Paris 2024 Selections!

Camberley Judo Club are proud to officially announce that three members of our Elite Team have been selected for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France!
Sydnee Andrews will make her Olympic debut representing New Zealand at +78kg. Sydnee has already won a Commonwealth Games bronze medal in 2022 and highlights during the qualification period include both Pan Am/Oceania and Croatia Grand Prix bronze medals.
John Jayne will also make his Olympic debut representing the USA at 90kg. The twenty seven year old also had an impressive qualification campaign culminating in a fantastic silver medal at the 2024 PanAm/Oceania champs in Rio.
Ashley McKenzie is the final Olympian selected from CJC-he will be representing Jamaica at 60kg. This will be Ashley’s fourth Olympic Games at the impressive age of thirty five having previously represented Team GB at the London, Rio and Tokyo Olympics. Ashley won both the Morocco and Côte d’Ivoire African Opens and placed 5th at the Austria Grand Prix during qualification.
Camberley head coach Luke Preston will proudly coach for Team Jamaica at the Games. Preston has previously coached for Team GB at London 2012 where Karina Bryant won an amazing bronze medal and for Team England at Glasgow 2014 and Birmingham 2022 where he was head coach.
A special mention must go to Yuliia Kurchenko 78kg representing Ukraine. Yuliia directly qualified for Paris 2024 with some amazing results including Grand Slam gold in Georgia. The 2023 under 23 European Champion has been named reserve for this Games and will look to qualify again for the LA Games in 2028.
We wish all our selected judoka the best and everyone in Camberley will be cheering for you!

 

 

Camberley Judo Club are delighted to announce that we have been granted official status from the Commonwealth Judo Association to become their first ever officially recognised training hub!

 

This is a great honour and means that judoka from all over the Commonwealth know they have a home and training base at Camberley when needed.

 

The club and training centre has a rich history with the Commonwealth Judo Association having hosted judoka from all over the globe in the last thirty years. In the build up to Birmingham 2022 there are currently athletes living and training at the club from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica and Cyprus.

 

In terms of Commonwealth success Camberley has multiple Commonwealth medallists and at Glasgow 2014 our judoka won 3 gold medals. Head coach Luke Preston has 5 Commonwealth medals to his name and was a coach for Team England at Glasgow 2014. At Birmingham 2022 he will lead Team England’s coaching team.

 

 

“Everyone at Camberley is committed to the development of judo in the Commonwealth and we will welcome all athletes to train at our centre. Having on site accommodation means that individuals or teams from the Commonwealth can come to Camberley to live and train for extended preparation periods”