15 year old Eva Ball from Coventry. Early in July, having only been training her memory for a few weeks, she came top in her school competition and then went on to win the UK Schools Memory Championships. In her first World Ranked Memory Championship – the UK Open, Eva achieved a staggering two silver medals and a Gold. The Gold Medal was in the five minute Names and Faces Discipline where she correctly recalled 39, beating the reigning World Memory Champion and world ranked number one Ben Pridmore into 4th place. This, in the very first time she has competed in this discipline!

World Champion and World Ranked number one Ben Pridmore comfortably won the competition with a score of 6447 Championships points. However, he didn’t have everything his own way.Ameel Hoque from the UK and World Ranked number 44, was originally introduced to memory by a chance visit to his school some years ago by Dominic O’Brien, this year achieved the Silver Medal position with 4093 Championships points in just his third competition – his best score to date. Florian Dellé from Germany, who has been competing since 2003 also achieve a personal best with a score of 3035 in Bronze Medal Position. He was also to the top ranked Overseas Competitor in the competition.  See all the results here