JONES COMPLETES TAEKWONDO MEDAL TREBLE

Welsh teenager Jade Jones doubled Great Britain's medal tally on the final day of action at the WTF German Open in Hamburg.

In doing so, the 17-year-old from Flint secured a full set of senior medals from just two events in three weeks.

Jones was the last member of Britain's nine squad in action at the final major international meeting before the WTF World Championships in South Korea later this year.

And the 2010 Youth Olympic champion almost emulated Martin Stamper's golden moment over Turkey's Servet Tazegul in the -68kg category 24 hours earlier.

However, Jones just missed out on the -57kg title, losing 12-8 against Croatia's 2007 World silver medallist, Ana Zaninovic.

Her silver medal added to bronze in the same weight class at last month's US Open and the gold she snatched in the -62kg weight division at the same event.

The squad now return to the GB Taekwondo Academy in Manchester for final training ahead of the World Championships in Gyeongiu from May 1-6.

They are due to take part in behind closed doors Test matches against South Korean and Spanish squads.

Sarah Stevenson, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games bronze medallist, missed the US and German Opens for family reasons but has now returned to full training.

Results:

Men:

-68kg:

Round one: Michael Harvey lost 2-0 to Atila Juhasz (Hungary)
Quarter-finals: Tony Grisman lost 3-1 to Kairat Sarymsakov (Kazakhstan)
Final:Martin Stamper bt Servet Tazegul (Turkey) 17-11.

-74kg:

Round two: Ruebyn Richards lost to Aibar Dyussebayev (Kazakhstan)

-80kg:

Round One: Aaron Cook lost13-11 to Ramin Azizov (Azerbaijan), Mahama Cho lost 5-1 to Elias El Hedari (Lebanon), Andy Deer lost by golden point after it was 10-10 with his opponent Bobby Enright (Ireland).

Women:

-57kg:

Final: Jade Jones lost 12-8 to Ana Zaninovic (Croatia).

Junior Women:

-59kg

Round one: Sophie Dickson lost to Isabella Canella (Germany).

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