Tonbridge’s Jemima Yeats-Brown won her second Commonwealth Games bronze on Tuesday. Yeats-Brown, 27, defeated Shanice Takayawa in the quarter-final and progressed to face Australian Aoife Coughlan in the -70kg semi-final.
It was a close contest but three shidos for Yeats-Brown ended her gold-medal hopes - but a bronze medal was still in sight. Yeats-Brown was up against Northern Ireland’s Rachael Hawkes for bronze.
Pembury-born Yeats-Brown controlled the fight and finished it with sangaku for ippon. Speaking before the Games, Yeats-Brown said her sister’s battle with cancer was the fight fuelling her quest for a second Commonwealth Games medal.
Yeats-Brown and her family got the devastating news in October elder sister Jenny, 28, had been diagnosed with a brain tumour for which she started chemotherapy and radiotherapy that month.