Navy U23s Win 2019 Inter Services Rugby Union Championships
They beat the Royal Air Force in the deciding match at RAF Halton.
Jon Knighton joined BFBS as a broadcast trainee in March 1986. He worked in Gibraltar, Cyprus, The Falklands, London and Germany with BFBS Radio before joining BFBS TV as a news producer and editor in 1994. He set up the Sports team in 2002, which has now grown to six team members, reflecting the importance of Forces sport. Jon studied History at university and obtained a postgraduate diploma in Journalism at Falmouth, before going on to work as a sports reporter for BBC York, Leeds, and Humberside.
They beat the Royal Air Force in the deciding match at RAF Halton.
They faced off against opposition from the Bristol Sporting Club.
It is the 68th year that the Birkett race has taken place.
A team of 65 wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans has been selected.
They went down 31-17 in the final.
Tempers flared as UKAF started their first competitive International Defence Rugby Competition match at Japan's Camp Narashino.
A win against the Navy in the opening game means the Army could be crowned champions on Friday.
A stunning 60-0 win took the ladies in red one step closer to retaining their title.
A last-gasp header secured the win over the Parachute Regiment.
The Army women thrashed Super League side York City Knights to win the Challenge Shield Final.
Both the men and the women's titles will stay with the Army after the event in Nuneaton.
The England Head Coach sat down with Jon Knighton in Manchester.
The former soldier lost both his legs in Afghanistan in 2007 and went on to finish fifth in the London 2012 Paralympics discus event.
Air Commodore Chris Jones was speaking at the Inter Services Championship where the RAF won both the women’s and men’s titles.
Both the men's and women's Inter Services titles were won by the Royal Air Force.
A win in the final game ended the Army's six-year spell of dominance.