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Three Lucan siblings have just returned from the WAKO World Kickboxing Championships in Hungary.
They managed to get to three semi finals and two finals, culminating in one gold, one silver and three bronze medals – rightly making them the talk of the tournament.
To put it into perspective there were 77 Irish fighters in total for the Irish Squad in all divisions and weight classes, with 34 medals that the Irish Squad came home with, five of them from the Wade Trio alone.
Abbie the youngest of the siblings, became a World Champion.
They all trained very hard over the summer and sacrificed a lot to first of all make the Irish team and second to do so well. An extraordinary accomplishment from three siblings from the same World Championship which is a very rare achievement.
They receive no funding from the Irish Government unlike the other National teams they are up against and still managed to not only compete with the best in the World but also beat them.
