TOTAL TKD students Carly Wilson, Nathan Smith, Laura Jones, Maia Harrison,Troy Sampath, Joe Digweed & Nicholas Ray have all returned from the ITF World championships in Germany after a great week and some superb performances. The highlight of the week was seeing both Laura and Maia both earning medal in the Junior 3rd degree Patterns category, Laura won bronze narrowly missing out on a place in the final and Maia won Silver losing 3-2 in the final against Argentina. These two medals represent a milestone in TTKD history and the 1st students to earn individual medals at World level and 1st students to have won those medals in the same category.
Other notable achievements were from Nicholas & Joe competing at their first world championships. Nicholas showed his composure and strength of character under pressure to comeback from being 4 nil down in his match to nearly pulling of a win against a much bigger opponent in his individual fight and Joe won his first fight and narrowly was beaten in his second fight. All the signs are there to suggest that both competitors will be winning International medals in the future.
As part of the Men's Patterns team Nathan and Troy won bronze in the team Pattern category, with Nathan getting through a couple of rounds in senior 3rd degree patterns, nearly doing enough to get into the medals.
Disappointingly in her last world championships Carly missed out on the medals, she competed individually in 4th degree patterns and captained the ladies team and in both events was just short of getting into the medal positions.
Well done to you all.