CANVEY Island’s Phoenix Karate Club has eight new national champions in its ranks after a top showing at the JSKA National Championships.

The club sent competitors as young as six to compete, with 17 second places and eight third places also achieved.

Canvey’s Mai Pulham, 14, was named individual kumite champion, finishing second in the kata while his sister Piau Maprangon, 17, won the individual kata and came second in the kumite. Their younger sister Kathlenn came third in the kumite.

Elsewhere, Sensei Haley Marney came second to the current world champion in the kumite.

Trae Gulutu, 11, from Ramsden Heath is kata national champion, Liam Dunmore, 12, from Canvey took the same honour in the kumite and came third in the kata, with Nick Gosnold and Ralph Overill third in the team kata.

Lacey Dunmore, came third in the kata and second in the team kata with Mylie Rice and Millie Betts. Jaimee Leigh Beadle, eight, from Canvey, is national champion in the individual kata.

Ghazi Charibi, 14, from Basildon, won the individual kumite in his first competition and also came second in the kata with Keston Bayraktar third in both.

Hollie Braybrook, from Canvey, was awarded second in the kata and third in the kumite, losing out to Rice who came second.

Chloe Barsby and Amelia Wigington were both awarded second in both individual kata and kumite in their age groups.

Mahin Renton was second in the kata, as was Daniel Cooper, seven, in the kata with sister Monica, 10, second in the kumite.

Charlie Betts, 13, from Corringham, was third in the kata, Thomas Tonnison, eight, from Canvey, came third in the kumite.

The youngest competitors were Alex Whitten and Fletcher Jerden, who were third - Alex in kata and Fletcher in kumite.