Judo team strike silver for Britain
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Your support makes all the difference.Great Britain's judo team landed a silver medal in the World Student Games here yesterday. Georgina Singleton, Sophie Cox, Karen Roberts, Kate Howey and Michelle Roberts were beaten 3-2 in the final by the home nation after putting up a terrific fight. The Britons had edged Japan 3-2 in their semi-final following earlier maximum-point hauls against Ukraine and Brazil.
But the British football team could not emulate their judo counterparts as they missed out on a place in the semi-finals after a dramatic penalty shoot-out defeat to Japan. Luke Anderson's header 10 minutes from time cancelled out an earlier own-goal and set up the shootout which the lost 7-6.
In the tennis competition, Matt Hanlin fought his way into the quarter-finals with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 win over France's Franck Osvald, but his team-mate Iain Bates lost out to Russia's Philippe Moukhometov. In the women's competition Amanda Janes, the daughter of the former Wimbledon champion Christine Truman, beat the fifth-seeded German, Susanne Lohrmann, 6-3 6-3.
Britain's basketball team lost their unbeaten record against the United States, eventually slipping to a 91-62 defeat.
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