Everyone knows this has been a very hot year for Taekwondo in Canada. But can we keep momentum and bring home a win at the Pan Am Games next week?

The Games are held every four years and are similar to the Olympics in many ways. The Canadian Team has been training in Toronto the past few days, and took off for Rio de Janeiro yesterday where they will resume training.

Female Pan Am Games Team
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Ivett Gonda (BC) Fin	Shannon Condie (ON) Bantam
Karine Sergerie (QC) Light	Dasha Peregoudova (ON) Heavy

Male Pan Am Games Team
Jocelyn Addison (QC) Fin	Ali Ghafour (ON) Bantam
Sebastien Michaud (QC) Light	Eric Ahn (ON) Heavy

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Saint John New Brunswick was rocked by three solid days of Taekwondo competition this Canada day Weekend. Things kicked off with the "Colour Belt International" tournament on Friday, where the sparring-only format was very successful. (The event was hosted by JVK Taekwondo and assisted by JD TKD , Quispamsis TKD and T.G. Roy's TKD)

The Junior WTF Canadian Championship has three divisions: Poom C (under 10 years old), Poom B (11-13), and Poom A (14-17). The tournament is only for black belts, and rules are modified to make competition safe for young players.

Saturday was dedicated to Poom B and C competition and witnessed hundreds of young athletes show determination and sportsmanship beyond their age. While they may be tomorrow's champions, at this stage they are still learning the basics of high-level competition.

Poom A Division on Sunday was enormous: 267 competitors from across Canada made it the largest turnout in Junior Championship history! These players show some serious fighting spirit as they hone their skills for eventually fighting at the Senior Championship (17+ years).

Poom A Highlights

In Women's Featherweight, Yvette Yong (BC) vs. Lea-marie Dumont (QC) had the crowed on their feet when Dumont took and held and early lead in the final. When the judges awarded Yong a controversial point the Quebec fans exploded in the stands, causing Yong to go crazy berserk for the last round, bridging the gap and convincing spectators she deserved the final 10-7 win for gold.

Meanwhile Kevin Meija (AB) was defending his title (2006 Flyweight Champion) against the up-and-coming Lawrence Phamhung (ON). They battled point for point to a sudden death final round, won by Lawrence for the gold medal. In the very next match his brother Eric Phamhung completed his domination of Welterweight by point-gapping Emile Laberge (QC) 10-3, his fourth point-gap win in as many fights.

The new Junior A Team (gold medalists) will represent Canada at the Junior Pan Am Championships this October in Daytona, Florida.

Poomsae (patterns) competition is also an event at the Junior Championships, and for the first time electronic scoring was used in a way similar as with sparring: judges use a hand controller to score the competitor, and the score is shown on a display immediately after the performance. This system is not only faster, but also provides scoring transparency and instant feedback to competitors and spectators. Canadians will be glad to experience this system because it is used in international poomsae competition. Starting this year, the Senior Poomsae Championships will happen at the Canadian Hanmadang, separate from sparring.

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After finishing out of the medals at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Canada's Taekwondo athletes will be looking to get back on the podium in Rio de Janeiro. Heading into the Games, the WTF Taekwondo Association of Canada has set a target of winning more gold medals and more total medals than any other nation competing in Brazil.

Despite a talented roster, achieving success at the Pan American Games is not guaranteed for Canada as all the Taekwondo events feature a random draw with a single elimination format - meaning anything can happen. Nevertheless, Canada's eight Taekwondo athletes are all expected to contend for medals in Brazil.

In 2006, Canada's Taekwondo team enjoyed a highly successful international campaign highlighted by the team capturing the overall title at the Senior Pan American Championship for the first time in the event's history.

On the men's side, Canada will be led by two of its top senior athletes, Jocelyn Addison (58 kg) and Sebastien Michaud (80 kg). Michaud is currently Canada's top ranked Taekwondo athlete and recently won a gold medal at the 2007 U.S. Open [not to mention bronze at World Championships]. Ranked as the number two male athlete in Canada, Addison captured gold in his respective weight class at the 2006 Senior Pan American Championship.

