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Karate Canada – August 29th 2016 – Guayaquil, Ecuador – Canada’s junior national karate team is celebrating its strong showing at the 2016 Cadet & Junior Pan American Championships, held in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from August 24th-28th, 2016. A total of 62 Junior National Team Roster athletes (accompanied by 4 National Team Coaches, 13 officials, a medical staff person, a Team Manager and Karate Canada’s President) competed over the four days, achieving a best-ever result at this event for Karate Canada. This year also marks the first time athletes in the Under 14 age category have represented Canada at this annual event.

Canadian female kumite athletes earned three gold medals in Guayaquil: Megan Rochette (U14 +45kg) division, Melissa Bratic (Junior +59kg), and Camélie Boisvenue (U21 +68kg). Bronze medal finishes included Melissa Chan (Junior -48 kg), Darbyanh Heenan (Junior -53kg), Laurence Morin and Trysten Deveau (U21 -55kg), and Hana and Lisa Furumoto-Deshaies (U21 -61kg). Fifth-place finishes include Layan Haouaoui (U14 +45kg) and Isabel Chan (U21 -50kg); finishing in seventh place were Cassidy Stuckless and Florence Moffett (U14 -45kg), as well as Sachreet Dhillon (Cadet -47kg). Deveau, H. Furumoto-Deshaies, I. Chan and Boisvenue also took the bronze medal in the U21 female team kumite event.

Male kumite athletes also performed very well. Maxym-Oliver Rivest (Junior +76kg) won a silver medal, while bronze medals were earned by Isaiah Ingram (U14 -45kg), Nathaniel Besso (U21 -60kg), and Alexandre-Benjamin Rivest (U21 +84kg).  Finishing in fifth place were Alexander Cumming (U14 -50kg), Riley Deveau (Cadet -57kg), Gari Zipenco (Junior -55kg), and Nicolas Patrick Rivest (U21 -75kg). In seventh place were Benjamin Moffett (Cadet -63kg), Derek Joyal (Cadet -70kg), Jean-Christophe Rouleau (Cadet +70kg), and Amr Fahmy (Junior +76kg); Sunny Heer (Cadet -52kg) placed 9th.  Finally, in the U21 male team kumite division, A.-B. Rivest, N.P. Rivest, Besso, and Alexandre St-Arneault placed 5th.

In kata, Amelie Del Rosario received a bronze medal in the Junior U14 Female category, and Léa Morin placed 7th in the same category, while Marissa Meandro placed 7th in the Cadet Female category. Claudia Laos-Loo also finished in 7th place in the U21 Female category.
 

Over the course of the week, Canadian athletes earned fifteen medals as part of a total of thirty-two top-ten finishes in both kata and kumite, including three gold medals, for the first time in Karate Canada’s history. While this tournament concludes the 2016 competitive season for the Junior National Team program, a number of young karate athletes have their long-term sights set on the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

 

“The sustained progress of our Junior National Team results over the last few years is very encouraging, especially in light of karate having recently announced as an Olympic sport” says Mr. Olivier Pineau, Karate Canada’s Executive Director. “It’s of course the result of a vast team effort, from athletes and their parents to club and provincial team coaches, officials, administrators as well as National Team Coaches. We’re definitely on the right path, and the future looks bright for Canadian karate.”

About Karate Canada:

Karate Canada is a not-for-profit corporation constituted under Part II of the Canada Corporations Act, with the objective of describing and incorporating all activities related to the promotion, organization, regulation and popularization of the sport of karate all over Canada, of protecting the physical and emotional health of athletes, and of promoting the interests of karate throughout Canada. Karate Canada and its 10 member Provincial and Territorial Associations assemble roughly 16,000 participants nationwide. Furthermore, Karate Canada is a proud member of the Canadian Olympic Committee, the World Karate Federation and the Pan American Karate Federation. See more at www.karatecanada.org.