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2007 U.S. Open Results

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Canadian athletes headed south this week to make their mark at one of the world’s largest Taekwondo tournaments, the U.S. Open. The outstanding results (which include 12 gold medals) speak for themselves.

Some of the week’s top accomplishments include:

Jeffrey Pollock: forms Silver, sparring Gold

Allan Cunningham: double Silver (forms/sparring)

Courtney Condie: Senior Silver, Junior Bronze (sparring)

Eric Phamhung: double Bronze (Senior/Junior sparring)

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – poomsae (forms)

11-13 years – Female

1^st Dan Light	Amy McNally (ON)	Bronze
2^nd Dan Heavy	Deborah Doyle (NL)	Gold

11-13 years – Male

2^nd Dan Light	Chayce Krause (AB)	Silver

33-40 years – Male

5^th Dan Heavy	Jeffrey Pollock (NB)	Silver

41-50 years – Male

3^rd Dan Heavy	Allan Cunningham (ON)	Silver

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – Junior (11-13) kyorugi (sparring)

Female Results
Fly	Sydney Oshaughnessy (ON)	Bronze
Light	Deborah Doyle (NL)	Silver

Male Results
Bantam	Vincent Foster (QC)	Bronze
Light	Shashank Bhat (ON)	Gold

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – Junior (14-17) kyorugi (sparring)

Female Results
Fly	Holly Patterson (QC)	Bronze
Bantam	Rita Barakat (QC)	Gold
Bantam	Elizabeth Belleau (QC)	Silver
Feather	Christine Trieu (ON)	Gold
Feather	Lea-Marie Dumont (QC)	Bronze
Welter	Chelsea Pellegrino (QC)	Bronze
Middle	Rachel Cunningham (ON)	Bronze
Light Heavy	Courtney Condie (ON)	Silver
Light Heavy	Nathalie Iliesco (QC)	Bronze

Male Results
Fin	Lawrence Phamhung (ON)	Gold
Welter	Reggie Ralph (QC)	Silver
Welter	Eric Phamhung (ON)	Bronze
Light Middle	Jordan Earl (ON)	Bronze
Light Heavy	Anthony Barrow (ON)	Silver

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – 33-40 kyorugi (sparring)

Male Results
Welter	Jeffrey Pollock (NB)	Gold

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – 41-50 kyorugi (sparring)

Male Results
Bantam	Allan Cunningham (ON)	Silver

» USA Taekwondo

» U.S. Open Junior Photos

» Day 3 Sparring Results (PDF)
» Day 4 Sparring Results (PDF)
» Day 3 Forms Results (PDF)
» Day 4 Forms Results (PDF)

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Canadian Invasion: Canada Takes U.S. Open!

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The 16^th U.S. Open Taekwondo Championship is in full swing down in Orlando, Florida. This enormous four-day event is the battleground for nearly 1,100 competitors from 59 countries. Although Canada does not designate an official team, many of our top competitors flock south anyway — both for the experience and for the chance to earn points in the Canadian ranking system.

By the end of the senior (18-32 years) matches Canada had captured five gold medals in sparring, just ahead of Germany (four), and the U.S. and Netherlands with two each. Impressive results also came from our fine poomsae (forms) competitors.

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – poomsae (forms)

1^st Dan Fin	Jonathan Bourdages (QC)	Bronze
1^st Dan Light	Darin Wigley (NB)	Silver
2^nd Dan Fin	Anthony Mohabir (ON)	Gold
2^nd Dan Fin	Kevin Meija (AB)	Bronze
3^rd Dan Fin	Joseph Lau (ON)	Silver
3^rd Dan light	Shane Murphy (NB)	Silver

Results – 16^th U.S. Open (WTF Taekwondo)

Canadian Team – Senior (17-32) kyorugi (sparring)

Female Results
Fin	Shannon Condie (ON)	Bronze
Fly	Annie-Pier Turcotte (QC)	Gold
Bantam	Jessica Johnson (AB)	Bronze
Light	Karine Sergerie (QC)	Gold
Light	Sarah Cunningham (ON)	Bronze
Welter	Courtney Condie (ON)	Bronze
Middle	Dasha Peregoudova (ON)	Gold
Heavy	Marcela Szczotka (AB)	Bronze

Male Results
Fly	Eric Phamhung (ON)	Bronze
Light	Christopher Iliesco (QC)	Silver
Welter	Sébastien Michaud (QC)	Gold
Middle	Radomir Samardzic (ON)	Gold
Middle	Erich Kuehnle (ON)	Bronze
Heavy	Eric Ahn (ON)	Silver

» USA Taekwondo

» U.S. Open Senior Photos

» Day 1 Sparring Results (PDF)
» Day 2 Sparring Results (PDF)
» Day 1 Forms Results (PDF)
» Day 2 Forms Results (PDF)

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Exercising to a Martial Arts Degree

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Master Woodhouse with Taekwondo students at Xiamen University

My dreams of being a Martial Artist in the Art of Taekwondo began 21 years ago in London, Ontario, Canada – a dream which ultimately led to being a competitor, and now a First Class National Referee, an Associate Instructor at Tri Star Taekwondo WTF (with Master Sai Visouvath, who’ve I’ve known since day one) and finally onto representing Canada internationally in various capacities including being appointed by WTF Canada as Head of Team position.

I was recently accepted by Hui Ya Chen (a very friendly competitor who I met at the 2005 Universiade in Turkey) as an honorary guest instructor at his Xiamen University Taekwondo Academy in Fujian, China. It was an honour and pleasure to present a different perspective to the students during a week of training involving all aspects of Taekwondo.

A beginner class at the Xiamen University Taekwondo Academy

I was even more pleased to hear after my return that nine of his ten black belt competitors had qualified in their respective divisions, and will compete in the upcoming Chinese National Championship in early 2007 . It was a real honour to meet such wonderful Taekwondo practitioners, and a trip which I certainly hope to repeat some day.

Master Woodhouse with Green Belt competitor Amy Wei during the colour belt sparring class

Respectfully, Master Scott Woodhouse

Associate Instructor, Tri Star Taekwondo WTF

Associate Instructor, University of Western Ontario Taekwondo club WTF

London/Exeter Ontario , Canada

www.tristartkd.com

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