Euan Burton has continued his successful streak with a silver medal at the 2010 German Grand Prix at the weekend.
Adding to his gold medal win at the 2009 Tokyo Grand Slam late last year, Burton's victories will fare well in the build up to the European and World Championships in April and September of this year.
Surging through the -81kg preliminaries, Burton beat Loseb Tselauri of Georgia in the first round, Nick Hein of Germany in his second round fight and Emmanuel Lucenti of Argentina in the third round.
It didn’t take him long to win his semi-final fight against Robert Krawczyk of Poland with an ippon throw, after just one minute and six seconds on the mat.
Progressing to the final, Burton faced Jae-Bum Kim, the World ranked number one Korean player that the Brit beat in the final of the Tokyo Grand Slam. After a close five minutes, the fight ended on penalty points, Burton receiving three penalties to Kim’s two.
"I proved again that I can do it at the top level but losing in a final is always a disappointment," he said.
"Being left to the referee's decision is never the best way to win or lose."
Elsewhere, team mate Sarah Adlington finished in 5th place in the +78kg weight category. Adlington started off well, beating Beatrice Rietz of Germany in the first round, but was caught by Eva Bisseni of France in the second, who went on to take the silver medal.
Commenting on the results, Performance Director Margaret Hicks said. “Euan has put in another excellent performance and showed his class on fighting a very competitive final. He was unfortunate to lose out to Kim.
“Sarah Adlington continues to show potential in the +78kg weight category.”
Sarah Clark, the final player in the trio who competed in Dusseldorf, had less success in the -63kg weight category losing to Yarden Gerbi of Israel in the second round.
