Tamzin Bryant... remember the name. And remember where you first read about her too!

That’s because Tamzin is good at taekwondo, very good in fact because at the age of just 14 she is British champion in the girls’ red belt heavyweight category.

And if Tamzin and Andrew Tombling – her instructor at her taekwondo club in Cirencester – have their way she’ll be challenging for Olympic medals at either the Tokyo Games in 2020 or in Paris four years later – or maybe even both!

The Deer Park School pupil, who lives in Cirencester, knows she still has a long way to go to match the achievements of Great Britain’s double Olympic taekwondo gold medal winner Jade Jones, of course, but she is certainly determined to go as far as she can in the sport.

She is two belts away from getting a black belt and is progressing very nicely in a sport that she first took up almost 10 years ago.

“I started when I was five,” she said. “I’d go to Cotswold Leisure Centre and I went through the junior stage which is about seven belts, and then the senior stage two which is another eight belts.”

So how did she get into taekwondo?

“My dad had been doing it since 2000,” said Tamzin, “and he wants to get back into it again.”

Dad is James Bryant and he’s pretty good at it, too, because he’s a second dan.

“Yes, he’s good but he says I’m better than him,” laughed Tamzin, who has a healthy attitude towards the sport.

She won the British title in Birmingham at the end of last year, beating three people to clinch the gold medal.

“I just went along for the fun of it, I didn’t expect to come out with anything,” she said.

“I was chuffed to bits when I won. I’d won the Southern championship in September which meant I qualified for the national championships.

“I’d been southern champion before and I’d also won a bronze at the national championships before.”

Winning gold this time around is obviously a big step up and the world championships this summer, also in Birmingham, are very much on Tamzin’s radar.

So what makes her so good?

“I always try hard and never give up,” she said. “The training sessions are quite intense. You’ve got to know how and when to kick and you’ve got to think on your feet really quickly.”

Tamzin appears to be be someone who can think very clearly and she certainly has very clear aims.

“Taking part in the Olympics is something I’ve always wanted to do,” she said.

And you certainly wouldn’t bet against her achieving her goal.