{"id":7332,"date":"2015-11-23T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:01:25","slug":"huntsville-fighters-win-silver-medals-at-ontario-open-judo-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsville-fighters-win-silver-medals-at-ontario-open-judo-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville fighters win silver medals at Ontario Open Judo Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huntsville fighters Jeff Allen and Ryan Clark are among the top judokas in the country after the pair earned silver medals at the Ontario Open Judo Championships held at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre earlier this month. Jeff’s medal came in the Veterans +100kg category, while Ryan competed in the U18 -90kg.<\/p>\n

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Fighters from all over the world enter the Ontario Open, which regularly attracts judoka from across Canada as well as the United States, England and Brazil. The high quality of competition is exactly what Jeff and Ryan look for as they train for the Canadian Nationals in Calgary next May.<\/p>\n

“It’s good competition, and it\u2019s always a hard day of fighting,” said Jeff of the Open, Canada’s second largest judo event. “It\u2019s pretty cool, you get the same sort of people who you would see at nationals compete there.”<\/p>\n

Doppler did a story back in September about Jeff<\/a>, who took up judo as a fun, healthy activity with his son Lucas in 2011. In the four years since, Jeff has cemented himself as the number one ranked Canadian fighter in his division, and is now ranked eighth in the world. He had a perfect day of fighting at the Open until losing to James McManus in the finals, a two time national champion himself and four time national medallist from New Brunswick.<\/p>\n\n\t\t