The top international challengers in the men's division are expected to include Mexico's Oscar Salazar Blanca (58 kg) along with Santos Leonardo (80 kg plus) and Wenceslau Marcio (58 kg) of Brazil.

Blanca is the defending Olympic and Pan American Games silver medallist in the flyweight division while Brazil's Leonardo and Marcio should also figure prominently in the men's competition as each is coming off a gold medal performance at the 2006 Senior Pan American Championship in Argentina.

In the women's event, Canada's team will be led by Ivett Gonda (49 kg) and Karine Sergerie (67 kg). Both Gonda and Sergerie are veterans of the Canadian Taekwondo team and both medaled in the 2006 Senior Pan American Championship, Karine with gold and Ivett with bronze.

An Olympian in 2004, Gonda is expected to make her second consecutive appearance at the Pan American Games and will be looking to build on her top-16 finish from four years ago in Santo-Domingo.

Over the last four years, her team-mate Sergerie has arguably been the most successful Canadian Taekwondo athlete competing for Canada on the international stage after recording podium performances at the last two World Championship events [and Gold in 2007].

Canada's main competition in the women's tournaments at the Pan American Games is expected to come from Cuba's Mirna Hechavaria (67 kg) and Dainellys Montejo (49 kg) and Mexico's Iridia Salazar (57 kg).

A relatively new competitor on the international stage, Hechavaria took home the gold medal at the 2006 Pan American Games Qualification tournament while her compatriot Montejo captured a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championship and was a gold medallist at the 2006 Pan American Games Qualification Tournament. Salazar finished first in her weight class at the 2006 Pan American Games Championship and will be looking to defend her Pan American Games gold medal from 2003.

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It's hard to believe that for all the past and present talent in Canada, the country has never won gold at a Taekwondo World Championships. Well that's no longer true. Quebec's Karine Sergerie smashed the dry spell with a stellar performance at this year's Championships in Beijing, and few could argue that anybody deserves it move than her.

The 2007 Championship was a record-breaker for size with over 1,400 elite athletes and officials from 116 countries in attendance. The event follows Olympic Taekwondo rules with one exception: eight weight divisions are run instead of four, allowing more participants and tighter competition.

The truth is that despite having a very strong Canadian Team this year, Karine was a favourite all along for many Taekwondo fans. She had already collected silver and bronze World Championship medals (2003 and 2005) and had the experience and conviction to win the complete set. But even more amazing than the feat itself was how she accomplished it. After disposing of her first several opponents Sergerie met Korea's Park Hye Mi in the finals. By the end of the second round Karine was losing 0-3, a desperate situation in the best of times, but more so against an experienced opponent of this caliber. "I trusted my coach and kept patient" Karine said of her bout. "Deep down I knew I needed to follow the plan I made before the match and it worked out well." Her aggressive plan worked well enough to tie the score 3-3, sending them to a very tense sudden death which Karine won.

It was another Quebecer that put the men's team on the map. Sebastién Michaud blasted his way onto the Canadian scene two years ago with his first National gold and has been untouchable ever since. In Beijing he won his first three matches but was stopped by USA's Olympic gold medalist Steven Lopez in the quarter-finals, putting Michaud on the podium with a bronze medal. The last time Canada's male team scored a World Championship medal was 14 years ago, a fact that illustrates the extreme level of competition involved.

Other Canadian athletes were stopped just short of the podium. Yvette Yong (Women's Finweight), Courtney Condie (Women's Welterweight), Dasha Peregoudova (Women's Middleweight), and J.F. Lebreux (Men's Lighweight) all placed in the top 8 of their divisions. The outstanding overall performance of our Women's Team placed it third in the team standings. In a related matter it was Canadian Women's Team Coach Jamie Dossantos that received the Best Female Coach Award (best Male Coach went to Spain's Francisco Martin).

