Bumper crowd at 10th Anniversary Awards Dinner

The 10th Anniversary British Judo Awards Dinner proved to be another great celebration of volunteers, coaches, referees and players from across the Association on Saturday 5 November at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham.

This year’s event was the biggest to date with 302 people in attendance and they were treated to an evening of celebration and entertainment including: a giant scalextric; Blackjack and Roulette tables; a Ferrero Rocher Pyramid of 480 Ferrero Rochers and a silent auction. The evening was then brought to a close with a fireworks display.

Unsurprisingly one of the biggest cheers of the evening was for our Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Sally Conway as she was presented with the Senior Female Player of the Year award while Colin Oates also received a standing ovation in absentia as he won the Senior Male Player of the Year award.

However the emotional highlight of the night was for Steph Inglis as she was presented with the President’s Award.  She received a huge standing ovation and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house as she made her way on stage.

Our #2016JudoAwards President’s Award 2016 goes to @stephinglisjudo! pic.twitter.com/M3HUrgOpjm

— #WeAreGBJudo (@BritishJudo) November 5, 2016

British Judo would like to thank our national partners CIMAC and Pharmanutricals for their support of the event and CSE, Perkins Slade and Destination Judo for sponsoring some of the awards