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ST HELENS judoka Bekky Livesey was knocked out in the opening round of her World Championship bout in Budapest on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old, who is representing Great Britain in the tournament along with her sister Amy, got off to a solid start against world ranked number 20 Severa Nishanbayera.

Livesey got a waza-ari on the board in the first minute of the -57kg bout.

But the Kazakh fighter hit back straight away and with her next attack threw Livesey for waza-ari and went straight for the hold down to win by ippon.

Meanwhile Amy has got her World Championship debut off to a good start.

After a cagey opening against Poland's Karolina Talach, great work on the ground saw her apply the strangle and force the tap to progress into round two.