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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008 REPORT, RESULTS AND PHOTOS. |
The Southern Taekwondo Championships were hosted by Dorset Taekwondo Association on 31st May 1st June 2008 in Bournemouth.
The Saturday consisted of 115 Poomse competitors ranging from 8th Kup to 6th Dan. There were some excellent performances including gold medals going to some BTCB National Team Competitors. One of the many highlights was a gold medal in the Dan Grade +42 category going to Master Yousuf Dildar. The 1st Place team trophy for Poomse went to Premier Ki...........more detail |
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Friday, May 23, 2008
SARAH AND AARON BOUND FOR BEIJING |
Doncaster taekwondo stars Sarah Stevenson and Aaron Cook will represent Great Britain at the Beijing Olympic Games this summer.
Stevenson, 25, of Doncaster All Stars, will be looking to land a medal in her third Olympics as the most experienced member of the three-man squad announced by the British Olympic Association this week...........more detail |
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
TAEKWONDO: MARTIN STAMPER SUFFERS OLYMPIC HEARTACHE |
Martin Stampers hopes of representing Great Britain at the Olympics have been dashed.
The 22-year-old taekwondo specialist, who trains at the Elite Club in Liverpool, has discovered his weight category is not one of those picked for Beijing...........more detail |
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
BOA ANNOUNCES TAEKWONDO MEMBERS OF TEAM GB FOR BEIJING 2008 |
The British Olympic Association (BOA) today selected taekwondo members of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
The athletes are:..........more detail |
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Friday, May 16, 2008
BTCB DAN GRADING RESULTS AND PHOTOS POSTED |
Well done to everyone attending the 81st BTCB Dan grading at the end of last month. The standard was good and the past rate was the best seen for quite a while.
Results from the grading can be found in our Taekwondo Results Section.
Photos are also available to view and purchase through the FIMP Media web site. ..........more detail |
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
CALLING ALL INSTRUCTORS JOIN THE MCDONALDS KUNG FU PANDA PROMOTION |
This summer McDonalds will be promoting the Kung Fu Panda movie. With each happy meal they will be giving away a free martial arts lesson.
Most clubs offer a free lesson to introduce new students to Taekwondo. If you register each of your venues using the link below and offer a free session, your venues will be registered on the database used for the promotion...........more detail |
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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
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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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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