Sam Ingram wins Bronze in Beijing
Sam Ingram, one of the Edinburgh Club's full time athletes, has won a bronze medal in the -90kg category.
Sam's Paralympic bronze on his Games debut follows his 2007 World Silver Medal.
The 23 year old performed strongly throughout the afternoon's matches despite a rocky start to the day.
In a controversial opening match Sam had an ippon overturned. with just 28 seconds of his first match to go, he appeared to throw his French opponent cleanly for an expected ippon.
However, after the Ippon was awarded the technical official intervened and Sam's points were removed! The eventual score finished with Sam losing by a Yuko to the Frenchman.
Luckily Sam qualified for the repecharge where he dispatched Japan's Yusuke Hatsuse with a win by ippon. He went on to beat German judoka Sebastian Junk in the repecharge final to qualify for the bronze medal match.
Sam took the bronze medal after the Algerian player withdrew from the competition.