THE Wyre Forest Minimon Championships raised more than £200 for the Kidderminster Mayor's charities as well as allowing junior judo beginners a chance to gain their first medals.

Kidderminster's Samurai Judo Club ran the event because the charities were all for children.

As usual Samurai were highly successful, gaining a haul of 20 medals.

In the so-called "very little ones" category, for extremely light juniors, Jordy Disspain confirmed her growing status by taking the gold.

Samurai made a clean sweep with James Boles (silver), Kim Ingram (bronze) and Steven Wagstaff (bronze) taking medals.

There were not too many girls entries, so they were split into a lightweight group and an open.

Aimee Hodson swept the board in the lightweight girls section to take the gold, comfortably defeating a more experienced player from Shrewsbury.

Amy Evans and Abigail Muir took both the bronzes for the club.

All three of these players were also in the medals in the open, with Evans and Muir just edging out Danielle Hewitt into fifth place.

Hodson reached the final, where she faced a player over two stones heavier than herself and didn't quite have the experience to compensate, but a silver to add to her earlier gold was a good haul for the day.

Steven Wagstaff was also in action in the lightest boys weight, but he was giving just too much weight away and had to settle for the bronze.

Wesley Connor then swept to gold in the next boys group.

He won each contest on the way to the final by maximum points and the final was the best contest of the day against a very useful Dudley Leisure Centre player, which Connor eventually won comfortably by several scores.

In the next category, Lewis Osman-Moore marked his judo debut with a bronze and a good effort.

Ross Boyd, another debutant, did even better, winning three contests to end in a three-way tie for the gold, but then had to withdraw and had to settle for the other bronze.

In the next category was Lewis Mills he reached the final with three good wins and then comfortably won to take his first gold medal.

This left just two categories, both for the older boys. Richard Baulk made a very good debut for himself, with four wins taking him to the bronze medal and only losing to two more experienced players.

Then in the last category, Archie Shrimpton and Edward Acutt both took the bronzes for Samurai, but Christian Vivash did even better by reaching the final.

He had little chance against a much heavier and more experienced player but it was still a good day for Vivash who went home with the silver.

Sadly, Samurai were the only Wyre Forest club in the medals or contributing towards the charity fund-raising, but they still flew the flag for local judo by coming out on top overall. Worcester were runners-up and Dudley third.