national championship claims 

The claims of winning a national title and finishing second need independent and reliable sources. Judoinside.com is not enough.  For example, it lists two national championships for 1977 one month apart and that's clearly bogus.  

How is it bogus? Remember in Judo you can win for your weight division as well as a the open weight division.    

I now placed the gold medal https://books.google.com/books?id=MtQDAAAAMBAJ&pg;=PA16&lpg;=PA16&dq;=pamela+adams++national+champion&source;=bl&ots;=eqaYsJt_Ej&sig;=3wEejMnbByqpdYgASWCw-BUN2dc&hl;=en&sa;=X&ei;=ilAkVfeyBKqxsATS4oDoDQ&ved;=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q;=pamela%20adams%20%20national%20champion&f;=false and the silver medal in the article.  I am not putting in bogus sources.