Hyundai Motor UK holds 2025 UK Skills Olympics
- Skills Olympics competition finds the best of the best
- Jamie Robinson of Endeavour Hyundai crowned 2025 champion
- Hyundai World Skills Olympics to be held in October
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Hyundai Motor UK recently held the 2025 running of the UK Skills Olympics to determine the “best of the best” from 943 technicians across its retailer network.
The UK Skills Olympics is open to all Hyundai Expert and Master level Technicians across the Hyundai Motor UK retailer network, with overall winner representing the UK at the World Skills Olympics finals held in Seoul in September.
Designed to find the UK’s best Hyundai technician, the 2025 UK Skills Olympics is also the culmination of more than two years of work from Hyundai Motor UK’s own in house Technical Training team at the Hyundai Academy. During that time, a purpose-built technical expert curriculum has been formed, focusing on the latest technology and diagnostic processes, to ensure Hyundai Motor UK’s technical training provision remains industry leading.
The UK Skills Olympics is a great opportunity to celebrate the technical excellence and product knowledge of our retailer technicians; bringing our elite technicians together to share best practise with a key focus on pro-active, remedial actions is extremely important as we strive to increase our overall customer experience. It’s become a key event in our training calendar, and I’m thrilled with the performance we’ve seen this year, my congratulations to Jamie on a great performance in a close competition.
The level of competition we’ve come to expect at the UK Skills Olympics is testament to the standard our Training Academy delivers, and that of our Technicians. Jamie’s stellar performance will see him go on to represent both Endeavour Hyundai and Hyundai Motor UK at the Global Skills Olympics in Seoul later this year, and I’m looking forward to seeing another strong showing from him then.
Hyundai Motor UK’s Training Academy has been in operation since 2010 and works with UK, European and Global operations to deliver the very latest in bespoke technical training information and wider product knowledge. Last year, the Academy delivered 3400 face-to-face and 521 digital training days for technicians across the retailer network.
At a national level, the Hyundai Skills Olympics takes place annually, selecting finalists to compete biannually at the European Skills Olympics in Germany, or the Global Skills Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Hyundai Motor UK frequently demonstrates a high level of performance at the final events; most recently, during the 2024 European Skills Olympics, Liam Hendry secured 4th place, whilst in the global competition, in recent years the UK has seen Tim Cartwright take 3rd in 2023, and Dean Hodge seal the top spot in 2019.
This year’s UK Skills Olympics finalists were:
1st Place: Jamie Robinson (Endeavour Hyundai, Ipswich)
2nd Place: James Parker (Richmond Hyundai, Southampton)
3rd Place: Jacob Godfrey (Brooklyn Hyundai)
Highly Commended:
- Carl Croome (Vertu Hyundai, Dunfermline)
- David Shaw (Drive Hyundai, Scarborough)
- David Thomas (Wessex Garages, Cardiff)
- Jacob Godfrey (Brooklyn Hyundai)
- Jake Taylor (Vertu Hyundai, Mansfield)
- Martin Mulvenna (Daly’s Garage)
- Nathan Etheridge-Harding (Marshall Hyundai, Hereford)
- Robert Kingdon (Vertu Hyundai, Exeter)
- Tim Cartwright (Stoneacre Hyundai)
- Wayne Newton (S G Petch, Darlington)
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Natasha Waddington
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natasha.waddington@hyundai.co.ukRobin Hayles
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