London 2012 Olympics: Team GB judo squad named Meanwhile Gemma Howell is in particularly fearsome form in the women's -63kg and has won her last four tournaments, including two European Cup and two World Cup events. After taking a lengthy sabbatical from the sport in Thailand, 30-year-old Sophie Cox also returns to Team GB. She represented Britain at the 2004 Athens Games in the -57kg category but will compete in the -52kg category in London. British Judo performance director Daniel Lascau said: "We will have 14 athletes - they will represent their clubs, country, British Judo and our membership. We start on July 28 and will approach it as our job making sure we've done everything possible to perform to our best and then respect the other sports as part of the fantastic Team GB. The crowd will be behind us, every time a GB judoka steps onto the mat you will hear it, every judoka will have an amazing experience, we must be proud of them and give them all the support we can. Team GB chef de mission Andy Hunt added: "This is the first time we've been able to select an athlete in every weight category so it's a great opportunity for British judokas to show that they are capable of, in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, on the greatest sporting stage. Great Britain has a proud tradition in the sport of judo, having claimed a fantastic tally of 16 Olympic medals since the sport's introduction at the 1964 Games. A number of the talented athletes selected today have produced some outstanding medal winning performances in international competition since the last Olympic Games, and this should fill them with confidence that they can seize this once in a lifetime opportunity with both hands and challenge for the Olympic podium in London. The judo contest takes a knock-out format. The two winning semi-finalists contest the gold-medal bout, but the four judokas which lose in the quarter-finals drop in to the repechage bracket. The two winners in the repechage will compete against the two defeated semi-finalists to decide the winners of the two bronze medals. Each weight category will contest all of their bouts over the course of a single day, meaning that one men's and one women's category will be concluded daily between July 28 and Aug 3 at the ExCel Centre in Docklands. Team GB judo squad: Kelly Edwards Sophie Cox Sarah Clark Gemma Howell Sally Conway Gemma Gibbons Karina Bryant Ashley McKenzie Colin Oates Daniel Williams Euan Burton Winston Gordon James Austin Christopher Sherrington