IN the latest edition of our look back through the archives, here are five sports pictures from the past.

Do you recognise yourself or anyone you know in any of these great pictures?

November 1984, more than 250 girls had been put through a rigorous self-defence routine during a martial arts weekend at the Queen Margaret’s School, Escrick. After one-and-a-half hours of tuition in the school’s gym, they then watched a demonstration by a team of experts from Sheffield.

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EBOR KARATE CLUB 1984

EBOR KARATE CLUB 1984

EBOR KARATE CLUB 1984: Pictured, after a superb performance in the Tyneside Open karate championship, Mike Douglas, Mike Sawyer, Paul Mendham and Rob Loft.

MALTON KARATE CLUB 1969

MALTON KARATE CLUB 1969

MALTON KARATE CLUB 1969: Members of the newly formed Malton Karate Club spent a gruelling weekend in training, under the direction of one of the top Japanese instructors in the country, Mr Katutaro Jakahashi.

NATIONAL TRIALS 1978

NATIONAL TRIALS 1978

NATIONAL TRIALS 1978: Mr Walter Seaton, chief instructor to England’s karate-do Wado-Kai squad is pictured here at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. Among those trying for the national honour was Pilot Officer Ken Robson.

SELBY KARATE CLUB 1983

SELBY KARATE CLUB 1983

SELBY KARATE CLUB 1983: Pictured, from the left: Mick Pearce, Colin Lincoln, Tony Howley, Graham Haywood.

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