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Monday, May 12, 2008
GOLD FOR AARON AND SILVER FOR BIANCA AT JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Aaron Cook (Scorpions) proved too strong for his peers in the Light Heavy weight category at the Junior World Championships this weekend. In his first fight of the day he beat his Afghanistan competitor 8-3 before going on to end his next two matches early in the fight using the 7 clear point rule, Chinese Taipe 8-1 and Greece 7-0. In the semi final Aaron had stiffer competition with the representative from China and at the end of the third round the match ended 4-2. Aaron won the gold in style beating Korea in the final 12-8. Aaron is the first British male to hold the title Junior World Champion and his performance puts him in a strong position to be chosen to represent Great Britain in the Olympics in Beijing this summer...........more detail |
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Monday, May 12, 2008
DAY 5 OF THE 7TH WTF WORLD JUNIOR TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Male Light Heavy Under 78KG
Gold Medal : Cook Aaron (Great Britain)
Silver Medal : Yeong Rae Shin (Korea)
Bronze Medals : Keles Celal (Turkey)
Xinwei Wang (China) ..........more detail |
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
DAY 4 RESULTS OF THE 7TH WORLD JUNIOR TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Male Light Middle Under 68KG
Gold Medal : Da Yeong Jeong (Korea)
Silver Medal : Dandiego Garay Alberto (Spain)
Bronze Medals : Bouchard Patrick (Canada)
Zhen Guan (China) ..........more detail |
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
DAY 3 RESULTS OF THE 7TH WORLD JUNIOR TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Male Light under 59KG
Gold Medal : Gyu Won Choi (Korea)
Silver Medal : Balazadehaboli Mahdi (Iran)
Bronze Medals : Yan Hui Shi (China)
Zhalgas Bekkassymov (Kazakhstan)
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Friday, May 09, 2008
DAY 2 RESULTS OF THE 7TH WORLD JUNIOR TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Male Fin under 45KG
Gold Medal : In Chang Jeong (Korea)
Silver Medal : Agapov Ruslan (Russia)
Bronze Medals : Burton Olie (USA)
Vasni G.Correa Samuel (Spain)..........more detail |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
DAY 1 RESULTS OF THE 7TH WORLD JUNIOR TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPS |
Female Bantam under 46KG
Gold Medal : Min Ji Kim (Korea)
Silver Medal : Sonkham Chanatip (Thailand)
Bronze Medals : Lizardo Jyra Marie (Philippine)
Pico Merissa (USA)..........more detail |
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
WTF GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN IZMIR |
At the General Assembly of WTF in İzmır some important and interesting ıssues came up the table. The following amendments of the WTF Rules have been accepted by the General Assembly:..........more detail |
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
GB TAEKWONDO LOOK FORWARD TO THE 7TH JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN TURKEY |
The Turkish city of Izmir will this week host a talented young British squad in the 7th Taekwondo Junior World Championships. The Great Britain team, including both Aaron Cook and Scott Atkinson, will continue their preparations in the run up to the event which takes place from the 6th-11th May. The competition is a showcase for the sports brightest young talents and the British team will start the event with two current Junior European Champions on the team (Cook and Atkinson) who are hoping to contribute to a successful team performance...........more detail |
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
THIRD TIME LUCKY FOR TAEKWONDO STAR SARAH? |
BEIJING gold medal prospect Sarah Stevenson competes in one of the Olympics' most violent sports but as Claire Hughes found, she is more afraid of failure than getting hurt...........more detail |
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
TAEKWONDO: MARTIN STAMPER SO PROUD OVER EUROPEAN SILVER |
LIVERPOOLS Martin Stamper has won a silver medal at the European Taekwondo Championship in Rome.