The next major event is the 2007 Pan Am Games in Brazil, but all eyes at this point are on the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the Canadian Taekwondo ranking point system Karine Sergerie is firmly in the lead, giving her the greatest chance to qualify her division for the Olympic Games and to ultimately represent Canada there.

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By the third day of competition at the World Championships, Sebatién Michaud has won a bronze in Welterweight after defeating Tonga, Ivory Coast, Australia, and Thailand. He lost in semi-finals to 4-time World Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Steven Lopez (USA).

Dr. Terry Defreitas reports from Beijing:

[Day 2]

Melissa Pagnotta fought against a tough Italian opponent and lost, and Maikol Pinto met Portugual and lost in the last round.

[Day 3]

J.F. Lebreux had several fights and won three, he met Hadi from Iran in the quarter final (World Champion, Olympic gold) J.F. held his own but lost the last round.

Jocelyn Addison had a good day, advancing through 2 fights, but ended up meeting Chinese Tai Pei (World Champion, Olympic Champion).

Ivett Gonda won her first fight and then met up with Spain. She lost in a close match. The Spaniard won gold.

Dasha Peregoudova won against Chinese Tae Pei, then United Emirates. She met Korea in the quarter final. Dasha fought extremely well and was ahead, the Korean went for her head but missed. Then the Korean coach stopped the match and asked for 2 points. The Korean was awarded 2 points and they ended up going into sudden death. The Korean won the sudden death and was in the final, where she got silver.

Sebastién fought extremely well, advancing through the preliminaries, he met Steven Lopez in the semi final. He fought very well against him, but lost the match. BRONZE MEDAL for Canada!

Although at this point we have only one bronze we have made some great advances. We have had 2 women in top 8, one top 8 male, and one bronze.

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After the first day of competition the Canadian contenders put up a great fight but failed to reach the podium. In this prestigious tournament each division is packed with 50 to 60 fighters, each top players and national champions in their own countries.

Team Doctor Terry Defreitas reports from the event:

In Beijing we had a wonderful opening ceremony; starting out with children of Taekwondo, and finishing with aerial sword demonstration, the event was conducted with perfect timing and precision. There is no doubt that China is well on its way in preparing for the 2008 Olympics.

The referees were instructed to call any moving back or holding. Unfortunately Akmal was given a few deductions and it was difficult to keep up with his opponent from Turkey.

Shannon Condie advanced easily through the first and second eliminations. She met Russia in her third fight — it was an exciting one, with a heart breaking loss 12-11.

Yvette Yong made a great debut easily advancing through 2 matches. She met up with USA in the quarter final, USA leading 2-1 in first round. By the beginning of the third round it was 5-3 for Yvette. Charlotte (USA) poured it on and with less than 10 seconds to go, she won 6 to 5. To be perfectly clear though Yvette really fought hard, and had several excellent scoring shots in the third round.

All of our Canadians fought well regardless of the outcome, and tomorrow is another day.

Gold medals went to Gessler Viera Abreu (Cuba - Male Featherweight), Jung Jin-hee (Korea - Female Bantamweight), Wu Jingyu (China - Female Finweight).

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It's been a very long journey for most of them, but all 26 members of the Canadian team arrived safely in China on Saturday. The team is training together in TianJin near Beijing while acclimatizing to the hot weather and shaking off jet lag. The team heads back to Beijing on the 13th for final preparations and to play the big game starting on the 18th.

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In this tournament, the only place that counted was first. There were no medals, and no second place finishers. It was all or nothing, with the winner getting what could be their one and only shot at the Taekwondo World Championships.

It seemed somehow fitting that these World Championship Team Trials were hosted in Ottawa's historic Cartier Square Drill Hall, where Canadian Forces have been doing combat training for over 120 years. With only the top competitors for each weight category allowed to participate, the fighting on April 7 was as intense as it gets. To many competitors this event meant far more than the Canadian National Championships because the Worlds is the top Taekwondo event and happens only every two years — and it's an important step towards making it to the Olympics in 2008.

