Bradford-based Kickers Black Belt Academy are rapidly emerging as the leading judo club in West York-shire.

Despite weight groups being combined, they won six golds, two silvers and five bronzes - a haul that put them at the top of the medal table - at the West Yorkshire Closed Champion-ship at Knottingley.

Lucy Jackson, of Wibsey Primary, only had one fight on her debut, but looked like a veteran.

She outclassed her opponent with a beautiful ko-uchigake to take gold. Knowleswood Pri-mary's Laura Grocock had to fight the Yorkshire champion twice, but the nine-year-old beat her both times in taking gold in the under-32 kilogram category.

On the way to the top of the podium, Laura beat training partner Megan Steinberg, eight, but the St Joseph's RC Primary pupil recovered to take bronze.

All this came after Megan and Emma Byrnes, nine, of Grove House Primary, finished in a tied pool and had to re-fight all their qualifying bouts. A finger injury put paid to Emma's medal chances in the second round of bouts.

Twins Emma and Lorraine Grocock, 12, of Tong School, both secured medals in a combined weight group, Lorraine taking gold and Emma a brave bronze against bigger opponents.

Meanwhile, ten-year-old Logan Gelder, of Tyersal Pri-mary, dominated his age group, excellent technique helping him to gold.

A perfect ippon seoinage helped ten-year-old Charles Grocock (Knowleswood Pri-mary) to a silver, All Saints Primary's Benjamin Bennett conquering his debut nerves to win a bronze.

The highlight of the men's competition was an entertaining under-81kg event, Kickers team-mates Khamis Naar and Pasha Bogoustovs being nip and tuck for gold.

The latter never gave up, despite trailing in many of his bouts, and his reward was gold, Naar taking silver.

Tony Devine cruised to victory in the over-81 kg event, Craig Tetley and Daniel Aston emerging with hard-earned bronzes.