![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/ni-junior-kickboxers-bring-home-gold-medals-for-lurgan-club/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/130785700_kb2.jpg&description=Image caption, Each contestant Fight Club NI took to the world championships fought their way to a gold medal Five junior kickboxing students from a small club in Lurgan, County Armagh, have shown they can punch above their weight by winning 11 gold medals at the world kickboxing championships. Fight Club NI finished tenth in the competition against 150 countries. Nine-year-old Steven Gill won six gold medals, placing him third on the leader board of more than 1,500 fighters, including adults. Junior squad coach Gary Nelson said the result was "astounding". "It's an unbelievable result," he said. "I'm so proud of the young fighters, it's such an achievement for them." Image caption, Students train in an old mill in Lurgan One of the smallest clubs in attendance at the World Kickboxing Organisation (WKO) open championship in Barnsley last weekend, each contestant Fight Club NI brought to the competition fought their way to gold. The students train three times a week at a small gym in an old mill, tucked behind a row of shops in Lurgan town centre. It may be an unassuming building, but it has a long track record of training young champions in the 20 years since it opened. Image caption, Steven Gill won six gold medals at the tournamnet Steven Gill, who returned home from the championship with six gold medals, has been practicing at the club for four years, nearly half his life. He said commitment is the key to success in the ring. "You have to train really hard - pretty much every day" he told BBC News NI. "It's very hard but it is fun, so it's easy to keep at it - but then the more you keep at it the harder the fights get." Media caption, NI Kickboxing: Meet the martial arts stars of the future Ten-year-old Scott Watson has been kickboxing for nearly as long as he has been walking - from the age of three - and has the air of a professional fighter. Already a world champion kickboxer, he has won the Northern Ireland championship four times and brought home two gold me){kind=link}
Five junior kickboxing students from a small club in Lurgan, County Armagh, have shown they can punch above their weight by winning 11 gold medals at the world kickboxing championships.
Fight Club NI finished tenth in the competition against 150 countries.
Nine-year-old Steven Gill won six gold medals, placing him third on the leader board of more than 1,500 fighters, including adults.
Junior squad coach Gary Nelson said the result was “astounding”.
“It’s an unbelievable result,” he said.