple of years and is proud to boast members who attend from as far afield as Wales, Swindon, Bath, Weston, Cirencester and Cheddar. However, nothing pleases the club coaches more than when locally based members achieve success and reach new levels of excellence. The latest club member to achieve this
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The Bradley Stoke Town FC (BSTFC) A and B teams have both progressed to the next round of the cup following their matches last weekend. The game between the A Team and Filton Athletic took place on the top field of the Jubilee Centre. A successful game for the A team, the final score ending up 4-3, and beating a team
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Bradley Stoke Town Football Club’s (BSTFC’s) season is nearly over now and Saturday afternoon was the last game for the A Team. The team faced Stanton Drew in manager Chris Laslett’s last game in charge but things didn’t go their way as they stepped off the gas, losing 4-0. The first goal, only a couple of minutes into the game,
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On Sunday morning there was some excellent football on show at St Ursula’s Academy where league leaders Bradley Stoke Youth FC’s Under-10 Girls took on a third place Westbury Foxes side in a game to secure second place in the Bristol Girls’ League. The game started really brightly with both teams having a chance to attack. Kayleigh Jennings coming close
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On Saturday, Bradley Stoke Netball Club’s (BSNC) 2nd team took on Team Bath seconds in a hard fought game that saw Bradley Stoke come away with a 53-41 victory. Last time the two sides met, Bath came away winners, so Bradley Stoke looked to get off to a good start. They ran away with the lead in the first two
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Bradley Stoke Judo Club is flying high at the moment! In September, members of the club competed at the Welsh Open and came away with a clutch of medals. Golds for Miles Nelson, Stephanie Walker, Lele Nairne, Pete Miles, Toby Attwood and Ryan Rijkesen Salmen. That’s an amazing six gold medals and not content with that they also picked up
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Two Bradley Stoke Judo Club players have won the top two medals in their categories at the prestigious 2012 Commonwealth Judo Championships, held yesterday (Tuesday 24th January) at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. The players, Steph Walker and Lele Nairne (both just 14 years of age), won first the silver medal and then Lele bagged the gold and title of
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