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Jul 16, 2013 Sports
The tenth Caribbean Karate Championships were staged over the weekend at the Barbados Community College Gymnasium in Howell, St. Michael, Barbados beginning on Saturday and ending on Sunday with teams representing Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago participating.
Attending the opening ceremony and events were a number of senior International Karate Daigaku officials including the Chairman and Chief Instructor, Kancho Frank Woon-a-Tai M.S., 9th Degree Black Belt, Deputy Chief Instructor Shihan Dr. Dexter Shim 8th Degree Black Belt and Shihan Alice Bernstein 7th Degree Black Belt among others.
The event, which is the premier event in the Caribbean for Shotokan Karate, encompassed actions such as Individual Kumite (fighting), Kata (form), team Enbu, Bunkai, and Kata.
The Guyana Karate College won the coveted trophy for the best performances in the junior divisions of the tournament, whilst Barbados won in the senior divisions.
Once again the GKC kept the Golden Arrowhead flying high, copping the most medals with the exception of Team Barbados who brought first, and were led by excellent performances in the girls division by Hanna Farina, Rebecca & Rachel Ramlall, Tashana Wong, Alyssa Persaud, and Alliyah Wong, Christy Dey, Mickelly Rahaman and Ashley Seeram, whilst in the ladies category Kerry Ramkumar, Claire Cheeks, Nikita Clark and Jennifer Rameshwar copped gold, silver and bronze medals, whilst in the boys division successes came from Tyler Orderson, John McGrath & Antoine Herod, Yannick Rameshwar, Mark Wong & Michael Hing, Carlos Gonsalves, Desmond Fernandes & Otto Harris. In the male category Eric Hing, Romel Rameshwar and Mathew Hurry, Aubrey Bettencourt, Kenrick Cheeks, Medishari Ramdhani being triumphant and coming in with gold, silver and bronze medals.
Senior Instructor and Vice Chairman of the GKC Sensei Jeffrey Wong expressed considerable satisfaction with the team’s performance at the Caribbean Championships, maintaining the very high standards of karate particularly the younger karatekas whom he considers to be the underpinning of the present and future of the College.
He was pleased with the tenacity and the perseverance shown by the charges under him, overcoming a number of challenges faced, including being able to arrive in Barbados mere hours before the commencement of the tournament.
The team now look forward to participating in the Guyana Cup Karate tournament slated for November of this year in Georgetown.
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