54th EKF Senior Championships – Guadalajara 28th-31st March 2019
Shitokai and Scotland’s Amy Connell claimed a bronze medal at the Senior European Championships beating Jelena Maksimovic of Montenegro 4-3 in the -55Kg kumite. Amy is now a 3 times European bronze medalist having secured her first European Bronze 10 years ago at Cadet level, two years later at Junior and now at Senior level. Securing this latest bronze has guaranteed Amy a place at the 2019 Minsk European Games in June which is a key Olympic qualification event and has given her chances of Olympic qualification a massive boost.
Amy is pictured above with her medal and Scotland team mates and national coach Jim Ross.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/47763224
“Moments like this is what we do it all for”