Taekwondo athletes 2011 | Taekwondo | Helsinki | Espoo | VantaaTogether with Ollis Siltanen and Frans Salme, Christian Kamphuis took the World Championship team bronze in Beach Pooms. In Rhodes, the European Championships will continue, where the World Championship medal gave a flying start.
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The sixth Sports People's Radio in history once again comments on public opinions related to sports. Studio guests for the live broadcast are Jenna Partanen, who is aiming for Tokyo in taekwondo, and Antti Ruuskanen, the Olympic silver medalist in javelin.
The Sofia Open G1 tournament took place on March 4-5. in Sofia, Bulgaria. Our club was represented by Tuikku Holopainen, Eddie Quinones, Sara Quinones and Aino Kortelainen.
Tuikku and Eddie applied for competition screens for the cadet European and World Championships. Unfortunately, both missed the goal. Tuikku's opening opponent came from Israel and Tuikku took a clear victory with his precise style. Instead, the Greek in the second round was too hard. The match stretched all the way to the golden point of the overtime, where a small mistake cost a medal and a place in the competition.
Eddie faced a Greek who would have been easy to beat with a basic performance. However, Eddie's work was a bit sloppy in these races and several small mistakes cost him the victory.
Sara only had a final in the children's series. The Cypriot was a clear opponent in the match, and Sara won in quite a superior style.
There were no opponents in Aino's own series, but as a lively girl, Aino competed in a higher weight category. In the semi-final, the representative of Greece was much weaker, while Aino took an overwhelming victory. In the final, there was another Greek who was really tall and strong. Aino couldn't find a way to knock down a hard-kicking opponent and thus brought home a nice silver medal.
The race arrangements work surprisingly well. However, the new judging line was still variable and it caused a lot of headaches for the competitors, from whose point of view the warnings were quite unpredictable in places.
Next, Eddie heads to the Dutch Open next weekend and the rest of the team to Belgium a week later.
Eddie Quinones took silver from the German Open. Driton Kurtelian from Switzerland fell in the semifinals. In the final, the Bulgarian opponent was stronger 9-17.
Tuikku played against Greece's Effrosyni Kaltsi 1-2. The match was scoreless and one unclear hold warning turned the match for the Greek.
Together with Olli Siltanen and Frans Salme, Christian Kamphuis took gold from the ranking games in Paris in the series group U-30. Christian and Essi's season opening in the individual series was good, but not quite enough for the final rounds.
The race gave a good impression of the starting season, as there were more than 500 participants.
Eddie Quinones took gold in the cadet boys' and Sara's girls' age group in the Spanish club championships.
Eddie and Sara represented Madrid HanKuk International School. Thanks to Suvi Mikkonen and Jesus Ramal for the opportunity to participate in the top international competition.
Taekwondo athletes do not rest during the school children's autumn vacation. The exercises are organized as usual. Enthusiasts do not need to report separately if they do not participate in the exercises. Happy vacation!
The Ambassador's Cup will take place on November 12, 2016 in Vantaa. It is the biggest tournament of the fall and our club also participates with a big team. If you don't fight yourself, come cheer or help with team maintenance, warm-ups, etc...
The competitions have series for both beginners and advanced players. There is a suitable series for all age groups.
If you want to join, send an email to the address info@tu11.fi or ask the instructors about it.
Jenna Partanen and Eddie Quinones were responsible for TU11's medals at the G1 tournament held in Riga on October 8 and 9. In addition, Sara took bronze in the children's tournament organized in connection with the competition.
Jenna competed on Saturday and initially faced the Russian Nadezha Glyshko. The match went under Jenna's control and ended 7-4. Next in the round, the familiar Polish Ulfig Jagoda met. With the new match concept, the result of an even match was 7-1 for the Pole, but Jenna was able to do the right things nicely. When the system can be run in completely, the Pole is also in trouble.
Eddie Quinones competed in the cadet boys' -61 kg category. He had a straight final that might not have been Eddie's best but was enough for a 3-2 win. The medal cabinet is handsome, because within a year Eddie has won 2 G1 races and was once silver.
Luca, Sara, Severi, Teemu and Tuikku missed the first round this time.
Essi Labart and Christian Kamphuis represented Finland at the business series World Championships in Peru in the country's capital, Lima, from September 29 to October 2, 2016.
Essi competed in the individual series on Saturday. For the first time, all over 18-year-old individual series were contested with a single elimination system (cup scheme). An opponent is drawn for the contestants and the better of the two advances to the next round. In the first round, the representative of Croatia faced each other. Essi performed at his own top level against Croatia. Croatia fell behind and Essi advanced to the quarterfinals. The next opponent was the experienced Gabriella Coffa from Holland. Good performances were not enough to drop the Dutchman, so Essi's final ranking was: 9th-16th.
Essi and Christian competed in the under-30 doubles category. Despite their solid performances, the pair unfortunately missed the semi-final spot. The doubles series was conducted using the cut-off method, which means that based on the points from the first qualifying round, half of the competing teams make it to the semi-finals, and correspondingly, the eight best of the semi-finals advance to the finals. Also in the final, the scores of all competitors are compared to each other, and the winner is decided based on the scores.
In addition to the pairs series, Christian also competed in the individual freestyle. The series took place on Sunday. The number of freestyle competitors has grown tremendously, and this time there were 23 competitors in the over 18-year-old men's individual series. Christian's warm-up went well, but unfortunately on the competition stage, the lactic acids got the better of him and Christian had to drop kicks from acrobatic movements, which resulted in a considerable penalty for points. The eight-person final place that took place in the evening remained a dream this time.
The level of the competition was tough, although the Finns took an amazing two bronzes, from the women's +30 group series and the women's -40 series.
