ISAAC Hill certainly made his mark before moving up a weight from Under 60 kilos to Under 66 kilos after he came home from the Northern Ireland Open Championships in Belfast with another two medals.
In the Junior (Under 21 years) the Kendal Judo Club member wasted no time in showing he was in good form with a 21 second win using a major outer reaping throw for Ippon against Northern Ireland’s Tiarman McGilloway.
His second contest against Aaron Hales from Huddersfield took twice as long (44 seconds) before a straight armlock put him into the final.
The final went the full four minutes against Judo Scotland’s David Ferguson but a small score from a hip throw halfway through the fight gave the gold Hill
In the Senior Category, Hill started well this time taking less than a minute to throw Alan Hamilton from West Calder with his favourite hip throw (O Goshi).
It was another hip throw against Reece Howard from Camberley which put him into his second final of the day against his opponent of the Junior Final, David Ferguson.
This contest became the longest of the day in the whole Championships, taking well over seven minutes it only ended with a slight unfair penalty against Hill to give the Scottish player the gold.
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