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Clitheroe’s Luke wins byTKOat Villa Park


Clitheroe boxer Luke Blackledge collected a second-successive victory against Darren McKenna at Villa Park on Saturday.


As the 23-year-old re­ builds his reputation fol­ lowing November’sToss to Rocky Fielding for the Commonwealth Super


S ilve r medahSamanthaMurray and Joe Evans won B ritain'sfirstm edal atthe Modem PentathlonEuropean Championships in Hungary on Monday


By Chris Boden chris.boden@jpress.co.uk


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Samantha Murray added mixed relay silver to her eighth place finish at the Modern Pentathlon European Championships in Hungary.


On Monday, Murray and Joe


, EvanswonBritain’sfirstmed- al of the championships, de­ nied gold byjust three seconds after going into the run/shoot


' at Szekesfehervar with a22-sec- ond lead over Lithuanian's reigning Olympic champion


and world number one Laura Asadauskaite, and reigning world champion Justinas Kin- deris. Murray, Britain’s London


2012 Olympic silver medallist, held off run/shoot specialist Asadauskaite for her two shoots and two 8oom legs. But Kinderis passed Evans


on their first running leg and couldn’t overhaul the Lithua­ nian. The British pair made a


strong start, winning 25 of their /J4 fencing bouts, putting them joint third alongside Lithuania.


Ukraine and Belarus, were


the joint leaders with 27 wins. Evans produced a strong


finish to win the 2x100m free­ style swim and move Britain top of the leaderboard. Murray trailed France’s Elodie Clouvel at the halfway mark, but Evans’ powerful finish overhauled Si­ mon Casse. The British pair’s time saw


them move into a six-point lead over Ukraine, with Belarus a further eight points back. Murray and Evans also


produced a near flawless per­ formance in the riding arena,


droppingjust one point from the maximum 300. That kept them in the lead


. ahead of the run/shoot, where they werejust pegged back. Murray was earlier one of


four British women to quali­ fy for the individual final, and was the highest placed British finisher, coming home eighth ahead of Freyja Prentice in ninth, Kate French in 13th and 2012 world champion Mhairi Spence in 20th. The scores achieved by


French, Murray and Spence in the individual competition


counted towards the team event, where Britain were


just edged out of the medals in fourth.


Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB


Performance Director, said: “We were hoping for a team


medal, but our shooting let us down. Some of the athletes put too much pressure on them­


selves with their expectations. . Hopefully that’s a lesson we’ve


learned. Overall I’m not too dis­ appointed,” he added. “We are still a work in progress and We have a few weeks to prepare for the World Championships.”


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^Middleweight title on the undercard of Froch v Groves I at Manchester’s Phones 4U Arena, Black- ledge added to April’s win over Jody Meikle at Colne Muni in the Holte Suite in Birmingham. He won by TKO, with


referee Gareth Morris stopping the fight after one minute 29 seconds in the third of four scheduled three-minute rounds. Blackledge put McK­


enna down late in the first round, and again in the third before the stoppage, as he moved his record to 16-2-2. He said: “I’m really hap­


py with that, I trained by socks off - drill after drill on my technique, foot­ work. Complete boxing training.”


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