In judo, you can’t predict anything that’s going to happen. “I was like, ‘you know what, don’t over think it, just get your grip, come in and throw her’, so I’m really happy. I was so hyped up for it as we had such a long gap between the preliminaries. I’ve just come off the mat, it was so quick,” she said.
The 21-year-old from Hertfordshire saw her dreams of gold in the -48kg category dashed at Birmingham 2022 after losing her last four contest to South Africa’s Michaela Whitebooi.īut she recovered from that disappointment in style against Malawian Harriet Bonface, executing an Ippon - the highest score a fighter can achieve in the sport - to secure bronze. From despair to joy in a heartbeat, judoka Amy Platten experienced the full spectrum of emotions as she shook off a semi-final defeat to claim Commonwealth Games bronze.
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