Fans were not disappointed by the action in Men's Bantamweight! Early on, Bernard Lorde proved beyond a doubt that he was a serious contender by beating Sean Vrtacic (2007 National Champion) in sudden death overtime.

In the next ring, Ali Ghafour was head-to-head with Yannick Lebreux — one of the most anticipated matches of the day (in a recent Combat Canada poll, both fighters were voted equally to win the division). It came down to sudden death where both players gave solid shots, and Ghafour's was scored for the win. After this critical loss Yannick forfeit his remaining matches. Ghafour went on to beat Lorde, and then Vrtacic (9-2) making him the undefeated winner and recipient of a ticket to Beijing.

Ghafour says about his performance:

I like to keep my opponents guessing all the time so having both a strong left and right leg allows me to change up my game and keep them guessing. My division had some really excellent and proven players: Yannick — Jr. World Champion and National Team Member, Sean — Jr. World Bronze Medalist, and Bernard — a fellow team mate and rising competitor. I have competed against all of them in my division before, but in Taekwondo anything can happen. In addition to knowing my opponents, it was even more important for me to prepare mentally as well as continuing my physical training. All these factors combined helps me be consistent in my results and feel 100% ready.

My goal for the World Championships (along with Pan Am Games) is to medal. This will be in line with my other goals this year and continue to put me further up in the running for the Olympic Qualifiers and thus Olympic Games.

Yannick's brother J.F. Lebreux had better luck in lightweight division. J.F. (six-time Senior National Champion) sought retribution for his sudden death loss to Chris Iliesco at the 2007 Nationals which cost him the title — and got it, hands down. A much bigger challenge was Chris Hodgins, who gave J.F. so many injuries during the match that it looked like he'd win by default. But J.F. came back in the last 30 seconds with a series of explosive combinations which took the match, and ultimately the division.

Everyone was wondering if four-time Korean National Champion Joo-han Cha would defeat two-time Canadian National Champion Sébastien Michaud. Cha won every other match that day but Michaud stayed focused and won in a tense sudden death round. Michaud could be a real force at the World Championships; his style is simple, but his timing and distance is superb.

All eyes were on Ivett Gonda's rematch with Annie-Pier Turcott in Female Flyweight. Gonda (2004 Olympian) was hampered by injury and denied gold by Turcott at the 2007 Canadian Nationals. This time — a month later — Gonda was recovered and back on top of her game, having little trouble beating Turcott 7-4 and making the Canadian team.

The biggest upset of the day was in Middleweight where experienced players Radomir Samardzic and François Coulombe-Fortier both lost in sudden death to Manitoba's Michael Kitschke. Kitschke will be the only member who hasn't been on the official Canadian Team before.

The individual Team Members will be training vigorously for the next three weeks until they depart on May 4 for Beijing (coaches and team management have not yet been officially announced). The five-day tournament kicks off May 18.

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The Taekwondo World Championship is happening in May and Canada needs to send a team. Only the country's top black belt competitors are invited to fight for a spot at the Team Trials next weekend (April 7) in Ottawa.

This elite tournament will deliver some of those closest and fastest Taekwondo matches in Canadian history and is a must-see for any Taekwondo fan or student. Each of the 16 (8 male and 8 female) divisions compete in round-robin format, so unlike the National Championships (which are single-elimination), every fighter will face every other in their division. Only the day's best fighters win a spot on Team Canada and a ticket to Beijing this May.

Men's Bantamweight is the division to watch; here's the lineup:

Ali Ghafour (Ontario)

Sean Vrtacic (British Columbia)

Yannick Lebreux (Quebec)

Bernard Lorde (Ontario)
The fourth and final Bantam contender, Bernard is the least experienced and is not favoured to win this year. Yannick beat Bernard 10-3 at the last Canadian Championships — but in Taekwondo, anything can happen...

Other hot divisions:

Female Fly: Olympian Ivett Gonda (BC) seeks retribution for her sudden death loss to Annie-Pier Turcotte (QC) that left her in 2nd place at the last Canadian Championships.

