Our Junior Athlete Aaditya Kadam travelled to Madrid, Spain and participated at the Hankuk Winter Training Camp held from 26-30 December 2019 facilitated by Hankuk Head Instructor and Coach Jesus Ramal, Finland Olympian Suvi Mikonnen and some of the best coaches in Europe with guest coaches from Iran and other countries.
This was a fantastic opportunity for Aaditya to train with Europe's and some of the world's best Juniors and Cadet taekwondo athletes.
The international training camp has provided Aaditya additional exposure and intensive training program and has kept him fit and strong during the holidays.
An excellent preparation for the upcoming Australian National Team Selections for the World Junior Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria in October 2020.
Well done Aaditya!!!
What a great result and show of team camaraderie at the 2019 Sydney Taekwondo Championships held at Blacktown Leisure Centre on 20 October 2019. Everyone had fun and learned from the experience.
Congratulations and well done to Team Taya with our 15 athletes bringing home a total medal tally of 25 medals - 14 Golds, 8 Silvers, 3 Bronzes with some doing experimental matches and secondary divisions as part of our training and development program. Notable performances from our double Gold Medallists Chelsea Gomez, Alec MacGowan and Ayaan Shetty who won both of their divisions.
Thank you to our dedicated, passionate coaches Ms Natalia, Sir Ed and Miss Abby and our developmental coach Ms Ysabella and to our supportive parents.
It was a resounding success achieved by Team Taya Athletes at the NSW State Championship and Selections Event for the upcoming Nationals with total medal tally of 20 from our 17 young athletes with 18 from sparring and 2 from poomsae - 14 Golds, 4 Silvers, 2 Bronzes. 15 have qualified and will be contesting the Nationals at the Gold Coast from 6-8 September 2019.
Notable performances were our double Gold Medallist Chelsea Gomez, Sofia Querubin, Shreyas Gurelli, Evangeline De Guzman and Jade MacGowan who have won their fights in a dominant fashion with gap scores or stopping the match early in first/second rounds. Not in team photo - Evangeline, Ethan and Shirin, shown with their own photos. Thank you to our dedicated coaches for bringing the best out of the athletes and supportive parents for your encouragement.
Gold Medalists and National Champions
Silver Medalists
Bronze Medalists
Team Taya had a wonderful weekend at the Gold Coast and has delivered a medal haul of 8 Golds, 3 Silvers, 3 Bronzes from our 14 young athletes.
This was achieved through hard work, dedication, focus, team camaraderie, intensive training, competition experience, guidance from our passionate coaches and support from the parents.
A fantastic and consistent result matching last year’s performance!!! Congratulations Team Taya!
Thank you to the coaches for your passion in bringing the best out of the athletes and to the parents for your unwavering support and encouragement.
Well done everyone!!!
Notable performances were from our consistent National Champions Sofia Querubin, Aaditya Kadam, Shreyas Gurelli winning in dominant gap or near gap scores and Ethan De Guzman for winning all 4 fights to win Gold at his first Nationals. Medal tally as follows:
GOLD
Sofia Querubin
Aaditya Kadam
Shreyas Gurelli
Jade MacGowan
Evangeline De Guzman
Ethan De Guzman
Ayaan Shetty
Joshua Tollens
SILVER
Ysabella Querubin
Chelsea Gomez
Shirin Kattukaran
BRONZE
Saachi Sharma
Alec MacGowan
Saanvi and Saachi Sharma - Family Poomsae
PARTICIPATED
Aarav Kadam
UNCONTESTED
Diego Querubin
Our cadet and junior athletes fought at Australian Open straight after the Oceania President Cup bringing home 1 Gold, 1 Silver 1 Bronze medals and a massive learning experience to help improve their court management, defensive tactics and game strategies to assist with their preparations for the Korea competition tour as part of Taya Taekwondo's Training and Development Program where they will compete at the Korea Open in Chuncheon and Kimunyong Cup International Open from 2-18 July 2019.
Sofia Querubin - continued on her winning form with nearly massive gap scores in all three fights and coming home with a Gold Medal and crowned Australian Open Champion
1st Preliminary match vs same QLD opponent with score of 18-5
2nd Semi finals match vs VIC opponent with gap score of 29-8
3rd Finals match vs Vietnam opponent with massive gap score of 34-10! An exceptional performance showing maturity beyond her years.
Aaditya Kadam - fought in closely contested match vs Hong Kong national team member settling for Silver with score of 19-25. Aaditya dug deep to even scores in next second and third rounds after first round result 0-9 and just lost in last 10 seconds of the match and will need to work on his defensive tactics.
Ysabella Querubin - fought hard and settled for Bronze against same Japanese opponent with score of 2-10 and will need to work on accuracy and technical strategies.
