Another set of competitions brought yet another fine haul of medals and titles for Dunmow TKD.

The club were at the new events for the first time but that didn't stop them performing at the highest standard.

Competition stalwarts, despite their age, Alyse and Ariella Dixon-Bellot, along with nine-year-old Anish Malladi, attended the British Taekwondo Council Championships at the University of Worcester Arena.

This was a competition open to multiple taekwondo associations with different height and weight categories

The Dixon-Bellot siblings were in the same sparring division for the very first time and it seemed almost inevitable the pair would meet in the final, 10-year-old Alyse edging out her 11-year-old sister.

Any sibling rivalry was resolved with each grabbing a medal in tag-team sparring.

Malladi, who has accompanied the girls to every national and regional competition for the past calendar year, was finally rewarded for his efforts with his first ever gold medal in tag-team sparring.

A much larger group of 30 were then on the road to the Lincolnshire Championships, a closed competition with an invitation-only policy.

and featured additional categories such as Speed Kicking and Flying Kicks for younger students.

The clubs rising reputation earned the invite and it allowed many of the younger Dunmow students to compete for the first time, the youngest being Pascal Kowalczyk, aged four, and the five-year-old pair, Hendrix Johnson and Hanna Bozso-Green.

All were undaunted though and Kowalczyk won silver in individual sparring, cheered on by sister Charlotte, who won three medals herself.

Johnson got bronze in the same sparring division.

Another debutant, six-year-old Harry Prowse, won bronze in patterns against some much older competitors, before adding another in sparring.

In all the club won five gold, seven silver and 17 bronze medals to finish second in the medal table behind Grimsby.

Instructor Matt Howard was thrilled to get a trophy for that achievement, putting it down to the "hard work of all our students".

He added: "We will definitely be returning to this competition for years to come and maybe one day we'll win it outright."

Dunmow TKD offer six classes a week and can be found at www.dunmowtkd.co.uk