FOUR Bath teenagers have scooped five medals at the British Under-19 Judo Championships at Crystal Palace.

Eighteen-year-old Oldfield School student Steven Edwards took gold in the boys' under-90 kg fight.

Steven took five fights with clean throws, which gained a perfect score for the schoolboy who has a proven track record of silver and bronze awards at this event.

Steven said: "I have won the nationals previously and taken silvers and a bronze. I was more prepared for this year's event and wanted to win a lot more."

He describes his year of training at TeamBath as 'instrumental to this year's win' and says the hard training was enjoyable.

He said: "I have been with TeamBath for one year now and we prepare as a team. It was quite hard, but I had been out for a while with injury so I really enjoyed it."

"The fights were hard but I didn't think about that at the time."

Dominique Spencer took her fifth medal at the championships, taking the silver in the girls' under-78kg class.

The 17-year-old, who trained for six weeks before the event, missed gold when she lost a match in the final of her class.

Dominique said: "It was all right, I was a little bit rested and felt I could have done better."

A full-time athlete with TeamBath, she is studying HND Coach Education and Sports Performance at Bath University and has studied judo since the age of five.

Eighteen-year-old Kimberly Aspinall took her third gold at this year's event, reversing an earlier defeat in the competition to win the under-78kg title for the second year.

Kimberly said she was confident about securing the gold. She said: "I kind of expected to get it, I won it before."

Seventeen-year-old Ben Naunton took three medals at the event, gaining gold in the boys' under 60kg weight category.

Ben is studying for an HND in Coach Education and Sports Performance at the university. Sian Wilson, a 17-year-old Londoner recruited to TeamBath, secured a gold win in the girls' under-78 kg class. She recently took seventh place in the World Junior Championships in Tunisia.