Camberley Judo Club Coaches
Luke Preston-3rd Dan
Senior Coach
Luke started Judo when he was six years old. Since then he has represented both Wales and Great Britain on numerous occasions.
Luke began full time training at Camberley Judo Club in 1997 after successfully completing his degree course in social psychology.
He has an impressive competition record winning the senior British Championships at under 81kg three times. Amongst his eleven senior B Tournament results he won the Canadian Open twice and won silver in the British Open. Luke also took medals in A tournaments, won Commonwealth Games bronze, won silver in the European Team Championships and placed 7th in the Senior European Championships in 2001. He was the Olympic reserve at 81kgs for the Sydney Games 2000.
Luke retired from international competition in 2005 and became a qualified coach so that he could work as an elite coach for Camberley Judo Club. He is a qualified BJA club coach and also obtained the EJU level 4 coaching award. Luke posseses a foundation degree in sport performance and runs the day to day training programmes for the elite group.
He also works as a support Coach for the Great Britain Development Squad in the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games. This has involved coaching at the Junior World Championships 2006, 2008 and Junior/Under 23 European Championships 2006, 2007 , 2008 and 2009.