The 21-year-old finished runner-up in the under-62kg weight category after being beaten 4-0 in the final by Levent Tuncat from Germany...........more detail |
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NEW WTF DEMONSTRATION TEAM |
For the first time the World Taekwondo Federation will form a WTF Taekwondo Demonstration Team composed from Koreans and Non-Koreans. There have been various demoteams from Kukkiwon and other organizations but all of them have Korean members only. The new demonstration team shall encourage less developed taekwondo member national associations to actively promote taekwondo within their respective countries. The WTF Taekwondo Demonstration Team will also help to raise competent taekwondo athletes, coaches and regional taekwondo demonstration teams...........more detail |
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Monday, April 14, 2008
GB TAEKWONDO RETURNS FROM EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS WITH FOUR MEDAL HAUL |
Great Britain returned today from a successful European Taekwondo Championships in Rome where they won 2 silver and 2 bronze medals at the 4-day event, which took place at the Piazzale dello Sport in the Italian capital. Britain, who only took 8 athletes to the event due to the unsanctioned introduction of electronic point scoring equipment, have never before obtained 4 medals at the senior European Championships. This haul complements the excellent achievement of the junior team who were last year ranked second overall at the Junior European Championships. ..........more detail |
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Friday, April 11, 2008
MEDAL SUCCESS FOR BRITAIN ON OPENING DAY OF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ROME |
British taekwondo enjoyed a successful first day at the European Championships yesterday, which kicked-off in the Italian capital of Rome. Britain has taken an eight-strong squad to Rome with four athletes competing yesterday collecting one silver and two bronze medals...........more detail |
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Friday, April 11, 2008
MEDALS AT BELGIAN OPEN FOR BRITISH CLUB PLAYERS |
As well as the medals won by the British Team, five other Brits earned themselves a podium place. Sophie Threlfall took silver in the Senior Female Fin division as did Dominic Brookes in the Senior Male -54 division. Lottie Roberts, Stephanie Allen and Iqubal Bola all won bronze in their weight divisions.
Full Results can be seen in our Results section...........more detail |
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
MORE SUCCESS FOR BRITISH TAEKWONDO AT BELGIAN OPEN AS TEAM LOOKS |
British taekwondo enjoyed a successful weekend competing at the 29th Belgian Open Championships with a small team of six athletes winning two gold and two silver medals at the Bloso Sports Centre in Ghent. The Championships operated with the same scoring system to be used in Beijing this summer whilst this weekends European Championships in Rome will feature the controversial new electronic points scoring system which even the World Federation has not sanctioned...........more detail |
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
STEVENSON READY FOR OLYMPIC FIGHT |
In a cavernous converted warehouse shoe-horned away in a long forgotten corner of east Manchester, Sarah Stevenson feels safe from the hype which promises to mark her out as one of Great Britain's brightest gold medal chances for Beijing.more detail |
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Friday, March 28, 2008
British Taekwondo team play host to Nigeria as part of Beijing preparations |
The visiting Nigerian Taekwondo Federation and their elite team members were given a warm reception as they arrived in the UK, preparing to train with their British counterparts in the first leg of a 3 month training camp prior to Beijing. Britains guests arrived in Manchester at Sport Taekwondo UKs training academy last weekend and have spent the last 4 days sparring with Britains own summer hopefuls...........more detail |
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Two golds, one silver and a bronze for non GB Team members or German Open |
As well as three gold medals at the German Open for the British Team, there were also gold medals for Josh Webley (London Team) in the Junior Male -51 category and Muhammed Lutalo (St katherines TKD) in the Junior Male -78 category. Caroline Fisher (Scorpion Taekwondo) took silver in the Senior Female -51 division and Lottie Roberts (Wessex Taekwondo) took bronze in the Junior Female -44 weight division...........more detail |
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Britain heads to Rome with 3 more golds from German Open |
The Great Britain taekwondo team returns home today from the German Open in Hamburg after winning three more medals, which follows on from their successful eight medal haul at the Dutch Open just two weeks ago. ..........more detail |
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
British Taekwondo Team Heads to Hamburg for German Open |
Beijing hopeful Craig Brown (Fusion Taekwondo Club, London) will return from injury this weekend to compete at the German Open Taekwondo Championships in Hamburg in what is a crucial stage in his and the teams preparations for the European Championships in April. Brown, who won a gold medal at last years German Open, will be keen to get back to winning ways as soon as possible and make an impact starting in Germany this weekend...........more detail |
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