Men's Welter: Sebastien Michaud (QC) is hot lately but faces a rematch with Joo-Han Cha (AB), who lost a fierce 4-3 fight with Michaud at the Canadian Championships.

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In a fast-action sport like Taekwondo, no athlete can afford to rest on their laurels. The 2007 Canadian Championships in Montreal this weekend proved that hard-won national titles can be lost with a single kick — or with only the luck of the draw.

For the past four years Ivett Gonda has been a fixture on the podium's top spot, so it raised more than a few brows to see her defeated by Quebec's Annie-Pier Turcott in the flyweight finals. Turcott has been hot on Gonda's heels for some time and was glowing with confidence from her recent gold medal performance at the U.S. Open.

In the turbulent Bantamweight division the final came down to Ontario's Ali Ghafour vs. B.C.'s Sean Vrtacic. In just his second year in Seniors (17+ years), Sean fought Ali to sudden death overtime and after several fast exchanges was scored the winning point for gold.

The favoured lightweight J.F. Lebreux arrived to the game injured and was ultimately outplayed by fellow Quebecer Chris Iliesco in sudden death — a fantastic result for Iliesco who has never placed nationally, but has now earned a spot at the World Championship Team Trials this April in Ottawa.

An early upset for Ontario was Akmal Farah's tense match with Quebec's Evangelos Lygeros. Lygeros is an experienced and passionate competitor who fully used his counter-attack skills to keep control of this match. Lygeros was later defeated by the rapid-fire style of Adam Phamhung. In the end, B.C.'s Kevin Yang took the featherweight gold.

Male middleweight saw François Coulombe-Fortier recapture the title from 2006 Champion Radomir Samardzic. Newfoundland heavyweight Reginald Lawrence beat Olivier Pineau and then took an early lead on three-time national champion Eric Ahn, but had to settle for silver in the end.

Maybe the most entertaining matches were delivered by Master Ashley Castaneda (a World Championship and Pan-American medallist) who returned to challenge the current lightweights some 20 years his junior. Castaneda's legendary spirit showed strong as he had no trouble questioning the referees' calls, and the refs had no trouble penalizing him for it. Castaneda was beat in the quarter-finals by 2006 Silver medallist Chris Hodgins.

This game's MVP Award was well-deserved by both B.C.'s Yvette Yong (I'd rather fight a rabid pit bull than this girl), and Sébastien Michaud who cleaned up in welterweight for the second year straight and recently won gold at the U.S. Open.

And which provincial team took the most gold? Combat Canada readers predicted that Quebec would win over Ontario (34.2% and 28.8% of voters respectively). While Quebec certainly placed strong, Team Ontario narrowly won with seven gold medals, followed by Quebec with six and British Columbia with three.

If you're wondering when the National pattern competition happened… it didn't. Seniors Poomsae will find a home in the Canadian Hanmadang Games starting this year. Poomsae will remain an event in the Junior Canadian Championships, which happen this June in New Brunswick.

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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:

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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.

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The results are in and Canada has a new Taekwondo team for the Pan Am Games:

The top spots were hard won after a two-day tournament in Toronto. Saturday was an open single elimination tournament. Only the two finalists from each division qualified for Sunday, where they would face even tougher competition — the fighters who actually qualified the Pan Am weight division back in October (check out "Mission Accomplished for Qualifier Team"), and any 2007 Olympic Carded athletes in that division.

Sunday's round-robin format allowed each athlete to fight every other in their division, making many very close and exciting matches. The Pan American Games take place this July in Rio de Janeiro. Taekwondo has been a Pan-Am Game sport since 1987.

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The dust has settled after four days of intense competition, and one team is left standing tall. The team that traveled the farthest to this Pan Am Championship in Argentina also took home the most gold, and a number of other titles to boot.

Canada not only took more gold, but way more gold: six big ones compared to Brazil and Mexico with three each, and the U.S.A. with two. Along with our four bronze medals, Canada tied with team U.S.A. in total medal count, at ten each.

