Two college students from Wishaw’s Imaginative and prescient Taekwondo Academy have been chosen to symbolize Group GB at main championships.
Rachel Cringles and Siobhan Coe travelled down south earlier this month for choice occasions and got here high of their classes to safe qualification for the Underneath-21 European Championships and the Cadet World Championships, respectively.
It's the first time athletes have been chosen through qualifying somewhat than a subjective choice course of and membership coach Craig Eden is thrilled for his stars.
For Wishaw resident and senior under-49kg competitor Rachel, it additionally marks an enormous milestone, coming 10 years after becoming a member of the membership throughout its inception in 2012.
Craig defined: “Rachel was one in all our very first college students. She was there after we opened the membership in 2012 and we’ve simply celebrated our tenth anniversary on April 26 there.
“So she’s gone from that first night time to this, in order that’s nice for her and he or she’s trying ahead to going to Albania in October now.
“But it surely was a superb weekend for Siobhan as effectively.
“She received the beneath 44kg feminine cadets (12-14) to qualify and now goes to Sofia from the occasion on July 28.
“I’m over the moon for them as a result of they each work actually exhausting and everybody on the membership is delighted.
“Hopefully they will go and do rather well, and I imagine they’ve received nearly as good an opportunity as anybody.”
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