TITLE SUCCESS: British champion kickboxer Kennedy Freeman, 15, pictured at the gym in Burnopfield where she trains, below, with coach Wesley Fagan
A TEENAGE girl from the North-East has won a national kickboxing title.
Kennedy Freeman, 15, from Tanfield, near Stanley, in County Durham, now holds the British Freestyle Kickboxing and Karate Organisation British Full Contact Cadet title.
She also won the cup for Fight of the Night at a tournament in Lincoln two weeks ago.
The Tanfield School pupil trains at the North-East Kickboxing Academy, in Burnopfield, three to four times a week.
Her coach, Wesley Fagan, said: “I am over the moon with how she has done.”
In August, Kennedy won a gold medal at the World Organisation of Martial Arts AthletesWorld Games, in Telford, Shropshire, which is the sport’s equivalent of the Olympics.
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