Overall, our Women's Team was ranked number one, and our Men's Team finished third. The star of the Women's Team was undoubtedly Quebec's Karine Sergerie, who won all her matches without a single point scored against her, and was presented the event's Women's MVP award. While Sergerie and three others (Gonda, Bosshart and Peregoudova) managed a perfect score at the 2006 Canadian Nationals, doing it at a major international competition is a very rare accomplishment.

Two other awards recognized some of the accomplished officials that make these kinds of results possible; Master Raymond Mourad of Montreal was awarded Best Coach, and Master Barbara Marian of Cobourg Ontario was awarded Best Female Referee.

Although Team Canada also scored ten total medals in the last Pan Ams, the solitary gold in 2004 went to Ivett Gonda (Fin), and silver to Eric Ahn (Heavy). This year's results are in fact the best we've seen in 16 years, since the 7th Pan American Championships in 1990. At that time our Men's team placed first overall and our Women's third, with a total of 4 gold medals.

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Canadian Taekwondo athletes have once again proved their world-class status, this time at the 15^th World Hanmadang Games in Korea held November 1-4.

The Hanmadang tests skills other than sparring, including poomsae (patterns), hoshinsool (self-defense), and kyukpa (breaking). It's one of the largest and most structured martial art event of its kind, this year attracting 3,400 competitors from over 60 countries.

The nine-person Canadian team finished 1^st in Senior Men Jumping High Kick, 2^nd in Junior Men Jumping High Kick, 4^th in team Hanmadang, 9^th in Hoshinsool, and 10^th in Creative Poomse. This is the highest result of any non-Korean team, according to Grand Master Jae Park of Winnipeg, who placed first in the Senior High Kick.

The team also made big news in the Korean media when Ms. Tiana Collins became the first female ever to compete in a men's power breaking division. Coach Master McLaughlin reports these results come despite having only two weeks of team practice, which began when Master McLaughlin flew to Edmonton to teach his Hanmadang routine to team members at the Grand Master K.H. Min Taekwondo Dojang. Four of McLaughlin's student's from Woo Kim Langley Tae Kwon Do in B.C. competed on the team, including Tiana who also fought for team B.C. at the 2006 Senior Nationals.

Sixteen-year-old Derek Graham placed second in Junior High Kick where competitors attempt to break a board with a jumping kick, and if successful move to the next round with a higher board. According to the Winnipeg Sun:

Graham ended up tied with the eventual winner in his division when they both missed their kicks. But instead of the usual tie-breaking formula of giving it to Graham as the shorter competitor, the pair were allowed to continue kicking with the winner breaking the board while Graham did not.

Despite the unexpected decision, Grand Master Jae Park says of his student:

He's a true competitor. His attitude was, 'The rules say one thing but my opponent broke it and I didn't so he won.' That's a great attitude to have.

Master McLaughlin attributes the team's success to the caliber of its athletes and management:

A special thank-you must go out to Grand Master Jong Lee (B.C.), Grand Master Suh (B.C.), Grand Master Min (Alberta) and Grand Master Park (Manitoba) for all of their help. Personally I would like to thank all players for all of their hard work and dedication to Taekwondo and it was an honor to represent Canada at the World Championships with them.

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Male Pan Am Championship Team
Maikol Pinto (ON) Fin	Jocelyn Addison (QC) Fly
Ali Ghafour (ON) Bantam	Akmal Farah (ON) Feather
J.F. Lebreux (QC) Light	Sebastien Michaud (QC) Welter
Francois Coulombe -Fortier (QC) Middle	Eric Ahn (ON) Heavy

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Due to a requirement of the Pan Am Games Organizing Committee and PATU that we must register our team for the Pan Am Games by February 1, 2007 we have been forced to switch the Pan Am Team Trials to Toronto on January 14-15, 2007 and move Senior Nationals to Montreal on March 3-4, 2007....

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Along with nine gold medals, four other official distinctions were earned:

Other notable accomplishments were made by Natalie Simon, who along wit