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Luke lands WBC b elt w ith w in overK otey
Clitheroe fighter Luke BlackledgeisthenewWBC International Silver super middleweight champion.
The 24-year-old beat Gha naian Philip Kotey via a unanimous decision after 10 rounds at King George’s Hall in Blackburn. Ringside judges Alvin
World beater: Samantha Murray celebrates her200mfreestyleshort course world record,on thewaytoModern Pentathlon World Championship gold Picture: UIPM Photo
Finch, Mark Lyson and Shaun Messer all scored the contest 100-91 to land Blackledge the third strap of his career. “It was a hard fight, a bit
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Samantha Murray is the new modern pentathlon world champion!
West Bradford’s Samantha, 24,
. became only the fourth Brit ish woman to win individual Modern Pentathlon World Championshipgoldin Warsaw
^ f ’on Friday, on the back of win- ' ning bronze at the 2012 World
0 Championships in Rome and silver at the London 2012 Ol ympics.
Her performance includ
ed a modern pentathlon short course world record for the 200m freestyle. “It doesn’t feel real,” said Sa
mantha. “I’ve worked so hard for this and I’ve been aiming for this competition for a while. To
’ be able to say I’m world cham pion is absolutely fantastic. I dreamed of this so often and now my dream has come true. “When I started to relax and
smile, all the work 1 have put in came through. I couldn’t believe how easy the combined event felt. I was really on top of it.
My co a ch e s Istvan
(Nemeth) Frici (Foldes) and Jan (Bartu) have had so much
faith in me. They’ve given me so much support and pushed me when I needed it and my train ing partners have been great. I owe a massive thank you to so many people.” Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB
Performance Director, said: “It was a world class performance. It’s fantastic to see her back be cause it hasn't been easy for her overthelastyear. “She decided to go for it and this is the reward for the hard
work. She showed maximum composure in the combined event. From her first shot she was absolutely relaxed and she kept a fantastic rhythm.” Samantha started her cam
paign by winning 18 of her 34 fencing bouts to put her
joint 14th. She then produced a storming swim to climb to second place, with her.time of 2:03.84 a 200m freestyie mod ern pentathlon world record in a short course pool. Samantha kept up her mo
mentum with a steady round in the riding arena as she went
clear, but incurred six time pen alties to go into the combined event in third, 16 seconds be hind leader Sarolta Kovacs. On the run/shoot, Samantha
moved past Kovacs into the lead on the second offour8oom run ning legs. She shot calmly and her lead never looked in doubt,. and she crossed the finish line
triumphantlywithahugesmile on her face. And there was a double cel ebration as Samantha, Freyja
Prentice and Kate French’s per formances saw Great Britain take team silver behind China.
of a war at times, so I was happy to get 10 rounds un der my belt,” he said. “A lot of people said that it was the fight of the night so I’m pleased with that. “He was an awkward op
ponent and he couldpunch. He kept looking for the big
shots to try and knock me out but that forced me to
■ switch on. “Ijust had to keep my de
fence tight and press him whenever I could. I landed some big shots. I was hap py with my performance. I stuck to the game plan and pretty much won every round.”
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