UK announces team squad for 2018 World Judo Championships in Baku

Baku. 22 August. REPORT.AZ/ The UK has announced team squad for 2018 World Judo Championships to start on September 20 in Baku.

Report informs that the team includes 14 judokas. Three of them will participate in men’s competition, 9 in women’s competition and 2 in mixed competition together with these sportsmen.

The team members include London 2012 Olympian Danny Williams, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sally Conway and 2017 World Championships bronze medallists Nekoda Smythe-Davis and Natalie Powell.

Danny Williams, 29, will make his first appearance at a World Championships since 2011. Chelsie Giles, Jemima Yeats-Brown, Stuart McWatt and Wesley Greenidge will appear at their first World Championships.

GB squad:

Men: Ashley McKenzie (-60kg), Stuart McWatt (-81kg), Max Stewart (-90kg), Danny Williams (-73kg), Wesley Greenidge (+90kg)

Women: Nekoda Smythe-Davis (-57kg), Alice Schlesinger (-63kg), Sally Conway (-70kg), Gemma Howell (-70kg), Natalie Powell (-78kg), Sarah Adlington (+78kg), Chelsie Giles (-52kg), Amy Livesey (-63kg), Jemima Yeats-Brown (-78kg)

Mixed

Men: Danny Williams (73kg), Wesley Greenidge (90 kq)