ENFIELD judoka Philip Awiti-Alcaraz won the bronze medal at the 2016 Budapest Grand Prix on Sunday.
Awiti-Alcaraz took on the 2013 World Champion Elkhan Mammadov and defeated him in less than a minute with a Seoi Nage move.
The 22-year-old, who trains at the British Judo Centre of Excellence, said he was happy with his performance at the event.
He added: āI knew I could medal and I believed I would get to the final but Iām really pleased with my first Grand Prix medal.ā
On the road to his bronze medal, Awiti-Alcaraz won against Austrian Laurin Boehler as he forced his opponent to tap out.
Soyib Kurbonov was next up in the quarter-finals and Awiti-Alcaraz was countered well while going on the attack and found himself going into the repechage where a solid victory over Oleksandr Romanyuk secured his place in the bronze medal match.
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