Author: Sampo Pajulampi

Mahama Cho, a heavyweight competitor of the English national team, trained in our gym the week before Christmas and helped Teemu prepare for the Olympic qualifiers. In the week before the camp, at the tournament in Paris, Cho took a clear victory over the reigning Olympic champion and has success from other tournaments as well.

At just 22, Cho is one of the most promising heavyweights in the world. He welcomed the opportunity to train with an experienced top. ”After these training experiences, Teemu is one of my favourites for the European qualification tournament. He definitely has a good chance to qualify for the Olympics” said Cho.

http://www.taekwondodata.com/mahama-cho.afek.html#top

The league finals in Turku at the weekend brought two awards to TU11's athletes.

Juho Ranta won the over 80 kg category and at the same time secured the first place in the entire match league.

Sophia Vassilaki won the D-girls under 150 cm category.

More information and all results: http://www.budokwai.fi/taekwondo/content/liigafinaali_default.php

 

League results on the association's website: http://www.suomentaekwondoliitto.fi/?x103997=415924

 

Videos on Youtube:

Petteri vs. Timo Räkköläinen (HIPKO), short

Petteri vs. Timo Räkköläinen (HIPKO), second round

Here are pictures and videos from the WC. We will add these to this page when we receive them from the photographers. If you have pictures that you would like us to publish, send us a mail at info (a) taekwondourheilijat.fi

TU11 would like to thank all the organizers, participants and spectators of the WC. We especially want to cheer on Timo Räkköläi, who injured his leg in the match against Petter.

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TU11's competitors had great success in the taekwondo championships. Teemu Heino (M +87), Petteri Kauppinen (-80 kg) and Juho Kostianen (-74 kg) took gold in their respective categories. Juho Ranta (M +87) took silver, losing the final to Teemu. Juho and Petteri won their final before full time thanks to the point difference.
The matches between Teemu and Juho and the other Juho were also seen on television.
Sofia Vassilaki took silver in her own series in the children's Noin 7 Veljestä cup, which was also held in connection with the SC Games.

 Championship results >>

YLE's broadcast of the Olympic wrestling event, Teemu and Juhoje's matches >>

TV2 Sun 06.11.2011 at: 16.50 ….. Olympic wrestling
Finnish Taekwondo Championship Final Matches broadcast
The finals will show at least M +87 kg (Teemu Heino and Juho Ranta) and M -74 kg (Juho Kostiainen). The final contestants will be eliminated on Saturday in the preliminaries of the Championship in Nurmijärvi.
Commentator is the near-legendary Kim Sinisalo.

More info here>>

This year, the SC competitions will be held over two days, with the preliminaries and semi-finals taking place at Nurmijärvi and the finals at the Olympic Wrestling event.

TU11's team:
Juho Kostiainen -74 kg
Petteri Kauppinen -80 kg
Juho Ranta -87 & +87 kg
Teemu Heino +87 kg

In addition, Sofia Vassilaki in the series D1T, 145 cm, will participate in the Noin Seitsemän Veljestä Cup held in Nurmijärvi in connection with the preliminaries.

The finals will be televised, but hopefully as many people as possible will come to cheer on our teammates for the championships. You can buy tickets from the link below.

SM 2011 page: http://www.hwarangry.com/?x103997=127452

Finals in the Olympic wrestling event: http://www.olympiakamppailu.fi/uutiskone/?page_id=13

Tickets for the finals from the ticket office: http://www.lippu.fi/olympiakamppailutapahtuma-Lippuja.html?affiliate=ADV&doc=artistPages%2Ftickets&fun=artist&action=tickets&erid=611352

 

 

 

Download the poster here to print.

 

Teemu talks about it in Helsinki news.